Your favorite childhood film(s)?

[Kimmer]

(I'm not making this an "official" poll because there are waaaaay too many films to choose from plus we're from varied generations.... )

Mine is a tossup between "Mary Poppins" and "The Love Bug."

[Midge]

I didn't have one particular favorite, but here are a few that I loved as a child:

March of the Wooden Soldiers (Laurel and Hardy)
The Wizard of Oz
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
The King and I
Carousel
KIng Kong
Treasure Island
Alice in Wonderland
Cinderella
Sleeping Beauty
Heidi (Shirley Temple)
Pollyanna
Old Yeller

[diane]

"Pollyanna"
"Toby Tyler"
any Shirley Temple film - "Poor Little Rich Girl", "The Littlest Rebel".
"Old Yeller" was a film I only saw when my own children were little.
Now I have it in my collection and blubber like a baby at the appropriate places.

[Larry's 66 Diner]

The Wizard of Oz
Old Yeller
Escape to Witch Mountain

Seems there were a couple others that I just cannot think of right now.

[tclion]

Well of course "The Wizard of Oz" "The Sound of Music" "The King and I" "Sleeping Beauty" and "Beauty and the Beast"

[Kimmer]

I can't believe I forgot "The Gnomemobile." After seeing this film, I pretended my Barbies were gnomes! LOL ;D

[tinyhippy]

some of my favourites as a child.....

E.T.
The Back to the Future movies
Summer Holiday (1963, the Cliff Richard one)
Mary Poppins
The Karen Carpenter Story (huge Carpenters fan)
The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, etc - lots of Disney movies
Little Women (all of them, especially the 1949 June Allyson version)

and even though I'm a huge Judy Garland fan now, I didn't actually see Wizard of Oz until I was 22. :unsure:

[Midge]

tinyhippy said:

and even though I'm a huge Judy Garland fan now, I didn't actually see Wizard of Oz until I was 22.

Holy Mackerel, Angie! Is that because you lived in the U.K.? In the U.S., Oz was a yearly TV tradition for many, many years. We had a black-and-white TV, so I didn't realize it was in color until I was an adult.

[tinyhippy]

midge said:

tinyhippy said:

and even though I'm a huge Judy Garland fan now, I didn't actually see Wizard of Oz until I was 22.

Holy Mackerel, Angie! Is that because you lived in the U.K.? In the U.S., Oz was a yearly TV tradition for many, many years. We had a black-and-white TV, so I didn't realize it was in color until I was an adult.

No, it was on TV in the UK at least once a year. I just never saw it - I actually avoided it as a child because I thought it looked scary! It also freaked me out to think that most, if not all the actors in it were dead - this was long before I was into classic movies, of course!

[Midge]

tinyhippy said:

No, it was on TV in the UK at least once a year. I just never saw it - I actually avoided it as a child because I thought it looked scary! It also freaked me out to think that most, if not all the actors in it were dead - this was long before I was into classic movies, of course!

You must have been a very sensitive child to even consider whether the actors in a movie are dead or alive. My husband and I sometimes watch old movies together, and he'll say, "He's dead . . .she's dead . . .he's dead. . ." as the actors appear on screen.

Of course I'm a lot older than you are, so when I first saw Oz, all but one of the principal actors were still very much alive (Frank Morgan died the year after I was born).

[Roger Thornhill]

Remember that line? "Beethoven's dead, Mozart's dead.......................I'm not feeling too good myself"

[Midge]

rogerthornhill said:

Remember that line? "Beethoven's dead, Mozart's dead.......................I'm not feeling too good myself"

Very funny, Jeff!

[Larry's 66 Diner]

midge said:

rogerthornhill said:

Remember that line? "Beethoven's dead, Mozart's dead.......................I'm not feeling too good myself"

Very funny, Jeff!

[tinyhippy]

midge said:

tinyhippy said:

No, it was on TV in the UK at least once a year. I just never saw it - I actually avoided it as a child because I thought it looked scary! It also freaked me out to think that most, if not all the actors in it were dead - this was long before I was into classic movies, of course!

You must have been a very sensitive child to even consider whether the actors in a movie are dead or alive. My husband and I sometimes watch old movies together, and he'll say, "He's dead . . .she's dead . . .he's dead. . ." as the actors appear on screen.

Of course I'm a lot older than you are, so when I first saw Oz, all but one of the principal actors were still very much alive (Frank Morgan died the year after I was born).

Oh my goodness, I was terrily sensitive as a child. Yes, it always occured to me to think of the actors. I remember one Sunday afternoon, TWOZ was on TV, and my mother and aunt were sitting chatting with it on in the background. They started talking about Judy Garland, mainly about how she'd died. It shook me to think of how something that appeared so innocent and lovely on screen could turn so sad and broken in real life. I think that's how I became so aware of things like that. I don't remember how old I was exactly, but I was pretty young. So I avoided Oz and Judy for a long time, until I got into classic movies a few years ago. They're nothing to be afraid of! I love Judy now.

[annavandenhazel]

midge said:

tinyhippy said:

No, it was on TV in the UK at least once a year. I just never saw it - I actually avoided it as a child because I thought it looked scary! It also freaked me out to think that most, if not all the actors in it were dead - this was long before I was into classic movies, of course!

You must have been a very sensitive child to even consider whether the actors in a movie are dead or alive. My husband and I sometimes watch old movies together, and he'll say, "He's dead . . .she's dead . . .he's dead. . ." as the actors appear on screen.

Of course I'm a lot older than you are, so when I first saw Oz, all but one of the principal actors were still very much alive (Frank Morgan died the year after I was born).

I do that too, when my son is watching programs on TV-Land. It never occured to me to be bothered by an actor in an old program being dead, they look very much alive on the screen.

P.S. At my mom's house last week, Glenn (age 12) got to see an Elvis concert from Hawaii in the 1970's on TV-Land. He was surprised when I told him that was really Elvis and not an impersonator, he didn't think that man looked like Elvis! Glenn has seen several Elvis movies made in the 60's, before he started putting on weight and wearing ridiculous outfits (my mother's words, not mine), so Glenn didn't expect Elvis to look like that.

[tinyhippy]

I forgot some! I loved OLIVER! (1968), and The Secret Garden films.

[circled27]

Dumbo

[dvdjunkie]

My two favorite films, which are not too far away from the DVD player ever are:

The Yearling (1946) - Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman and Claude Jarman Jr. If you don't cry in this movie, you are heartless!!

Old Yeller (1957) - Fess Parker, Dorothy McGuire, Tim Considine, Kevin Corcoran. Another great film that will definitely make you draw a tear.


Some other favorites and I won't list them by name include all of the Walt Disney Animated Classics.

[Larry's 66 Diner]

May 16, 2009 12:52:02 GMT -6 dvdjunkie said:

The Yearling (1946) - Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman and Claude Jarman Jr. If you don't cry in this movie, you are heartless!!

I must agree with you on this film, Bill! It's been many a year since I've seen this movie, but I can sure remember bawling like a baby!

Old Yeller, I seem to recall, was good too, but I guess it's even been longer since I've seen that one, because I don't remember as much about it.

[merry]

Mary Poppins
Wizard Of Oz

We had a black and white too, and the first time I saw it on a color tv, I sat with my mouth open when Dorothy opened the door into Munchkin Land.

[Midge]

Mar 30, 2010 19:05:31 GMT -6 merry said:

We had a black and white too, and the first time I saw it on a color tv, I sat with my mouth open when Dorothy opened the door into Munchkin Land.

My jaw dropped when I saw the Wicked Witch for the first time in color, and her face was green!

[merry]

I know Midge. Everything was soo colorful

[harryden]

Jeff is my favorite childhood film because it's very funny.

[dvdjunkie]

One great classic live-action/animated film that no one seems to talk about is Walt Disney's "Song of the South". I remember seeing this one in the theater as a child, and now it has the NAACP up in arms because it depicts Black people as slaves.

Don't they understand it is a movie, and that is what it was like back in those times.

I have an bootleg copy of "Song of the South", and all my grandkids get to watch this as often as they ask.

;D ;D

[Midge]

Jul 29, 2010 14:13:49 GMT -6 dvdjunkie said:

One great classic live-action/animated film that no one seems to talk about is Walt Disney's "Song of the South". I remember seeing this one in the theater as a child, and now it has the NAACP up in arms because it depicts Black people as slaves.

Don't they understand it is a movie, and that is what it was like back in those times.

I have an bootleg copy of "Song of the South", and all my grandkids get to watch this as often as they ask.

I saw Song of the South as a child, too, and thought it was a very entertaining movie. I loved Uncle Remus and didn't think of him as a slave, just a nice older man who told stories. On seeing it as an adult I realized that some of the animated characters spoke in what would now be considered an offensive "Amos 'n' Andy" dialect. When I was a little girl I had never met anyone in real life who talked like that, so I didn't think anything of it. As they say in South Pacific, prejudice is something that "you've got to be carefully taught."

[spruance]

My childhood favourites would have to include...

The Incredible Journey (1963 original version)
Mary Poppins (1964).
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Karate Killers (1967)


I was very much into The Man From U.N.C.L.E TV series at the time and remember seeing the movie more than once which was unusual in those days. I also remember that when mum took me to see Mary Poppins the queue (line) stretched all the way down the street and round the corner into the cinama car park but we still managed to get in at first time of asking.