Classic Movie Suggestions
- Carousel (1956): starring Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae and Cameron Mitchell. Billy is sent down "from above" for one day to try and make amends for mistakes he made in life. Billy worked at the carnival running the carousel, which is where he met Julie.
- D-Day, the Sixth of June (1956) : starring Robert Taylor and Richard Todd. These two gentlemen pine over the same woman on the way to invade France.
- The Diary of Anne Frank (1959): based on the true story of Jews hiding from the German army in Amsterdam during World War II.
- The Dirty Dozen (1967): This movie, starring Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes, and Donald Sutherland, tells the story of condemned soldiers on a suicide mission.
- The Fighting Seabees (1944): Starring John Wayne, it is the story of the fighting construction workers of the Pacific Theater.
- The Flying Leathernecks (1951): John Wayne leads U.S. aviators into the battle of Guadalcanal.
- Flying Tigers (1942): John Wayne leads a group of American pilots fighting for the Chinese before their entry into World War II.
- From Here to Eternity (1953): Starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, and Frank Sinatra. This story is set in Hawaii and tells the story just before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
- The Ghost & Mr. Chicken (1966 ): A typesetter (Don Knotts) for a small town newspaper pursues his dream of becoming a big-time reporter by spending a night in an alleged haunted house
- Grease (1978): Starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. The friendships, romances, and adventures of a group of high school kids in the 1950s. The closing scenes take place at a Fair.
- Grumpy Old Men (1993 ): Starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau and Ann-Margret. A lifelong feud between two neighbors since childhood, only gets worse when a new female neighbor moves across the street.
- Grumpier Old Men (1995) : Sequel to “Grumpy Old Men”Things don't seem to change much in Wabasha County: Max and John are still fighting after 35 years, Grandpa still drinks, smokes, and chases women , and nobody's been able to catch the fabled "Catfish Hunter," a gigantic catfish that actually smiles at fishermen who try to snare it.
- Gung Ho (1943): Tells the story directly after Pearl Harbor.
- The Guns of Navarone (1961): Starring Gregory Peck, the main character leads a group of commandos on a mission to destroy German guns. This movie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
- Heavens Knows, Mr. Allison (1957): Stars Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum. Tells the story of a nun stuck on a South Pacific island with a World War II soldier.
- I Was a Male War Bride (1949): Starring Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan. They are an international couple (he is French and she is American) who must cope with the trials of marriage after she is transferred to the United States.
- The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964): Starring Don Knotts, Carole Cook and Jack Weston. Milquetoast Henry Limpet experiences his fondest wish and is transformed into a fish. As a talking fish he assists the US Navy in hunting German submarines during World War II.
- In Harm’s Way (1965): Starring John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, and Patricia Neal. The story of a love triangle immediately following Pearl Harbor.
- The Longest Day (1962): This movie tells the story of the Normandy invasion. Stars John Wayne, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, and Rod Steiger.
- Ma & Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952): Starring Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride. Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson.
- Meet Me at the Fair (1953): Starring Dan Dailey, Dianna Lynn, Chet Allen and Scatman Crothers.In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad conditions (the result of political graft) are being investigated by new appointee Zerelda Wing, who doesn't know that her fiancée is one of the politicians responsible.
- Meet Me In St. Louis (1944): Starring Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, and Mary Aster. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. 17-year-old Esther has fallen in love with the boy next door who has just moved in, John. The family is shocked when Mr. Smith reveals that he has been transferred to a new position in New York, which means that the family has to leave St. Louis and the St. Louis Fair.
- Midway (1976): Starring Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, and Robert Mitchum, this movies creates one the most crucial naval battles of World War II.
- Mister Roberts (1955): Starring Jack Lemmon, Henry Fonda, James Cagney, and William Powell. Mister Roberts is aboard a US cargo ship, working in the Pacific during the Second World War. He'd do anything to leave the quiet of the ship to join in the "action." Trouble is, the captain of the ship, is a bit of a tyrant, and isn't willing to sign Roberts' transfer requests.
- The Music Man (1962): Starring Robert Preston, Shirley Jones and Buddy Hackett. A con man comes to a Midwestern town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.
- My Fair Lady (1964): Starring Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway and Wilfrid Hyde-White. Henry Higgins is a Professor of languages and a rather snobbish and arrogant man. A visiting colleague, Colonel Pickering, makes him a bet that he can't take a "commoner" and turn her into someone who would not be completely out of place in the social circles of upper-class English society.
- Oklahoma (1955): Starring Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson and Charlotte Greenwood. A couple of young cowboys win the hearts of their sweethearts in the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the century.
- The Seven Little Foys (1955): Starring Bob Hope and Mille Vitale Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine. While they continue to tour the circuit, they begin a family and before long have seven little Foys to clutter the wings.
- Singin’ in the Rain (1952 ): Starring Gene Kelly Donald O’Connor and Debbie Reynolds In 1927, Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are a famous on-screen romantic pair. Lina, however, mistakes the on-screen romance for real love.
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