Top 10 Most Romantic Moments in Classic Hollywood Movies
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- Hollywood romances don't get more classical than this. For this list, we’ll be looking at the most passionate, tender and chemistry-laden moments from Hollywood films. Our countdown includes "Brief Encounter," "West Side Story," "Casablanca," and more! Which classic movie moments make YOU swoon? Share your favorites in the comments!
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ALL OF THEM THAT'S ALL.
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All of them!
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Maria and Captain Von Trapp dancing the Ländler is one of my favorite parts of _The Sound of Music._ the chemistry between them is undeniable, and the dance is just beautiful.
I consider this the sexiest scene in any movie. The chemistry was electric. I still get butterflies every time I watch it ❤
Saw this scene as a kid and it was the first time, i think, that I could not describe how I felt. I wanted to cry but controlled it and held my breath , my stomach tightened, and I paced the room to somehow get rid of these things.
I also love the innocence of the teen romance song and dance between Rolph and Liesl.
too bad they couldn’t stand each other
😊
YES!!! The scene of Captain Von Trapp and Maria is my all time favorite!! The way they look at each other at the end of the dance is...the most beautiful and romantic scene...EVER!
Couldn't agree more✨… In this scene, they don't have some too intimate behaviors, but the chemistry is just overflowing and make my heart touched and broken… It's a dreamy romance beyond description……
Both me and my mom can NEVER take the smiles off of our faces whenever we see Maria and the Captain dancing the Landler in The Sound of Music. My mom showed me the film for the first time when I was only six years old and I’ve been obsessed with it ever since then and it’s been one of my all time favorite films ever since, and like my mom, the Landler dance scene is also my all time favorite scene because it’s so beautiful. Every time I watch the film and I approach the scene, I always pause it and holler for my mom in case she wants to see it. More often than not, she says she can’t come, only for me to spy her peering in my doorway at the last minute 😂 (I can see out of the corner of my eye)
I used to watch it with my mom! She has passed away now, but I always think of her when I watch it. ❤
Oh my GOODNESS! MY favorite romantic scenes EVER OF ALL TIME!I was a little girl, just like you,and dreamed of playing Maria and/or Leisl and I DID when I got older. I also played Sister Berthe later in life in another production with my own daughter playing the younger roles as well. My favorite musical to perform in of all time.
Couldn't agree more… For me, The Sound of Music is the top and I really think it should be higher😢…
Till today, though having seen many different movies, the dance between Maria and Captain in The Sound of Music is still the most romantic scene in films I thought.
The dreamy chemistry is beyond description, overflowing the screen… My heart is touched, melted and broken…
I know The Sound of Music(1965) isn't a love movie, but the chemistry and love between Maria and Captain is unmatched… Whether their daily talk, this dance, or the KISS later… Always make my heart quiver, which is very rare to me even when I was seeing some iconic love movies.
The chemistry✨……
Mary & George in It’s a Wonderful Life when he has the line, “I don’t wanna be married to anyone ever” before finally caving to his feelings.
Yeah, I'd put the "You're a golden girl, Tracy, full of fire and life" scene from The Philadelphia Story ahead of the ending.
Their feelings crash down upon each other and Sam.
Ditto
My favorite scene is their wedding night in the old house when Mary looks up at George with the purest look of love I've ever seen in the movies!
@@beechnut8779 such a classic
I'm remembering the scene in Bridges of Madison County when it's pouring rain outside and we see Meryl Streep in the truck with her husband, watching as Clint Eastwood's character sits at the light. Her hand grabs the truck's door handle and we wonder if she'll fly out of her seat after Clint...before he leaves her forever.The tension of that moment gets me every time.
Oh , yes ... I tear up just thinking of that scene .
Its mostly a tragic love scene. It breaks your heart because she knows her one love is in the truck in front of her, but she has history and kids, so she stays in the same truck with her husband.
I’d add the ending of The Apartment. Everytime Shirley McLane’s character says “Shut up and deal” to Jack Lemon one, I’m in tears of joy.
Totally agree!
It’s A Wonderful Life’s “you want the moon?” scene is one of the most romantic to me.
Casablanca's ending is truely a timeless masterpiece
I think that The Sound of Music is one of the most beautiful movies ever made in every way! Brilliant movie making!
An Affair to Remember is definitely #1. At this point in the movie, the heart-broken and hurt Cary Grant starts looking for his painting of Kerr that he heard a woman in a wheelchair had purchased and is now suspecting was Deborah Kerr who has her legs covered with a blanket while she lays on the sofa. When he finds it, he closes his eyes in pain as he realized it was her in the wheelchair. Then, he says, "If it had to happen to one of us, why DID it have to be you?" I had a very hard time keeping my composure the first time I saw this.
Love this movie!
What do you think of the original version, "Love Affair", starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer? Boyer's reaction to finding the painting ... he makes it so easy to imagine somebody going through what his character is going through at that moment, and I just start blubbering like a ninny. If you've never seen it before, you're in luck: It lost its copyright protection, so you can just watch it legally any time you want, right here on the Tube of You.
2:56 It's raining and the cat is getting squished by two adults. I'm surprised the cat didn't freak out.
Great actor, Cat! I don't think he got royalties! 😺😺
😂"CAT" was played by a Hollywood pro - real name Orangey. Owned & Trained by Hollywood animal trainer Frank Inn (also trained Benjy) Orangey starred in 10 movies and lots of TV.♥️
There’s something so magical and romantic about old romance movies that movies today don’t ever have…
The "Shall We Dance" scene from the King and I ..... one of my absolute favorites ❤❤❤
I love the ending to "Roman Holiday" - when Gregory Peck's character gives Audrey Hepburn's princess the pictures he secretly took of her, signaling he has put the idea of a story about her forever to bed.
I cry every time.
I loved that movie
Totally agree!
Yes, while beautiful it's not 'romantic'
I’ve only seen that movie one time. But I loved it!!
No mention of George and Mary in It's a Wonderful Life when they're both speaking to Sam on the same phone? That's one of the most romantically charged scenes I've ever seen.
I was thinking that very thing!
George and Mary from A Wonderful Life is my favorite. Except for Love Story. A later time
Honestly I expected "Its a Wonderful life" to take number one slot, only watched this to see it again . 🌹
Amen to that-one of my favorite movie scenes of all time!
The Quiet Man,, with John Wayne and Maureen O Hara in the storm,,, the best of all love stories
"Dr. Zhivago"- lots of romantic scenes, but the best is where Lara walks into the library and Yuri sees her, with the sunlight shining on her hair- Wow!
The closing scene in The Way We Were.
Maria and the captain for me was my favourite for romantic moments; may it be the gazebo scene or the dance scene between the two of them plus that movie also had the best wedding scene of all times too.
Exactly the same for me. Always the best and I loved Leisl in her dance scene as well
The wedding scene was phenomenal.
One of my favorite romantic movies is The Ghost of Mrs. Muir. This is a film where the couple never even kiss. But the ending were Gene Tierney's character dies and Captain Gregg (played by Rex Harrison) extends his hands to her is amazing.
So incredibly beautiful.
Forgot about that one.
I love that movie ❤
One of my all time favorite movies that I go back to time and again is 1955's "Marty". There's no big romantic scene, just two lonely people who meet at a dance on a Saturday night, spending the evening talking and walking together NYC while slowly falling in love. The end scene makes my heart sing because Marty (Ernest Borgnine) doesn't give a damn about how his mother and best friend think of Clare (Betsy Blair), he just knows that he had a good time the night before and if he has enough good times with her, he's going to get down on his knees and beg her to marry him. Such a simple, quiet and realistic film.
Luved the entire cast of Marty. It was first a time play but the movie is far superior.
@@MsBackstager I've seen the television version too. Even though it was filmed first, it did not have the quality of the film. Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair were superb.
@@vintagegal541 I believe that the mothers were the same in both. Funny that back then, an Italian woman of 54 was considered OLD.
@@MsBackstager You're right, they were the same actresses. Your comment about the age issue was so true then. Look at a lot of women now from 50's and some into their 90's not letting life slow them down. But, it was a different time then.
Mr. Borgnine won the Oscar for his wonderful portrayal.
Without a doubt, the love scene that comes to my mind first when I think of all time greats is from Rocky. When Rocky invites Adrian up to his apartment after their first date, but she’s too shy to come inside all the way so she stands in the doorway and he comes over to her, faces her, takes off her hat and her glasses and tells her he’s going to kiss her and then leans in to do it … it would melt any girl!
So glad you mentioned that one. I saw that movie when I was a mousy, introverted teenager and immediately fell in love with Rocky. Except for Maria and Captain Von Trapp, Rocky and Adrian played the best love scene EVER. Oh, how I longed to be Adrian! :)
This list left me satisfied, lol. My favorite, Maria and Captain Von Trapp from The Sound Of Music. Their chemistry was captured perfectly.
I was a little girl when I saw this on screen and I fell in love with love then. OH, my goodness, I couldn't breathe and I didn't know why. :)
Oh yes… Couldn't agree more✨… In this scene, they don't have some too intimate behaviors, but the chemistry is just overflowing and make my heart touched and broken… It's a dreamy romance beyond description……
One of my favorite movie is "Picnic". The dance scene between William Holden and Kim Novak is unforgettable.
Truly one of the most magical moments ever filmed. It's unforgettable.
I love the captain and Maria's dance! My favourite movie.
The scene where Cary Grant rescues Ingrid Bergman in "Notorious". To say that it is _Intense_ just scratches the surface...
It should be mentioned here that "An Affair to Remember" was based on the movie "Love Affair," starring Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne. The ending there was also a tearjerker.
So glad that The Best Years of Our Lives is included! I certainly think though that its most romantic moment is the ending with Fred and Peggy, Dana Andrews and Teresa Wright, looking intently at each other as the wedding vows for Homer and Wilma are recited. Finally they embrace, that's one of my top romantic moments in classic films. Also Hitchcock's Notorious final scene with Cary Grant's character declaring -finally- his love for Ingrid Bergman's.
Brief Encounter got me through Covid 19...I kid you not 🥰🌺🙏🏽
The one from Now, Voyager will always be my favorite.
Yeah mine too 🧡🧡🧡
Yes, that film is very interesting. I used to see it on TCM - it's beautifully acted and written. Obviously an "ugly duckling turned to swan by romance" story - but it was also a quite modern film for its time, the early 1940s. The storyline sets the oppressed daughter/premature spinster against her smug, elegant mother in a way that prefigures the postwar films about young people in revolt against their families and society (James Dean etc): Charlotte really is a teenager whose liberation has been stunted by her cold, controlling mum, and the movie makes it clear that she needs to defy her mother, stand up to her - the scene earlier when she is telling Jerry about a former lover whom she adored precisely because "he had defied my mother!" and raised her above her grey situation, but the guý soon got forced out and ousted from her life by the same mum, is a key to the entire film.
It's probably not a coincidence that this is also one of the first Hollywood films that mentions psychoanalysis, and presenting it as a serious method of recovery. Even if this motive of "liberation from the family" is cut short a bit in the film because Charlotte's mother kills herself by falling down the stairs, giving her more freedom, it still remains present through the entire film.
John Wayne, Maureen Ohara, An Irish graveyard In a thunderstorm. Simply the best.
Amen!
Love John Wayne, but he’s definitely not a romantic lead.
I like an Affair to Remember very much. One more to add is John WAYNE and Maureen O'Hara in The Quiet Man... kissing in the rain, lightning among old church ruins....took my breath away.❤
Totally agree!!!
The best scene❤️
One of my absolute favorite movies!
Also the kiss in the cottage at the height of the wind storm. Pure passion!
@@beechnut8779 Oh yes!!! ❤️
The handsome Paul Henreid and Bette Davis at her most beautiful.
Now Voyager, the most perfect kiss in all of cinema.😊
I would have liked to see in the list the scene of Román Holiday when they are in the car and she is about to leave, it is such a beautiful scene ❤❤❤❤
Solid choices. Honorable mention: Gene Tierney-"Lucia"-and Rex Harrison in "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir." Most beautiful musical score, too.
Oh that is a favorite of mine as well.
That movie is a hidden gem.
@@cmm5542 Not hidden to you. So nice to hear.
Roman Holiday would be near the top of my list. That kiss between the characters played by Audry Hepburn and Gregory Peck was so special and memorable.
The movie Witness has one of the most memorable scenes depicting a couple whose passion for each other must always remain unfulfilled. The woman is Amish played by Kelly McGillis, and she runs outside and flings herself into the arms of Harrison Ford for a passionate kiss with an intensity that is thrilling and memorable.
Captain Von Trapp was my first celebrity crush because of that scene. Nice list.
SAME! I have NEVER gotten over it, I was a little girl lol
@@bonnylouwho76 Me too!
me too. I still swoon over that scene.
Oh Maria Von Trapp was my first celebratity crush… Couldn't love her more… Why could someone be so pure, innocent, but sexy… Oh my God but I'm a girl😭!!!
@@CatherineZhang-kq2cm It's completely normal for anyone, no matter their orientation, can have a crush on anyone else. I know what you mean - the character had sooo many great qualities.
Ball of Fire-Gary Cooper/ Barbara Stanwyck..when Cooper goes into a darken room, thinking his friend is there but it’s Stanwyck , and declares his love for her and she kisses him..he’s embarrassed but goes from an awkward guy to a passionate man the second he puts his arms around her
Maria and the Captain Von Trapp dancing the Landlar.
I’ve only seen ONE of these movies, The Sound Of Music. But seeing as I’m a sucker for a good love story, I’ll have to find the others and watch them all (with a box of tissue on hand, of course).
I think that would be great if you watched all the movie. Don't miss The King And I, Random Harvest, Notorious too.
So glad to see Homer and Wilma’a scene from ‘The Best Years Of Our Lives’, on this list! 😀
This was the scene that made me cry big time. 😭 I absolutely loved how Harold Russell and Cathy O’ Donnell acted out this scene, and that it’s so beautifully written.
Seeing Wilma embrace Homer sent me into a blubbering mess, and it gave me the most wonderful wholesome feeling 🥰
‘The Best Years Of Our Lives’ deserves more recognition, but I’m certainly one of it’s great admirers 😍
It's my all time best scene! The beautiful shot of Homer in bed in the dark with happy tears running down his face...
@@christineparis5607 Beautifully shot by Gregg Toland! :)
Seeing Wilma embrace Homer brought tears to my eyes but the waterworks really get going when he embraces her back.
That wonderful movie....❤❤❤❤ And let's not forget Frederick March and Myrna Loy's beautiful scene, when they finally embrace after their embarassing first hours of reunion...It is silent but SO moving and true!!!
@@MFuria-os7ln
That part always makes me cry! My parents met while both working in the Navy, getting married in regular work clothes and moving from Alameda, Ca., to San Francisco, then to sleepy, old fashioned Palo Alto. The whole time I was growing up, they lived their life to music, collecting hundreds of records and dancing together practically every night. Mom introduced me the this movie, and we watched it all the time. I was the youngest, and I've outlived my entire family, but I still love this movie and the memories I have as well!🤩
Fully agree on number one!🥰 but the car scene of roman holiday or the ending just breaks my heart all the time! 😭💔
Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn in the Roman Holiday. The kissing scene before she has to say goodbye to him and return to the castle.
I'll ever forget the look of pure love on Wilma's face as she looks at Homer who is afraid she doesn't want him. This is my favorite and most tender of any love scene in the movies.
I adore Brief Encounter 😍
I agree with the above 10 and would add the walk home after the dance with Joel McCrae and Jean Arthur in The More the Merrier. Another 20 would not be hard to select.
Or when he two characters admit they love each other through the wall! Sooo romantic!
The balcony scene in Franco Zeferelli's Romeo and Juliet, with Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting. I was a senior in high school and I thought it was so romantic! By the end of the movie I was in tears!
Agreed!
I went to that 17 times during Christmas vacation senior year in high school. I could recite the whole movie.
Here are a few I would add:
Smithy finally remembers, and embraces Paula at the front door of their cottage (Random Harvest)
Charlie and Rose get married, thinking they're about to die; "I now pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution." (The African Queen)
Captain Gregg says goodbye to Lucy Muir (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir)
Nelson to Emma: "Now I've kissed you through two centuries" (That Hamilton Woman, a.k.a. Lady Hamilton)
Oh, and on the subject of Robin and Marian's exquisite love scene from The Adventures of Robin Hood: can we take a minute to appreciate Erich Wolfgang Korngold's gorgeous score? The music is nearly as crucial as Flynn and DeHavilland's performances in selling the romance.
Agreed!
I see The Sound of Music, I click
I would add the wonderful ending of “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” where Molly come into the room to find the brass bed and then a hat is flung onto the bed. Wow! It’s so romantic!
You should have put in the waltz scene in The King and I. They admit their love but it’s a love that can never be. It’s much more romantic than An American in Paris. You also should have had the Dancing in the Dark scene with Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire in Bandwagon or the Dancing on the ceiling from Royal Wedding. He’s so overcome with love he literally dances on the ceiling.
The Bandwagon one is wonderful!!!
The last scene of An Affair to Remember gets me every time ❤
My opinion I think that with the exception of the Sound of music they all seem so melodramatic. Perhaps it was a legacy of the Era. The Sound of music on the other hand was understated yet powerful.
Most romantic moment is in Casablanca but it's after Ilsa and Victor escape. It's when Rick tells Louis, "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
I mean...given the choice I'd run away with Claude Raines too.
Imagine a sequel from that point on. Wonderful.
Yes. An affair to remember has always, and will always be my most favorite movie. I can recite it backwards and forwards, and I thank God that my grandmother introduced me to this wonderful film.
Excellent choices! I totally love Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland's version of Robin Hood! Strongly recommend it especially for those who grew up with the Disney version of it.
Robin Hood has alway been a huge family favorite! If we all watch it together, we say all the lines~
The only moment in a film that makes me repeatedly tear up is at the end of "Random Harvest" where Greer Garson say to Ronald Colman, "Oh, Smithie!". THAT SHOULD BE NUMBER ONE !!!!
Oh, yeha, derifnitely a super moment. Forgot about that.
Yes!
Now that was/is emotional!
Swing time with Fred and Ginger was amazing. And that final scene took days to shoot.
Robin and Marian, Errol and Olivia,so wonderful
The only one I liked was the dance of the Sound of Music. But I wish that the telephone scene on It's a wonderful life was there. 😅
Roman Holiday and Brief Encounter are my favourite films ever. The (repressed) romantic tension and tragedy is just too much ❤
I absolutely love the Sound of Music scene
Nazi Germany.🎉
Yesss😭…
Including "Best Years of Our Lives" is a pro move--and there are at least two other scenes in the movie that equally qualify--when Frederic March returns home from the war and he and Myrna Loy meet for the first time--and the final wedding scene--where Teresa Wright and Dana Andrews look at each other as they listen to the wedding vows of Homer and Wilma--gets me every time. Then he proposes, telling her how tough marriage will be, and she accepts him still.
It’s a Wonderful Life when George (Jimmy Stewart) and Mary (Donna Reed) are on the phone with Sam in Mary’s house.
The scene in Notorious when Cary Grant rescues Ingrid Bergman has always been a favorite of mine. Although the scene in the wine cellar is also great.
My favorite movie
Ditto
I love that film ❤
Out of Africa the scene where Robert Redford washes Meryl.Streeps hair.
Random Harvest - “Smithie?” “Paula!”
I’m glad “Best Years Of Our Lives” was listed 😊
I watched this recently, never heard of it before. I found it "ahead of it's time" because it addressed the problems veterans had after returning from war, and, SO close to the end of the war. The scene in the bedroom, with Homer showing how life would be if his girlfriend friend (sorry forgotten her name) married him. Very special in that era....
One of my late mother's favorite films. She was one of the Greatest Generation. This film had meaning to her.
Kirk Douglas and Jean Simmons in several love scenes from Sparticus. Such contrast in her delicacy and his power.
Oh, yeah, forgot about those.
I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU DIDN'T INCLUDE THE MOST ROMANTIC MOVIE MOMENT EVER! PICNIC!! THE SLOW DANCE BETWEEN KIM NOVAK AND WILLIAM HOLDEN. When he places her hand on his heart, I melt. ❤❤❤❤❤
Anyone else need a top 20? 💕
I absolutely agree with others below who say its a travesty that the dance scene in The King and I was an afterthought. The intense look he gives her as she moves her arms behind her. Then he slowly walks toward her arm extended. OMG!!!! And then he does it AGAIN! THAT made me swoon. So maybe more sexy than romantic but really - to not even give it an honorable mention. For shame!
I always found that scene in the Sound of Music to be so romantic. Still love it.
Couldn't agree more✨… In this scene, they don't have some too intimate behaviors, but the chemistry is just overflowing and make my heart touched and broken… It's a dreamy romance beyond description……
Romantic moments in classic movies truly do hit differently & just as if not more magically! 🥰🥰🥰🥰
One of the sexiest love scenes in my mind is The dance scene in Picnic.
The last few scenes in Lili are very romantic, when Lili dances with the Puppets and realized, that all of them were Paul and then she recognized that Paul is in love with her and she loves him too. Lili with Leslie Caron and Mel Ferrer
I wholeheartedly agree with your number 1, but how could you NOT include the scene where he sees the portrait and realizes she is paralyzed??? The emotion on Cary Grant's face. That is one of the greatest moments in all of Hollywood history.
Completely agree.
And I too completely agree!!
I can't believe The King and I was only mentioned as an afterthought . The dance scene is one of the most romantic scenes on screen and it's filled with sexual tension
When Yul Brynner looks at her and puts his arm around her waist, it's magnificent!
I guess it's because they don't end up together. I love that scene (I love anything with Yul Brenner).
Yes, when he puts his hand on her waist ----- amazing!
When I saw the title I was sure it would be in the top 3
I fell in love with the dress.
An overlooked romantic scene is when St. Bernadette is traveling to the convent, and the boy who loves her stops the carriage to say goodbye. We know Bernadette has been convinced she cannot live a normal life of marriage & children after Mary appears to her (why, I'll never know why that should matter), and the boy hands her flowers and says he will never marry also. The look of love that passes between them, no touching, no kiss, just three-hankie understanding that they love each other and are denied that love when oh-so young is beautifully romantic.
The scene on To have and have not when Lauren Bacal kisses Bogart twice and says "'It's even better when you help" then the famous line ".
.You know how to whistle, don't you? Just put your lips together - and blow."
Breakfast at tiffanys has become one of my faves, in part because of the ending
They should make a Hollywood movie based on Olivia De Havilland and Errol Flynn's feelings for each other ❤
Really! My favorite is CAPTAIN BLOOD, when they were so young and new in Hollywood.
Robin Hood with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland… ❤❤❤
These are all great picks, but the whole "You Were Meant for Me" dance sequence from "Singin' in the Rain" should have at least gotten an honorable mention. So romantic especially after he did all that work to create "the proper setting".
That was the first film scene I ever appreciated the romance of as a child. It was so deeply intense I couldn't help feeling affected, young as I was.
Agreed!
In my humble opinion, the most sexually charged and romantic encounter in movies is the Moonglow sequence in "Picnic." One can feel the high voltage going through Bill Holden and Kim Novak, while they gracefully slide through the notes of Moonglow.
Oh, yes, tha is an amazing scene~~~very sexy indeed.
You're right. I think my husband had such a crush on Kim Novak.
Perfect choice for your #1 pick...I remember watching a screening of that movie right before Valentine's Day one year, and I couldn't stop sobbing once that scene happened because of how romantic and emotionally charged it was
Great picks. My favorite is Errol Flynn. I’ve watched all his movies many times. He’s possibly the most underrated actor Hollywood ever presented. Perhaps his lifestyle caught up with him but he gave so many stellar performances, many worthy of an Oscar and he was never even nominated which is inexcusable for such a talent. He was born to be in front of the camera, was completely natural, athletic and easily the most handsome guy ever. There’s no part he couldn’t play. Who wouldn’t fall in love with him?
I also loved the scene between Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero in "Camelot," when she visits him while he is sleeping ("If Ever I Would Leave You"). The first time I saw a romantic, passionate connection was when I watched "The Parent Trap" with Brian Keith and Maureen O'Hara.
The dance scene from Picnic.
As much as I loved Tony and Maria's "Somewhere" duet in the original, Rita Moreno absolutely slayed her cover version in the remake.
I heard Rita sang it while she had a cold. (I’m not sure if it was true).🤒
I am sure she did but taking it away from Maria and tony changes the meaning there’s a reason it made the list
My youngest daughter played "Maria" is a big production. She was only age 14 and she beat out all of the other college girls who auditioned. ( She was also trained in ballet.) Her long thick blonde hair was dyed black for the role.
The end of the dance scene of Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas in Romancing the Stone. They finish dancing and the background music and people fade away and it is just the 2 of them.
Another Cary Grant moment: the lift scene, Cary and Ingrid Bergman in the movie 'Indiscrete' ... Nothing is said, nothing is done, but oh, their eyes say it all ...!!!!
You showed a fleeting second of the wonderful ‘Shall We Dance’ from The King and I. It should have been at the top of the list on its own. Another one, maybe too recent, is the ending of An Officer and a Gentleman, where Richard Gere’s character comes into the paper bag factory and sweeps Debra Winger’s character off her feet and carries her out. 💋
I agree. "Shall We Dance" was wonderful.
There are a lot of really intense moments in Wuthering Heights (1939) between Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon.
Oh, yeah, totally agree!!!
The ending of Ladyhawke
The kiss in Knight without Armour
And, of course, the Laendler from The Sound of Music. Even at five, I knew something was going on between them.
The original Love Affair is better than An Affair to Remember.
I agree Ladyhawke would make the cut if it was for 80’s films but not for this “Classic”Hollywood “list
Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper in Love in the afternoon, the final scene madre me cry.
Agreed!
The dance scene in Picnic between William Holden and Kim Novak needs a mention. Totally romantic.
The closing scene from the Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) and the closing scene from Ghost (1990)
The love confession in The Adventures of Robin Hood is truly magical.
It's in my top 2 for sure.
I'm glad there's a Gene Kelly musical somewhere on this list - he played lovestruck SO well, both through his acting and his dancing. I personally would've rather picked something from Singin' in the Rain, though - either one of the scenes between Don and Kathy or the dream ballet within the dream ballet, with Cyd Charisse in her white outfit.
And there weren't as many animated films to pick from back then, but I'll give a nod to the Prince serenading Snow White while she smiles down at him from the balcony : )