Classic romances we’re still in love with Works of heartar
Old movies are better – no one gets stripped off and jumps into bed. Instead, it’s all done with a look.
My favourite has to be Now, Voyager, starring Bette Davis and Paul Henreid. I watched this as a teenager on TV. It’s classic Bette.
T he roma n c e is d o ome d because Paul Henreid’s character Jerry is married and Bette says the wonderful line: “Don’t let’s ask for the moon — we have the stars”.
A real weepie!
It had ever ything. Brilliant songs, including the Oscar- winning Evergreen, Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson were superb.
I fell in love with Barbra’s character Esther in the movie and in 2016 I got to meet the great lady herself and tell her!
I plucked up the courage to ask a
La La Land is already the film of the year.
We still swoon over Swayze. girli two years a b ov e me at school to go with me to see it at the ABC on Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street.
The beautiful Rosemary Hunter said yes and I was the envy of all my school pals. There was no winching but I did buy her a box of Newberry Fruits. N ow t ha t ’ s romantic!
At the time it came out I was working for teen magazine Just Seventeen and had a gigantic crush on actor Andrew McCarthy.
Decades went by. I had left the world of teenage magazines and almost forgotten about Andrew – until one day, my daughter asked which movies I used to love.
Pretty In Pink, I exclaimed, and promptly ordered the DVD so we
The perfect festive rom-com. could cosy up and watch it together. Oh dear – how it had dated!
My daughter shuffled and fidgeted, clearly bored. Compared to today’s snappy romcoms, it plodded along at a more gentle pace.
But it still had charm and a tremendous soundtrack. And Andrew McCarthy will always have a place in my heart. and Kim Novak embrace at the Empire Hotel, while Bernard Herrmann’s score swirls through the green neon, is perhaps the most romantic yet unsettling screen kiss in cinema history.
Billy Crystal’s impressive jumper collection. That scene in the café. A script that makes me roar with laughter.
When Harry Met Sally has everything: will- they- won’t- they-( ofcourse- they- will) plot, wisecracks aplenty and – spoiler alert – a happy ending.