In The Best Old Movies for Families, Ty Burr presents a wide array of classic films--breaking them out by age and genre--to help introduce the delights of the golden age of movies. Scroll down to browse the complete list of recommended films and roundups of major stars and directors of the Hollywood studio age, and click on the links to find out more. THE STARS Fred Astaire Humphrey Bogart James Cagney Gary Cooper Joan Crawford Bette Davis Marlene Dietrich Henry Fonda Clark Gable Greta Garbo Judy Garland Cary Grant Audrey Hepburn Katharine Hepburn Marilyn Monroe Barbara Stanwyck Jimmy Stewart Shirley Temple John Wayne THE DIRECTORS Frank Capra George Cukor John Ford Howard Hawks Alfred Hitchcock Michael Powell Nicholas Ray Preston Sturges Billy Wilder THE MOVIES Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Adam's Rib The Adventures of Robin Hood The African Queen All About Eve An American in Paris Anna Karenina The Apartment Arsenic and Old Lace The Asphalt Jungle Baby Face Ball of Fire The Band Wagon The Big Heat Bigger Than Life The Birds Born Yesterday Breakfast at Tiffany's Bride of Frankenstein Bringing Up Baby Bye Bye Birdie Camille Captain Blood Carousel Casablanca Cat People Charade The Clock The Court Jester D.O.A. Dancing Lady Dark Victory The Day the Earth Stood Still Destry Rides Again Dial M for Murder Double Indemnity Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Dracula Dracula's Daughter Duck Soup Easter Parade Easter Parade Edison: The Invention of the Movies Fear Strikes Out Fiddler on the Roof The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T Flesh and the Devil Footlight Parade Forbidden Planet Foreign Correspondent The 49th Parallel Frankenstein Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man Freaks Funny Face Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Ghost of Frankenstein The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Gilda The Gold Rush The Golden Coach (Le Carrosse d'or) Golden Earrings The Grapes of Wrath Great Expectations Hail to the Conquering Hero A Hard Day's Night Harvey The Harvey Girls Heidi Help! High Noon His Girl Friday House of Dracula House of Frankenstein How Green Was My Valley Humoresque I Confess I Know Where I'm Going! Imitation of Life In a Lonely Place The Incredible Shrinking Man Invasion of the Body Snatchers The Invisible Man It Happened One Night It's a Gift It's a Wonderful Life It's Always Fair Weather Jailhouse Rock Jane Eyre Jezebel Johnny Guitar The Killers King Creole The King and I King Kong Kiss of Death La Belle et la Bette The Lady Eve The Lady Vanishes Laura Leave Her to Heaven Lifeboad The Little Colonel Little Miss Marker The Little Princess Little Women The Lost Weekend Lust for Life The Maltese Falcon The Man Who Knew Too Much The Manchurian Candidate Marnie Mary Poppins Meet Me in St. Louis Metropolis A Midsummer Night's Dream Mildred Pierce Monkey Business Mr. and Mrs. Smith Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Mr. Smith Goes to Washington The Mummy The Music Box The Music Man Mutiny on the Bounty My Fair Lady My Man Godfrey Mysterious Island The Narrow Margin National Velvet Night and the City A Night at the Opera Ninotchka North by Northwest Nosferatu the Vampire Notorious Now, Voyager The Nutty Professor Ohayo / Good Morning Oklahoma! The Old Dark House Oliver! On the Town On the Waterfront Only Angels Have Wings Orphans of the Storm The Ox-Bow Incident The Palm Beach Story Pather Panchali Peter Ibbetson The Phantom of the Opera The Philadelphia Story Pickup on South Street Pillow Talk The Pirate The Pride of the Yankees The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex Psycho The Public Enemy Queen Christina The Quiet Man Rear Window Rebecca Rebel Without a Cause Red Dust Red River The Red Shoes Remember the Night Rio Bravo Roman Holiday Rope Sabotage Saboteur Safety Last! The Searchers Secret Agent Seven Brides for Seven Brothers The Seven Samurai Shadow of a Doubt Shane The Shanghai Express Sherlock Jr. The Shop Around the Corner Singin' in the Rain Small Change Some Like It Hot Son of Dracula Son of Frankenstein South Pacific Spellbound Splendor in the Grass Stage Door Stage Fright Stagecoach Stairway to Heaven (aka A Matter of Life and Death) A Star Is Born Stella Dallas Strangers on a Train The Sweet Smell of Success Sullivan's Travels Sunrise Sunset Blvd. Suspicion Swing Time Sylvia Scarlett Teacher's Pet The Ten Commandments They Live By Night They Were Expendable The Theif of Baghdad The Thin Man The Third Man The 39 Steps To Catch a Thief To Each His Own To Have and Have Not To Kill a Mockingbird Top Hat Torch Song Torn Curtain Touch of Evil The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 12 Angry Men Twentieth Century The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Unfaithfully Yours Vertigo Wee Willie Winkie The Werewolf of London West Side Story White Heat Witness for the Prosecution The Wizard of Oz The Wolf Man The Women The Wrong Man Yankee Doodle Dandy Young and Innocent Young Mr. Lincoln Zazie dans le Metro Enter your child's age below for movie suggestions tailored to their age group! 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