Beginner’s Guide to Classic Movies: 50 movies to start your discovery of Old Hollywood stars and directors

Beginner’s Guide to Classic Movies: 50 movies to start your discovery of Old Hollywood stars and directors

Where to start: The best classic movies for beginners! Jumpstart your classic movie appreciation with 50 movies that provide an entertaining cross-section of stars, directors, genres and more from Old Hollywood. You’ll start to discover which styles and stars you like. Katharine Hepburn vs. Audrey Hepburn. “Gilda,” “Laura” or “Harold and Maude”? John Wayne, John Ford and John Gilbert. Consider this book a tasting menu at the restaurant of cinema: a wide variety of movie dishes to sample and whet your classic movie appetite. Covering the decades of the 1920s through the early 1970s, this guide is NOT meant to be a definitive list of “the greatest” – although they are all great. The book’s purpose is to provide an entertaining and easy-to-watch broad sampling of movies for you as a starting point to explore your own tastes. For each of the 50 movies, the guide gives you: Plot line: A one-sentence movie summary. - Key cast and crew - Why watch: Brief context around the movie and the people who made it. No spoilers! - Discover more: Related movie recommendations if you want to explore the star, the director, the genre or other similar movies. - Dig deeper: For those who want to explore more. The book also includes: Checklist and lists by alphabetical and chronological orders - Movie tracker for viewing notes - Other classic movie resources