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In reply to the discussion: What old movies have you been watching ? [View all]Jeebo
(2,021 posts)10. The Heiress (1949)
TCM just showed it. I think it's Olivia DeHaviland's best movie, and I also think it should have won Best Picture, I think it's way better than the movie that did win Best Picture that year. I also, just tonight, watched Cleopatra (1963) with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. There was an earlier black-and-white version that was made about 30 years earlier with Claudette Colbert in the title role that I think is better, but then, I admit that might be because I'm partial to old movies. For the record, any movie that was made later than about 1950 I do not consider an "old" movie.
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