Names From Old Movies!

[jamee29]

I watched an old movie yesterday on AMC that was made in 1954. It was set in the time period from the 1850's when our great and great great grand parent's names were all that. The name of the movie was "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers". The fashions made me think about stereotypes and one of the songs in this musical included the lyrics " Someday those Women Folk will have Rights too"! It made me laugh......but our poor Grandma's!

The brothers were:

Adam
Gideon
Benjamin
Caleb
Daniel
Frank
Ephraim

and their Brides were:

Milly
Alice
Dorcas
Sarah
Ruth
Liza
Martha

It got me thinking how cool it is that a lot of these names are coming back or have been popular in the past 20 years or are still popular. I really do Love all of these names!

What are some Old Movie names that you Love?

[frankie97]

Oh, I really love to watch old movies! My Mom and I sometimes make an evening of it with a bowl of popcorn I have a lot, but my all time favorite is "It's a Wonderful Life". The names just like the movie are definate classics.

Mary
George
Billy
Tommy
Pete
Janie
Zuzu ( I LOVE THIS ONE!)
Franklin
Joseph
Clarence
Harry
Violet
Henry (Potter)
Ernie
Bert
Giuseppe
Tilly
Annie
Sam
Peter
Ruth
Nick
Freddie
Eustace
....and of course Bailey!

[violetgray]

I love Old Movies. Some of my favorites are:

Margo Channing (All About Eve)
Rose ( The Little Princess)
Anya (Roman Holiday)
Eliza Dolittle (My Fair Lady)
Holly Golightly (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
Fred Gailey (Miracle on 34th Street)
Maggie Prescott (Funny Face)
Jemima (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
Truly Scrumptious (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)

[shvibziks]

I'm a cinephile too and I love classic films.

From Notorious (1946):
T.R. Devlin
Alicia Huberman
Anna Sebastian

From Jezebel (1938):
Julia Marsden
Preston Dillard
Belle Massey
Theopholus Bogardus (loving this one)
Zette

From Of Human Bondage (1934):
Mildred Rogers
Sally Athelny

From The Red Shoes (1948):
Vicky Page
Grischa Ljubov
Irina Boronskaja
Livingstone "Livy" Montagne

[milly11199]

I adore the old Joan Crawford and Bette Davis movies! Also, the old Alfred Hitchcock films. I began my DVD collection about 4 years ago!

Some of my favorites are

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Baby Jane
Blanche
Edwin
Dehlia
Elvira
Ray
Ben
Marty
Cora
Shelby

Mildred Pierce
Mildred
Vida
Ida
Lottie
Kay
Bert (this was really used a lot in the old movies)
Wally

The Unknown and Straight Jacket as well as
Trog - Joan was Truly degraded and had bad reviews in this film, but it is truly one of the funniest horror classics.

Lucy
Carol
Bill
Leo
Frank
Emily
Alonzo
Nanon
Malabar
Antoio
Cojo
Costra
Gypsy
Sam
Anne
Bill
Cliff
Malcolm

and of course the classic Hitchcock Tales

The Birds
Tippi - Melanie
Rod - Mitch
Lydia
Cathy
Annie
Sebastian
Helen

Psycho
Norman
Marion
Lila
Sam
Caroline
George
Charlie

Love the old chilling classics with such classic names!

[ottilie]

I love old movies, my favourite names from my favourite films:

How Green Was My Valley:

Merddyn Gruffydd
Angharad
Bronwyn (Bronwen in the book)
Gwilym
Huw
Ianto
Beth
Cyfartha
Ivor
Mr. Jonas
Ceinwen
Davy
Owen
Dai Bando
Iestyn

Last name of the family is Morgan. In the book there's also a Ceridwen and an Olwen.

Gilda:
Gilda
Johnny
Ballin
Maurice
Pio
Casey
Gabe
Thomas
Huerta
Maria

Casablanca:
Rick Blaine
Ilsa Lund
Victor Laszlo

You Can't Take It With You:
Alice
Penny
Martin
Tony
Essie

All About Eve:
Margo
Eve
Addison (m)
Karen
Bill
Lloyd
Birdie
Max
Phoebe

Giant:
Leslie
Jordan (m)
Jett
Vashti
Mort
Luz

Darling:
Diana
Robert
Miles
Cesare
Malcolm
Felicity
Basil
Estelle

[agent99]

One of my favorite old movie names is Jean Harlows character Vantine in Red Dust