Annnnnd…ACTION!

There seem to be only a handful of old movies people in the under 30 crowd are familiar with. Pretty much everybody has seen Breakfast at Tiffany’s, or at least know Audrey Hepburn. Nearly everyone can recite the famous line from Gone with the Wind, and sing the first line to the title song in Singing in the Rain …but that’s pretty much the extent of most people’s knowledge base of old films.

Those people are really missing out.

My mama cut the cable cord at my house when I was about three years old, so I grew up watching a lot of old movies. We’d go to the library and load up on Shirley Temple, Abbott and Costello movies and anything with Bob Hope. I spent my childhood singing along with Bing Crosby and tap dancing -or least trying to- with Fred Astaire. Sure I’d mix a few Disney movies into my movie rotation, but as a kid I spent way more time with movie stars from the 40’s than I ever did with Disney princesses.


Once I got to middle school, I started noticing other kids weren’t being raised on old movies. When I was in 6th grade, I wanted to sing “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” for the school’s talent show, and all my friends said, “OH the song from Moulin Rouge!” They’d never seen or even heard of Marilyn Monroe’s famous performance in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.



I think people would watch more old movies,if they knew where to start. When you don’t know much about old films and aren’t really familiar with the big stars of back in the day, it’s hard to know what to pick. There are definitely movies that are better than others, and if you happen to select a not-so-go oldie to start off with, it might accidently taint your feelings for them. I don’t want this to happen, so this is place people can discover entertaining and relatable old movies.

Once you start watching these old classics, you’ll be hooked. The stories are so fun, the characters so rich, and you’ll be exposed to new (well, new to you) music and fashion, while getting insight into the past. We can learn so much about our own culture from these films, and learn that films from the 30s can be just as relevant and moving as any film today.