Charlie Chaplin was born on April 16, 1889, in London England. His birth name was Charles Spencer Chaplin, though he had many nicknames growing up such as Charlie, Charlot, and The Little Tramp. His father, Charles Chaplin, and his mother, Hannah Chaplin, were inducted into the music hall of fame, leading the way to his exposure even as a young boy.

There are many reasons why we need to remember classic movies. Classic movies have some of the best story lines and have opened up the doors to the great movies that we have all come to love today.

In 1965, a great classic movie, The Sound of Music, was produced in accordance to the Broadway musical that had songs written by Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers.

That’s the basis of one of the best movies about old Hollywood of all times: “Singin’ in the Rain”. The film is one of the classics it is because of the marvelous direction of Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, two men who knew a lot about musicals. The screen play is by one of the best people in the business, Betty Comden and Adolph Green.

Charlton Heston is well-cast as Ben-Hur, a role that plays right to his strengths. The strained relations between Ben-Hur and Messala provide one set of themes for the story, as well as driving much of the action. Heston handles his end of it pretty well, although Stephen Boyd could have been a little less static in his portrayal of Messala.

Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress noted for her starring roles in American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute.

Clark Cable was one of the best known actors of all time in the great classic movies that we have all come to love over the years. He was born in Cadiz, Ohio on February 1st, 1901 and his birth name was William Clark Gable. He went by many nicknames over the years such as Gabe, The King, The King of Hollywood, and Pa.

The world famous Cary Grant, born January 18, 1904, in Bristol, England, was one of the most famously known actors of all times and had contributed a ton to the success of how actors perform today. If you can just about any actor in the world today about Cary Grant, you will quickly find that many still look up to him and implement his acting skills into their own careers.

The classic movie, Casablanca, was released in 1943 when it rapidly gained popularity as one of the best movies of its time. The movie of Casablanca was set out to be one of the most organized films in the world, though even some Hollywood producers still claim that it was a total train wreck.

Katharine Hepburn, born Katharine Houghton Hepburn, on May 12, 1907 in Harford, Connecticut was the daughter of a doctor and a suffragette. Her parents taught her to speak her mind, develop it fully and exercise her body to its full potential.