Nah, Bruce, yours is a great list, only small additions necessary.
Patrick
On Dec 19, 2008, at 2:36 PM, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
D'oh! How could I miss that one? And I LOVE Powell and Pressburger
movies!
I also left off 'I Know Where I'm Going!', which is an absolutely
PERFECT romance!
D'oh, D'oh!
Bruce
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:33 PM, bqjansen <w...@bqjansen.demon.nl>
wrote:
I will vote Bruce, but only if you add the romance that defeated
heaven. I mean of course David Niven and Kim Hunter in A Matter Of
Life And Death.
Wim
Op 19 dec 2008, om 23:29 heeft Bruce Hershenson het volgende
geschreven:
This week, I am running a poll in my weekly e-mail club, asking
about the members' personal choice for the best on-screen romantic
pairing ever in one movie EVER!
Here is how I presented this to my e-mail club (4,800 members). I
thought some of you here might enjoy seeing the list, and that
some of you might want to make your choice known, or add a choice
that is NOT on my list (of course, if you want your vote to count,
and you want a chance to win a set of 23 full-color books, you
have to vote in the club itself!).
Here is what I wrote:
"A great romantic movie has a lead couple where you completely
believe that they belong together, both in the movie, and in real
life (and often, such couples go on to actually BE together in
real life!). In this poll, we are looking for the romantic couple
in one specific movie that YOU feel was the absolute single BEST
romantic pairing of any movie you have ever seen! Note that, in
the case of couples who appeared together in several movies, we
have usually picked only one of their movies as a poll choice
(although you are welcome to vote for a different one), and we
have specifically OMITTED "love triangles" (such as The
Philadelphia Story, Jules and Jim, and The Unbearable Lightness of
Being), but only those where there is a somewhat "equal" element
to the triangle (not where there is one person who clearly is
going to be excluded from the triangle!). Of course, there is an
endless number of such movies, and we almost surely have omitted
many wonderful choices, so please in no way restrict yourself to
our poll choices, which are just there to jog your memory!
As always, our main goal is to provide people with a list of
wonderful movies they may have never seen, but should strongly
consider adding to their "must see" list. Please vote for one of
the options below, and give your reasoning for why you voted as
you did.
Adam's Rib (Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn)
Affair to Remember (Cary Grant/Deborah Kerr)
African Queen (Humphrey Bogart/Katharine Hepburn)
Algiers (Charles Boyer/Hedy Lamarr)
Amelie (Audrey Tautou/Mathieu Kassovitz)
American Graffiti (Charles Martin Smith/Candy Clark)
Annie Hall (Woody Allen/Diane Keaton)
As Good As It Gets (Jack Nicolson/Helen Hunt)
Awful Truth (Cary Grant/Irene Dunne)
Ball of Fire (Gary Cooper/Barbara Stanwyck)
Before Sunrise (Ethan Hawke/Julie Delpy)
Bishop's Wife (Cary Grant/Loretta Young)
Bodyguard (Kevin Costner/Whitney Houston)
Bonnie and Clyde (Warren Beatty/Faye Dunaway)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (George Peppard/Audrey Hepburn)
Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood/Meryl Streep)
Bridget Jones's Diary (Hugh Grant/Renee Zellweger)
Brief Encounter (Trevor Howard/Celia Johnson)
Bringing Up Baby (Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn)
Brokeback Mountain (Heath Ledger/Jake Gyllenhaal)
Camille (Robert Taylor/Greta Garbo)
Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart/Ingrid Bergman)
City for Conquest (James Cagney/Ann Sheridan)
City Lights (Charlie Chaplin/Virginia Cherrill)
Clock (Robert Walker/Judy Garland)
Crying Game (Stephen Rea/Jaye Davidson)
Dirty Dancing (Patrick Swayze/Jennifer Grey)
Doctor Zhivago (Omar Sharif/Julie Christie)
Dodsworth (Walter Huston/Mary Astor)
Double Indemnity (Fred MacMurray/Barbara Stanwyck)
Edward Scissorhands (Johnny Depp/Winona Ryder)
English Patient (Ralph Fiennes/Juliette Binoche)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Gary Cooper/Ingrid Bergman)
From Here to Eternity (Burt Lancaster/Deborah Kerr)
From Here to Eternity (Montgomery Clift/Donna Reed)
Ghost (Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore)
Gone With the Wind (Clark Gable/Vivien Leigh)
Goodbye Girl (Richard Dreyfuss/Marsha Mason)
Grease (John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John)
Guys and Dolls (Marlon Brando/Jean Simmons)
Harold and Maude (Bud Cort/Ruth Gordon)
His Girl Friday (Cary Grant/Rosalind Russell)
Holiday Affair (Robert Mitchum/Janet Leigh)
It Happened One Night (Clark Gable/Claudette Colbert)
Jerry MaGuire (Tom Cruise/Renee Zellweger)
King and I (Yul Brynner/Deborah Kerr)
King Kong (King Kong/Fay Wray)
La Belle et la Bete (Jean Marais/Josette Day)
Lady and the Tramp (Tramp/Lady)
Longtime Companion (Bruce Davidson/Mark Lamos)
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (William Holden/Jennifer Jones)
Love Me Tonight (Maurice Chevalier/Jeanette MacDonald)
Love Story (Ryan O'Neal/Ali MacGraw)
Love With the Proper Stranger (Steve McQueen/Natalie Wood)
Man and a Woman (Jean-Louis Trintignant/Anouk Aimee)
Marty (Ernest Borgnine/Betsy Blair)
Maytime (Nelson Eddy/Jeanette MacDonald)
More the Merrier (Joel McCrea/Jean Arthur)
Morocco (Gary Cooper/Marlene Dietrich)
Moulin Rogue (Ewan McGregor/Nicole Kidman)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Gary Cooper/Jean Arthur)
Mr. Lucky (Cary Grant/Laraine Day)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (James Stewart/Jean Arthur)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (John Corbett/Nia Vardalos)
My Cousin Vinny (Joe Pesci/Marisa Tomei)
My Fair Lady (Rex Harrison/Audrey Hepburn)
My Man Godfrey (William Powell/Carole Lombard)
Notorious (Cary Grant/Ingrid Bergman)
Now, Voyager (Paul Henreid/Bette Davis)
Officer and a Gentleman (Richard Gere/Debra Winger)
Out of Africa (Robert Redford/Meryl Streep)
Palm Beach Story (Joel McCrea/Claudette Colbert)
Pat and Mike (Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn)
Pepe Le Moko (Jean Gabin/Mireille Balin)
Pillow Talk (Rock Hudson/Doris Day)
Plainsman (Gary Cooper/Jean Arthur)
Postman Always Rings Twice (John Garfield/Lana Turner)
Pretty Woman (Richard Gere/Julia Roberts)
Princess Bride (Cary Elwes/Robin Wright)
Queen Christina (John Gilbert/Greta Garbo)
Quiet Man (John Wayne/Maureen O'Hara)
Rebel Without a Cause (James Dean/Natalie Wood)
Red Dust (Clark Gable/Jean Harlow)
Rocky (Sylvester Stallone/Talia Shire)
Roman Holiday (Gregory Peck/Audrey Hepburn)
Romeo + Juliet (Leonardo DiCaprio/Claire Danes)
Roxanne (Steve Martin/Daryl Hannah)
Say Anything (John Cusack/Ione Skye)
Sabrina (Humphrey Bogart/Audrey Hepburn)
Saturday Night Fever (John Travolta/Karen Lynn Gorney)
Secretary (James Spader/Maggie Gyllenhaal)
Sheik (Rudolph Valentino/Agnes Ayres)
Shop Around the Corner (James Stewart/Margaret Sullavan)
Sid & Nancy (Gary Oldman/Chloe Webb)
Singin' In The Rain (Gene Kelly/Debbie Reynolds)
Sleepless in Seattle (Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan)
Some Like It Hot (Tony Curtis/Marilyn Monroe)
Some Like It Hot (Joe E. Brown/Jack Lemmon)
Somewhere in Time (Christopher Reeve/Jane Seymour)
South Pacific (Rossano Brazzi/Mitzi Gaynor)
Splash (Tom Hanks/Darryl Hannah)
Splendor in the Grass (Warren Beatty/Natalie Wood)
Star is Born (James Mason/Judy Garland)
Strictly Ballroom (Paul Mercurio/Tara Morice)
Sullivan's Travels (Joel McCrea/Veronica Lake)
Summer Place (Troy Donahue/Sandra Dee)
Summertime (Rossano Brazzi/Katharine Hepburn)
Sunset Blvd. (William Holden/Gloria Swanson)
Swing Time (Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers)
Thief of Bagdad (John Justin/June Duprez)
Thin Man (William Powell/Myrna Loy)
Titanic (Leonardo DiCaprio/Kate Winslet)
To Have and Have Not (Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall)
Top Gun (Tom Cruise/Kelly McGillis)
Trouble In Paradise (Herbert Marshall/Kay Francis)
Two for the Road (Albert Finney/Audrey Hepburn)
Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Nino Castelnuovo/Catherine Deneuve)
Untamed Heart (Christian Slater/Marisa Tomei)
Vertigo (James Stewart/Kim Novak)
Way We Were (Robert Redford/Barbara Streisand)
Wedding Singer (Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore)
West Side Story (Richard Beymer/Natalie Wood)
When a Man Loves a Woman (Andy Garcia/Meg Ryan)
When Harry Met Sally (Billy Crystal/Meg Ryan)
While You Were Sleeping (Bill Pullman/Sandra Bullock)
Wuthering Heights (Laurence Olivier/Merle Oberon)
Year of Living Dangerously (Mel Gibson/Sigourney Weaver)
You've Got Mail (Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan)
Other (PLEASE be sure to explain WHY you chose this option).
So, MoPo members, what's YOUR personal choice for the best on-
screen romantic pairing ever in one movie?
Bruce
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