Best on-screen couple

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From all the countless films and TV shows where an actor and actress have to play at being married, lovers etc, etc...

Which pairing to you do you think was the best/most convincing/had the greatest chemistry?

― C J (C J), Monday, 19 April 2004 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Cary Grant and Irene Dunne in 'The Awful Truth' and 'My Favourite Wife'. Spencer Tracey and Katherine Hepburn in 'Adam's Rib'. Richard Briers and Felicity Kendall in 'The Good Life'. Hank and Peggy in 'King of the Hill'.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 19 April 2004 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant in His Girl Friday

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 19 April 2004 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Gomez and Morticia Addams

― robster (robster), Monday, 19 April 2004 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

shout for Bruce Willis and Cybil Shepherd in Moonlighting, tho most of the time their dynamic was based on unrequited love and sexually charged friction

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 19 April 2004 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder in "The Producers"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 19 April 2004 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Lenny and Carl.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 19 April 2004 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Tatu.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 19 April 2004 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Angel and Spike.

― Barima (Barima), Monday, 19 April 2004 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

The best onscreen romantic trio has gotta be Katharine Hepburn-Cary Grant-James Stewart in "The Philadelphia Story". The best duo is harder to choose, maybe the two girls in "Show Me Love" (aka "Fucking Åmål"), can't remember their names.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 19 April 2004 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I always wanted to see Show Me Love, any good?

― Barima (Barima), Monday, 19 April 2004 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, maybe the best teenage romance pic ever.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 19 April 2004 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Big Sleep?

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 19 April 2004 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Barima don't you mean Buffy?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 19 April 2004 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

No.

― Barima (Barima), Monday, 19 April 2004 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Cary Grant and just about anybody. Hepburn/Grant esp. fab.

Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed in Wonderful Life.

John Malkovich and Glenn Close in Dangerous Liasons. Vivienne Leigh and Calrk Gable in Gone with the Wind.

Thatcher and Reagan

― badger Kitten (badger Kitten), Monday, 19 April 2004 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I really love John Cusack and Minnie Driver in Gross Pointe Blank. I've never believed that characters were in love so much as them.

― Magic City (ano ano), Monday, 19 April 2004 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Richard Briers and Felicity Kendall in The Good Life
Richard Briers and Penelope Wilton in Ever Decreasing Circles
Dylan Moran and Charlotte Coleman in How Do You Want Me?

No one else, ever.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 19 April 2004 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

jack lemmon and shirley maclaine in the apartment. throw in mean, evil old fred mcmurray, and you've got one of the best triangles.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 19 April 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Uma Thurman/David Carradine

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 April 2004 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, it just occurs to me: the mom and dad in 'Donnie Darko'.

And Ant and Dec. And Mike and Pam in 'Crystal Palace Story'.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 19 April 2004 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Martin Freeman & Lucy Davis in The Office.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 19 April 2004 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

No, rubbish. They will not last.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 19 April 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Clark Gable & Carole Lombard in 'No Man of Her Own'

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 19 April 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Hart to Hart: Robert Wagner and Stephanie Powers

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Monday, 19 April 2004 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.tvguide.com/movies/dbpix/images/31240a.jpg

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 19 April 2004 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely it is Gable and... Colbert in 'It Happened One Night'?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 19 April 2004 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Karl and Susan Kennedy. Hands down.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 19 April 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Jerry, of course you could also pair Gable and Crawford in several movies and come out ahead. Powell and Loy, anyone?

Delon and LaForet in 'Plein Soleil'?

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 19 April 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Vaughan [Alais] and a sack of doorknobs would make a great couple.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 19 April 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung in 'In the Mood for Love'.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 19 April 2004 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

whoa. weird. a book just came from my mother in the last post: investigating couples: a critical analysis of the thin man, the avengers, and the x-files

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 19 April 2004 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Did she buy that for you? That is odd.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 19 April 2004 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

anna and otto from lovers of the arctic circle. no idea who the actors are.

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 19 April 2004 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Laura Linney & Mark Ruffalo.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 19 April 2004 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Lenny and Carl.

Lenny and Squiggy.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Did she buy that for you? That is odd.

yes, she did. i assume her reasoning was that i like the thin man books/movies and the avengers, and that i used to watch the x-files. it makes sense, but it is kind of a strange thing to just send out of the blue.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Marge and Homer!

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

harry + sally. despite what nay-sayers r bound 2 say.
genuine chemistry right there.
esp the cheek2cheek bit.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Another vote for Nick & Nora Charles

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Some suggestions from my main squeeze:

Vivien and Larry - Lady Hamilton
Ingrid Bergman/Cary Grant - Notorious
Daniel Day-Lewis/Lena Olin/Juliette Binoche - Unbearable Lightness of Being
Powell and Loy - Absolutely anything they did
Gable/Colbert - absolutely
Janet Gaynor and George O'Brien - Sunrise

AND, oh yeah, Herbert Marshall, Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis - Twuble in
Pawadise
and James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan in Shop Around the Corner

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Shop Around the Corner is great! I even liked the remake ("You've Got Mail"), though I may be the only one.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

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