# Recommend a Classic Romance Movie -- Need Answer Sort of Fast **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 7, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-classic-romance-movie-need-answer-sort-of-fast/745445 "2016-02-07T18:09:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-classic-romance-movie-need-answer-sort-of-fast/745445/61 "2016-02-09T23:12:40Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > The movie wouldn’t be half as funny without the latter. True (and it puts the movie firmly into the top tier of the “greatest final line” category, too.) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-classic-romance-movie-need-answer-sort-of-fast/745445/62 "2016-02-09T23:19:39Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > True (and it puts the movie firmly into the top tier of the “greatest final line” category, too.) I still think _My Man Godfrey_ has the better final line. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-classic-romance-movie-need-answer-sort-of-fast/745445/63 "2016-02-09T23:27:35Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > This is a remake of Love Affair with Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer. Get the original. And run screaming from **Love Affair** with Warren Beatty and Annette Bening. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-classic-romance-movie-need-answer-sort-of-fast/745445/64 "2016-02-09T23:40:05Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I still think _My Man Godfrey_ has the better final line. They’re both agreeably cynical. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-classic-romance-movie-need-answer-sort-of-fast/745445/65 "2016-02-10T00:35:23Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > An outlier that I really like: _I Was a Male War Bride_, with Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan. Ann Sheridan, mmmmmmmmm! :o I saw this flick on TCM and quite liked it. I love the theme music! > **[▶️ Honeymoon for Three - Honeymoon For Three](https://www.imdb.com/video/vi447218969/)** > > Watch Trailer | 2:29 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-classic-romance-movie-need-answer-sort-of-fast/745445/66 "2016-02-10T00:44:47Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > True (and it puts the movie firmly into the top tier of the “greatest final line” category, too.) The movie is very well known in Russia (the title there is “In Jazz There Are Only Girls”). When it was first shown in the Khrushchev era, the last line brought the house down! ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-classic-romance-movie-need-answer-sort-of-fast/745445/67 "2016-02-10T18:35:08Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > IMHO the best romantic comedies have great chemistry between the lead and real-life chemistry is the best… And I would add [Desk Set](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050307/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) with Tracy and Hepburn. Be sure to get a widescreen version of any film where it’s available. The looks you get from the fringe just make many a movie! ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-classic-romance-movie-need-answer-sort-of-fast/745445/68 "2016-02-15T02:36:08Z")
Hey, **Biotop** , what movies did you settle on, and did you manage to get them on time? ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-classic-romance-movie-need-answer-sort-of-fast/745445/69 "2016-02-15T03:04:08Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > _Notorious_ (the 1946 Hitchcock film, not the Biggie Smalls biopic). > > It’s terribly romantic but also a great suspense film, thereby avoiding the ‘chick flick’ label. Another vote for this one. It’s one of my favorite romance/suspense movies. And just ironic/sarcastic enough to keep from being cheesy. “There’s nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh”. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-classic-romance-movie-need-answer-sort-of-fast/745445/70 "2016-02-15T07:34:24Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > Hey, **Biotop** , what movies did you settle on, and did you manage to get them on time? I am an indecisive sort, so when I tried to whittle it down to five movies, I couldn’t. I ended up ordering these 8: Sabrina Roman Holiday Holiday An Affair to Remember High Society Ninotchka Bringing Up Baby Waterloo Bridge The package arrived Friday from Amazon. I work in Customer Service in a grocery store. My wife works in the Floral department of a competitive grocery store. Our stores are located twenty miles apart so the competition isn’t really that much. In any case, my wife was scheduled to work today from 6am until 1pm getting flowers out to the masses for the holiday. I was supposed to work 2:30 to 11 at my store. That left a window of about 20 minutes where my wife and I would be home together. We would open Valentine’s Day presents when she got home, and then I would go to work. But then the wild card: _Snow in the forecast_. I got a call from work about 10 this morning asking me to come in early because the forecast for 4 to 7 inches of snow and ice had turned the normally rational people of our area into Grocery Store Madness fiends. So I went into work early and there went the window. I managed to lay out the present and chocolates I bought on the counter so my wife would find them when she got home this afternoon. No problem, I would be home by 11:45pm, we would have quick present opening and then tomorrow we could be snowed in together with old romantic movies to watch. Well it wasn’t supposed to start snowing until midnight, but the flakes began falling about 8pm. By 11 the roads were snowy and I had to decide whether to sleep at the store or to try to drive in the snow home. I have totaled a car once in the snow, and I hate driving in the stuff… but I decided to try and get home. We live outside Charlottesville up in the hills. The roads were bad. I ended up leaving my car about two miles from the house and walking home in the snow and eighteen degree temperature. I got home about 1am and my wife had already gone to sleep. The present remains unopened on the counter, though some chocolates were eaten. I guess I will see if she likes the movies tomorrow. Thanks everyone for the suggestions! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-classic-romance-movie-need-answer-sort-of-fast/745445.md?page=3)