Swankiest flicks?

[JeffOYB]

This has to be an old list, done well and hiding here somewhere but I couldn't find it. Anyway, for movies featuring the swankiest lines, outfits and scenes (cars, cities, buildings), how about...

The Thin Man
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Playtime
La Vita Dolce

Keep adding!

I don't know how to limit this periodwise, but I'm thinking 50's-60's has to rule the roost in this regard.

 

[bunnyb.gal]

I'm thinking Art Deco opulence, Cedric Gibbons-designed sets, more 30's?

 

[dhermann1]

How about the ball scene in War and Peace? Hard to top that. And how about just about every frame of Gigi?

 

[Dixon Cannon]

The whole look of 'Swell Hogan' (1926) - swanky defined!

-dixon cannon

 

[fortworthgal]

Modern, yes, but Miller's Crossing, hands down.

 

[Wally_Hood]

Modern, yes, but Miller's Crossing, hands down.

When I think of swank, it's Nick and Nora. When I think of Miller's Crossing, gritty noir comes to mind. But as Mark Twain said,"It's differences of opinion that makes horse races..."

 

[vitanola]

"Our Dancing Daughters"

"Our Modern Maidens" ain't on the Bowery, neither!

 

[LizzieMaine]

For me, the list begins and ends with "Trouble In Paradise." Nobody did swank like Paramount c. 1932.

 

[scotrace]

Manhattan Melodrama has a seriously swanky Art Deco bathroom....

 

[BinkieBaumont]

I'm thinking Art Deco opulence, Cedric Gibbons-designed sets, more 30's?

"Cedric & then wife, Delores Del Rio in their own Sitting Room,why not check out "Screen Deco" by Howard Mandlelbaum & Eric Myers"