Classic Movie Recommendations

What about "The Shop Around the Corner"? I watch this movie around Christmastime every year and just love its sweet and silly story. It stars Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullivan as coworkers who are unwittingly corresponding with each other through an anonymous pen-pal type program. I love Ernst Lubitsch movies in general, but this one is very special, a true romantic classic with a happy ending. (It was also the inspiration for "You've Got Mail".)

Swiss family Robinson, Escape to Witch Mountain (the original one, not the new one...) My Fair Lady, That Darn Cat, Love Bug.

What about Alfred Hitchcock movies - they are great.

My two favorite classics are Rebecca and Some Like it Hot. And Gone with the Wind is always a favorite.

Sound of Music is still one of my all time favorites!

Walt Disney- So dear to my heart,
Desk Set
Yours, Mine and Ours (original with Lucille Ball)
3 pennies in a fountain
Princess Bride
To Sir with Love

Breakfast at Tiffany's, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, It's a Wonderful Life, Lawrence of Arabia, Gone With the Wind, Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments, The Sound of Music...

The Shirley Temple movies are really good.

Arsenic and Old Lace (Cary Grant)
The Producers (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder)
Some of our favorite Abbot and Costello movies:
Buck Privates
Hold That Ghost
Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Any musical.
The original Sound of Music. White Christmas. Hello Dolly!
South Pacific is a big hit in our house right now (but only because I accidentally dropped Oliver behind the big bookcase that I can't move).
The Mikado is next.
My mom loves old westerns.

Ditto to the other ideas. But will add:

Rebecca -Laurence Oliver and Joan Fontain directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

North by Northwest - Cary Grant directed by Hitchcock

Gaslight - Ingrid Bergman Josph Cotton

Midnight Lace - Doris Day also a Hitchcock

Any Doris Day/Rock Hudson movie.

There is also a hilarious Doris Day movie with James Gardner movie. He plays an OB/GYN, she is a housewife in the suburbs. She is chosen as the spoksperson for a soap company.

Move Over Darling- Doris Day again. It was the uncompleted film Marilyn Monroe was working on when she died.

ETA:
Giant - Rock Hudson Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean

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Gone with the wind
sampson and delilah
ps love classic movies

Holiday Inn
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Anne of Green Gables
Wizard of Oz
Meet Me in St. Louis
His Girl Friday
Bringing Up Baby
West Side Story
Fantasia

How about these classics-
Dr Zhivago
Gone with the wind
Ben hur or any other Carlton Heston movie
Breakfast at Tiffany's
How about john Wayne? The quiet man or true grit

Some are classics some are just great movies!

Gone with the Wind
Steel Magnolias (keep the hankies close by)
The King and I
Yours, Mine and Ours (Fonda/Ball version)
The Quiet Man (John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara)
McClintock (John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara)
Wizard of Oz
Singing in the Rain
White Christmas
Westside Story
Giant (Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean)

Designing Women ( tv series but funny as heck)
Golden Girls (tv series but again funny as heck)

Lots of good suggestions below!
Some of my favorites to add:
All of the classic musicals!!!!!
Brigadoon
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (I know, it is SO sexist and awful, but I love love love this one!!)
Funny Girl
Oklahoma
Kiss Me Kate
South Pacific
Oliver!
Show Boat

Gone With The Wind
The Greatest Show on Earth

From the 80's, Man from Snowy River

J., I love you.

So many post here are about horrible MILs, I am so glad to read this.

I hope that you will sit with her and watch some together.

I pray to have a DIL like you!

God bless you.

His mine and ours
Cheaper by the dozen
The incredible Mr limpet
Parent trap
That darn cat
Kissen cousins
Bed knobs and broomstick s
The king and I
Sound of music
Chitty chitty bang bang
Heidi
The little princess
The secret garden
If your ok with animated
Then Disney's
Robin hood
Mary poppins
Dumbo
Sword in the stone
Bambi
Escape to witch mountain
Alice in wonderland
Last and the tramp

Some recent really cute movies
Princess diaries
Despicable me
Ice age
Land before time movies

The original Charlie and the Choc Factory
Some Like it Hot
Paper Moon
National Velvet
Wizard of Oz
Sound of Music
Butch Cassidy & Sundance
Breakfast at Tiffanys
Annie
Check out rottentomatoes.com for more ideas. They have ratings on virtually every movie ever released. Our family loves classic movies all ages can enjoy.
Have fun!

My parents loved classic movies, and I love them myself as a result. Great gift idea. I say ditto to the Hitchcock vote--we saw North by Northwest recently, and it was so enjoyable! If she might like some comedies, how about the Marx Brothers? I still die laughing at some of the scenes in Duck Soup and A Night at the Opera. And you can't go wrong with Katherine Hepburn, something like Philadephia Story or Bringing up Baby.

Have fun finding those films for her and watching them yourself!

Lots of good ones already listed. I'd add Gentleman's Agreement, Mr. Roberts, most of the Tracy/Hepburn films (Adam's Rib, Desk Set), Holiday Inn, The Court Jester. Under the Tuscan Sun is newer but good.

Check out your public library - lots of awesome titles for free!

Roman holiday
Sabrina
Affair to remember
Gentleman prefer blondes
On the town
Easter parade
To have and have not
The bishops wife
An American in Paris
High Society
Gigi
The road movies hope and Crosby
In the good old summertime
Mr Smith goes to Washington
Meet me in St Louis
Have fun!

The original, His Mine and Ours with Lucile Ball. I love her movies. I also love (I think it is called) A Girl A guy and a Gob.

ETA: Oh, also Jerry Lewis movies. I watched Cinderfella this past weekend--caught it by accident. I also love the Nutty Professor.

I love

Same time next year
Auntie mame
Fanny
Hello dolly
West side story

(yes, I was going to say any Doris Day film also. Thanks to the person who said THRILL OF IT ALL - never seen it! Now I will.)

Comedy silent films:
- Harold Lloyd - Safety Last
- Harold LLoyd - Girl Shy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDqtgoznzQw
- Harold Lloyd - Speedy (he's dating a girl in NYC and tries to speed through the city to catch a date)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cke4xK8JvQ

Classic Comedies
- His Girl Friday
- To Be or Not to Be
- Bringing up Baby
- The Philadelphia Story
- Dinner at Eight
- Libeled Lady
- Stage Door

Not Feel Good, but Awesome:
- West Side Story (doomed romance, incredible musical)
- Casablanca (romance, peril, suspense, drama)
- Roman Holiday (Hepburn & G. Peck)

- Mrs. Doubtfire ?
- Original Parent Trap is cuter than newer one.
- Anne of Green Gables

Feel Good Movies....

Drat! I love Hitchcock movies. So these are not "feel good" they are SUSPENSE (and the settings/clothing/filming are so elegant)

- Notorious
- To Catch a Thief

Kid cartoons that make me howl:
- Open Season movies
- Madagascar movies (first 2 or 3)

Meet me in St. Louis
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Tobey Tyler
The Swiss Family Robinson
The Man who Knew too Much
The Sound of Music
Gone with the Wind
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
The King and I
The Ten Commandments
Ben-Hur (heavy, but some lighter moments too, and the epic chariot scene)
The Robe
A Man for All Seasons (tied with Gone with the Wind for my favorite movie ever)

My grandpa had Parkinsons but really loved it when we'd watch Fantasia together. Even though he couldn't talk, he'd cry and point at the phrase "thank you" on his pointing board after we'd watch it.

Anything Shirley Temple
Singing in the Rain
The original Father of the Bride

J., a quick comment about doing something very special for your mother-in-law; thank you for this idea of a wonderful gift for a person who generally has everything else they could ever want!

You mentioned westerns. My mother would be 88 right now if she was still with us. She LOVED John Wayne movies. She used to tell us that it was seeing "Stagecoach" (with my dad the night before my younger brother was born) that put her into labor!

Don't know if anyone mentioned any of the old Bob Hope movies but they always crack me up.

Blessings to you and your mother-in-law!

Breakfast at Tiffanys
Flubber(the original)
The shaggy dog (the original)