Top 100 U.S. Screen Romances List

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Top 100 U.S. Screen Romances List
Wed Jun 12, 7:15 AM ET

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The American Film Institute ( news - web sites)'s list of top 100 U.S. screen romances:

1. "Casablanca," 1942

2. "Gone With the Wind," 1939

3. "West Side Story," 1961

4. "Roman Holiday," 1953

5. "An Affair to Remember," 1957

6. "The Way We Were, 1973

7. "Doctor Zhivago," 1965

8. "It's a Wonderful Life," 1946

9. "Love Story," 1970

10. "City Lights," 1931

11. "Annie Hall," 1977

12. "My Fair Lady," 1964

13. "Out of Africa," 1985

14. "The African Queen," 1951

15. "Wuthering Heights," 1939

16. "Singin' in the Rain," 1952

17. "Moonstruck," 1987

18. "Vertigo," 1958

19. "Ghost," 1990

20. "From Here to Eternity," 1953

21. "Pretty Woman," 1990

22. "On Golden Pond," 1981

23. "Now, Voyager, 1942

24. "King Kong," 1933

25. "When Harry Met Sally...," 1989

26. "The Lady Eve," 1941

27. "The Sound of Music," 1965

28. "The Shop Around the Corner," 1940

29. "An Officer and a Gentleman," 1982

30. "Swing Time," 1936

31. "The King and I," 1956

32. "Dark Victory," 1939

33. "Camille," 1937

34. "Beauty and the Beast," 1991

35. "Gigi," 1958

36. "Random Harvest," 1942

37. "Titanic," 1997

38. "It Happened One Night," 1934

39. "An American in Paris," 1951

40. "Ninotchka," 1939

41. "Funny Girl," 1968

42. "Anna Karenina," 1935

43. "A Star Is Born," 1954

44. "The Philadelphia Story," 1940

45. "Sleepless in Seattle," 1993

46. "To Catch a Thief," 1955

47. "Splendor in the Grass," 1961

48. "Last Tango in Paris," 1972

49. "The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1946

50. "Shakespeare in Love," 1998

51. "Bringing Up Baby," 1938

52. "The Graduate," 1967

53. "A Place in the Sun," 1951

54. "Sabrina," 1954

55. "Reds," 1981

56. "The English Patient," 1996

57. "Two for the Road," 1967

58. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," 1967

59. "Picnic," 1955

60. "To Have and Have Not," 1944

61. "Breakfast at Tiffany's," 1961

62. "The Apartment," 1960

63. "Sunrise," 1927

64. "Marty," 1955

65. "Bonnie and Clyde," 1967

66. "Manhattan," 1979

67. "A Streetcar Named Desire," 1951

68. "What's Up, Doc?," 1972

69. "Harold and Maude," 1971

70. "Sense and Sensibility," 1995

71. "Way Down East," 1920

72. "Roxanne," 1987

73. "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir," 1947

74. "Woman of the Year," 1942

75. "The American President," 1995

76. "The Quiet Man," 1952

77. "The Awful Truth," 1937

78. "Coming Home," 1978

79. "Jezebel," 1939

80. "The Sheik," 1921

81. "The Goodbye Girl," 1977

82. "Witness," 1985

83. "Morocco," 1930

84. "Double Indemnity," 1944

85. "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing," 1955

86. "Notorious," 1946

87. "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," 1988

88. "The Princess Bride," 1987

89. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," 1966

90. "The Bridges of Madison County," 1995

91. "Working Girl," 1988

92. "Porgy and Bess," 1959

93. "Dirty Dancing," 1987

94. "Body Heat," 1981

95. "Lady and the Tramp," 1955

96. "Barefoot in the Park," 1967

97. "Grease," 1978

98. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," 1939

99. "Pillow Talk," 1959

100. "Jerry Maguire," 1996

[Smartaleck]

My daughter's middle name.......Elise....after Elise McKenna.....Oh yeah

[codebreaker]

My parents love to vacation there, I guess it must be a great setting.

Christopher Reeve can't be over 25 when that movie came out..

[rintense]

I hate to admit it, but Barbarella is one of the most campy films ever- I loved it! I named my cat Pygar!

[Aliska]

s for passion, who can forget Ralph Fiennes in THE END OF THE AFFAIR. The power of redemption through salvation cannot be missed.

Wow! I just rented that a week ago. I was totally taken by the actress and looked her up on the net. Jeanne Moore. She has made tons of films. Rather of the Hanover Street ilk where the cuckholded husband and lover are friends.

I was really turned off by how Affair ended. His depriving her of the priest was totally mean-spirited and selfish. Her character was more redemptive, don't you think?

I know it was just fantasy, but it moved me to tears where the little boy's face was healed.

[twigs]

Shows you the kind of movies they are making today

I just rented "North by Northwest" for my 17 year-old daughter recently b/c she was writing a paper on Hitchcock. She was simply amazed at how sexy it was without hardly showing a thing. While she has been rather restricted in what she's allowed to watch, she understood that suggestion is much sexier than the full scene that kids seem to enjoy today.

[Aliska]

Isn't that Grand Island Hotel on Mackinac Island gorgeous? I've never been there.

Thanks for the gorgeous pic. I could never understand why that film was classed sci fi.

They really made a pair in that movie. Really worked well together.

[Registered]

I named my cat Pygar!

LOL!

[RightFighter]

You've got to be kidding me! You mean the movie "Always" with Richard Dreyfuss and Holly Hunter didn't even make the top 100, but "Working Girl" did? What a crock!

[codebreaker]

And the film just plays like it is timeless, everytime I see it on cable I watch.

[dfwgator]

"Dude, Where's My Car?" didn't make the list?

[codebreaker]

[SuziQ]

No more rhyming now, I mean it!

Well you'll love it, once you've seen it!!
(Sorry, I just couldn't resist!!)

[BADJOE]

My Favorite is "The Magniricent Obsession"

[Semper Paratus]

I just rented "North by Northwest" for my 17 year-old daughter recently b/c she was writing a paper on Hitchcock.

Reminded me of another Hitchcock-Grant-Grace Kelly movie, "To Catch aTthief".
During a picnic Grace asks, "Do you want a breast or a leg?".

[Registered]

I can see my room from here!

[Aliska]

I don't buy too many films but I got that one! Haven't watched it for awhile.

[Stand Watch Listen]

FYI...

Memoirs of Elise

This proposed sequel/prequel to Somewhere in Time was inspired by the movie's poignant opening scene. In this scene Elise McKenna sits alone in the darkness waiting for her opportunity to give a young playwright, Richard Collier, a watch, and to utter the enigmatic words, "Come back to me." The underlying emotion of the scene, and possibly of the entire film, comes from the fact that she had been waiting for this day for sixty years!

[SuziQ]

Also love any of the English period films, especially those based on Jane Austen novels.

I saw "Sense and Sensibility" on the list, but was "Emma" on there? It was a good adaptation of the book. I thought Emma Thompson SO deserved the Oscar for her adaptation of 'Sense' for the screen. After seeing the movies, I read the books and they were just stultifying!! They were like Thomas Hardy novels. Descriptions of landscapes or house are ok, but not when they go on for pages!!

One of my favorite Jane Austen adaptations was not made for the big screen, but aired on Masterpiece Theatre. It was "Persuasion" and the only actor I remember from it was Ciaran Hinds who played the sea captain (he's presently playing the Russian premier in "Sum of all Fears"). If you can find it on video or DVD at the local library, check it out!! It was so wonderfully romantic about love lost and regained.

[redhead]

They also always leave out the A&E production of "Pride and Prejudice," starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. MAGNIFICENT!

[redhead]

"I vote for SHREK."

Me, too!