Contributing Editor: KATIE CONNOLLY

CONTRIBUTIONS: 9 Performers: Ronald Colman, Joseph Cotten, Bette Davis, Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Basil Rathbone, Rosalind Russell, Peter Sellers, Orson Welles;
3 Favorites Lists: Katie Connolly's CLEAN, CLEVER, INTELLIGENT AND WITTY COMEDY, Katie Connolly's COMEDY CHOICES, Katie Connolly's TEN FILMS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

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LOCATION: New Jersey, U.S.A.

WRITTEN LANGUAGES: English

INTERESTS: Classic Movies of course, Oldies and Classical Music, Collecting, Reading, Shopping

FAVORITE MOVIES: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), American Graffiti (1973), Ben-Hur (1959), Blues Brothers (1980), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Casablanca (1942), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Citizen Kane (1941), Cool Hand Luke (1967), A Day at the Races (1937), The Deer Hunter (1978), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), Duck Soup (1933), Father of the Bride (1950), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Giant (1956), Gone with the Wind (1939), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), The Graduate (1967), Guys and Dolls (1955), Harvey (1950), The Heiress (1949), Holiday Inn (1942), Hud (1963), Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte (1963), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Jaws (1975), Laura (1944), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Marathon Man (1976), The Music Man (1962), My Fair Lady (1964), A Night at the Opera (1935), The Night of the Hunter (1955), North by Northwest (1959), Now, Voyager (1942), On the Waterfront (1954), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), The Philadelphia Story (1940), The Pink Panther (1963), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), Planet of the Apes (1968), Pride and Prejudice (1940), The Return of the Pink Panther (1974), Road to Morocco (1942), The Searchers (1956), Singin' in the Rain (1952), Some Like It Hot (1959), Sunset Blvd. (1950), The Ten Commandments (1956), The Thin Man (1934), The Third Man (1949), To Be or Not to Be (1942), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Top Hat (1935), West Side Story (1961), The Wizard of Oz (1939), The Women (1939), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) ....

FAVORITE ACTORS/ACTRESSES: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Greer Garson, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Carole Lombard, William Powell, Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Peter Sellers, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Alec Guinness, James Stewart, Edward Everett Horton, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Bing Crosby, Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, James Mason, Spencer Tracy, Jack Benny, Gregory Peck, James Cagney, Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, The Marx Brothers, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, William Holden

TESTIMONY: My mom basically introduced me to them by getting them out from the collection at our local library. I fell in love immediately with the classic
movies and movie stars. The stars have so much more personality and individuality than today in their acting styles and personalities. Classic films have the best music and dancing, as well as some of the best comedies. During high school, our high school library contained a donated collection of over 5000 movies (seriously) from a teacher who passed on and I would take out a stack of them every week to watch. I feel classic movies are unappreciated and are a national treasure. They are important for their historical, cultural and societal information not to mention being more entertaining than most modern movies.


*Contributed by: "Katie Connolly" Date: Thurs, May 10 2001 / 22:38:41 PST

This contributor is represented by a photo of Bette Davis.

Movie stills displayed: Father of the Bride (1950), The Wizard of Oz (1939), The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)

Updated: Thurs, Sept 29 2005