What about Kim Novak and William Holden in Picnic?
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Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:47:40 -0800From: fly...@pacbell.netsubject: Re:
[MOPO] OT: YOUR opinion of the best on-screen romantic pairing ever in one
movie?To: mop...@sol03.american.edu
McCrae & Lake - Sullivan's Travels
From: Bruce Hershenson <brucehershen...@gmail.com>To:
mop...@sol03.american.edusent: Friday, December 19, 2008 2:29:55 PMSubject:
[MOPO] OT: YOUR opinion of the best on-screen romantic pairing ever in one
movie?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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