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Yes! I'm a fan of classic Hollywood. My degree course required that I become very familiar with the studio system of the Golden Age of Hollywood. I wasn't keen at first, preferring more modern films but then I came to properly understand and love the old ones. Knowing about the how the studios operated in those days really helped me to appreciate them. By far my favourite studio was Warner Bros; I got through hundreds of their old films during research for my final year dissertation, which focused on what it took to be a star in that period between the advent of sound and the start of WWII - in particular James Cagney (gangster films), Humphrey Bogart (melodramas) and Errol Flynn (swashbucklers).
Apart from that I also liked those screwball comedies (Bringing Up Baby, Ball of Fire, etc), the old Universal horrors (Frankenstein, The Invisible Man) and some early Westerns (Stagecoach, Destry Rides Again).
Great to have someone so like-minded joining the fun here! There's a thread in the main discussion about old-style Hollywood publicity shots you should check out if you didn't already.
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