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Top 100 U.S. Screen Romances List
AP via Yahoo ^ | 06.12.02 | AP-Yahoo

Posted on 06/12/2002 9:16:02 AM PDT by Registered

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



TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: films; movies; romances
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To: Xenalyte
In case y'all can't tell, I abhorred Pretty Woman. I'm not big on chick flicks.
21 posted on 06/12/2002 9:48:03 AM PDT by Xenalyte
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To: Registered
How about "Play Misty for Me"?
22 posted on 06/12/2002 9:48:14 AM PDT by Armedanddangerous
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To: TrappedInLiberalHell
Remains of the Day was a good flick.
23 posted on 06/12/2002 9:49:18 AM PDT by codebreaker
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To: codebreaker
I was going to vote for 'Glen or Glenda?' as tops on my list.

Personally, I vote for "Robot Monster"!
24 posted on 06/12/2002 9:50:22 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan
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To: Registered
They forgot "Popeye."
25 posted on 06/12/2002 9:50:43 AM PDT by SerpentDove
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To: Registered
As long as "The Quiet Man" made it on the list...
26 posted on 06/12/2002 9:52:37 AM PDT by Mr. Thorne
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To: Registered
Singing In The Rain is actually a pretty vengeful story.
What did Lena Lamont to be destroyed by these two gay guys,
with the help of two equally heartless confederates?
27 posted on 06/12/2002 9:53:57 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Registered
Aliens 3 didn't make the list. Sigourney Weaver is surrounded by convicts on a remote planet and has been impregnated by a blood-thirsty alien.

If that isn't romance, I just don't know what is!

28 posted on 06/12/2002 9:54:53 AM PDT by kidd
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To: Registered
I watched Serendipity last week. That was really great.
29 posted on 06/12/2002 9:54:55 AM PDT by Alouette
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To: TrappedInLiberalHell
>>I'm probably one of the few men alive who hasn't seen Casablanca. Oh, I rented it once, but lost interest after a short while. Maybe I wasn't in the right mood for it.<<

I saw Casablanca as a kid and still thought it was a great movie. Although I grew up and got all conservative and everything, and now I can't see a wartime American expatriate as any kind of hero.

30 posted on 06/12/2002 9:55:37 AM PDT by SerpentDove
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To: Xenalyte
Awwwwww yeah.... but the wiley Geer was smitten by the beguiling and coy ways of ms Roberts.

Think Pygmallion -GBS /(My Fair Lady) where the swave and dayboner gentleman sets about to turn the simplistic big lip woman into a charmming thang and falls ga ga over her.

31 posted on 06/12/2002 9:55:41 AM PDT by Smartaleck
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To: Registered
I remember "The Toxic Avenger" bringing tears to my eays.

Hollywood should have loved that film.

Blind woman and Mutant fall in love.

32 posted on 06/12/2002 9:56:26 AM PDT by Iwentsouth
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To: Registered
Do you suppose the Palm Beach County voters bumped "Love Story" up the list (the Al Gore connection, and all)?
33 posted on 06/12/2002 9:56:44 AM PDT by TrappedInLiberalHell
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To: Xenalyte
>> In case y'all can't tell, I abhorred Pretty Woman.<<

That's funny. I abhor Julia Roberts.

34 posted on 06/12/2002 9:57:13 AM PDT by SerpentDove
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To: Registered
I've always liked "Field of Dreams." Costner was his usual stiff talentless self, but I've always admired his wife's character in that movie. How many wives do you know that would have let him do what the Costner character did? He jeopardized the family's well being, their home, their revenue earning resources and built a baseball field (with lights) when he should have been working. Next time you watch that flick, focus on the wife.
35 posted on 06/12/2002 9:59:10 AM PDT by Tacis
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To: Smartaleck
My Fair Lady is at least top 5. And 'Its a Wonderful Life'-a great film..but not a romance
36 posted on 06/12/2002 10:02:39 AM PDT by codebreaker
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To: Tacis
I've seen 'Field of Dreams' at least 10 times and I know what you are saying.
37 posted on 06/12/2002 10:03:46 AM PDT by codebreaker
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To: Registered
"The Fountainhead"?
38 posted on 06/12/2002 10:04:05 AM PDT by DoctorMichael
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To: gaspar
Which was the Gilbert/Garbo film in which Greta said to John (via subtitle), "I am like this ring. Apt to fall." I saw this film with an audience. When he kissed her and the ring fell, there was an audible gasp. Wow! What a scene!

I have a question about King Kong, too. Which relationship gets the film on the list?

39 posted on 06/12/2002 10:04:13 AM PDT by Gumlegs
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