Exclusive: okto’s November FilmArt–Legends1

Gone with the Wind (1 Nov, 8pm) On the eve of the American Civil War, rich, beau­ti­ful and self-centered Scarlett O’Hara (Leigh) has every­thing she could want–except Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard). But as the war dev­as­tates the South, Scarlett dis­cov­ers the strength within her­self to pro­tect her fam­ily and rebuild her life. Through every­thing, she longs for Ashley, unaware that she is already mar­ried to the man she really loves (Gable)–and who truly loves her–until she finally dri­ves him away. Only then does Scarlett real­ize what she has lost… and decide to win him back. - One of the great­est clas­sic American movies – Won 10 Academy Awards®, includ­ing Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, Hattie McDaniel, the first Oscar awarded to an African-American Actor Singin’ in the Rain (8 Nov, 10pm) Musician Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) rises to star­dom dur­ing Hollywood’s silent-movie era paired with the beau­ti­ful, jeal­ous and dumb Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen). When Lockwood becomes attracted to young stu­dio singer Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds), Lamont has her fired. But with the intro­duc­tion of talk­ing pic­tures, audi­ences laugh when they hear Lockwood speak for the first time and the stu­dio uses Selden to dub her voice. Set dur­ing the advent of “talkies,” this film’s clas­sic song-and-dance num­bers cel­e­brate the begin­ning of movie musicals. Casablanca (15 Nov, 10pm) “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.” Academy Award win­ners Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman light up the screen in one of the most endur­ing romances in movie his­tory — Casablanca. Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart — The African Queen, The Caine Mutiny) owns a night­club in Vichy-controlled Casablanca, fre­quented by refugees des­per­ate to escape German dom­i­na­tion. Despite the ever-present human mis­ery, Rick man­ages to remain unin­volved in World War II now rag­ing across Europe and Northern Africa. But all that changes when Ilsa Lund (Ingrid  Bergman — Gaslight, Notorious) walks through the front door of Rick’s club — Rick must now choose between a life with the woman he loves and becom­ing the hero that both she and the world need. - Academy Award Winner : Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay – Academy Award Nominations for Best Actor (Humphrey Bogart), Best Supporting Actor (Claude Rains), Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Score Ocean’s 11 (1960) (22 Nov, 10pm) The orig­i­nal Rat Pack — Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop–star with Angie Dickenson in the orig­i­nal Ocean’s 11. Eleven pals pre­pare to carry out a – the­o­ret­i­cally — fool­proof plan to rob five Las Vegas casi­nos at mid­night on New Year’s Eve. The plan depends on split-second tim­ing, and every­thing goes like clock­work at first. But even in this almost per­fect scheme, things begin to go wrong.

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