The couple I'd most like to see on the big screen is...

It's a real shame these two legends only made two movies together. Their chemistry and charisma together made BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID and THE STING absolute classics! I heard rumors that they may team up again, but it feels to me like too little too late.

As I believe someone said - He gave her class and she gave him sex appeal. I treasure all the Astaire and Rogers films.

Lemmon and Matthau-teriffic together!. A close sdecond is Tracy and Hepburn.

Fred, I think it was Roger Ebert who said that in his book, THE GREAT MOVIES.

Yeah, I think that Newman and Redford's time is passed. I know that Lemmon and Matthau re-teamed near the end. But their work at that time didn't have spunk that their earlier work did.

As a young movie buff, R2D2 and C3PO are the couple for a post Golden Age of Hollywood Generation, those who were raised on Coppola, Lucas, and Scorsese. In the future, when Star Wars celebrates its 100th birthday, robots will discover the Hollywood classic as much as us humans!!!

You forgot about Laurel and Hardy and Abbot and Costello?

i can't believe Reynolds/DeLuise is not an option...that would be my pick!

How about Peter Sellers and himself as aperfect team?

Or Doris Day and Rock Hudson?

Well, my first pick would be Rex Harrison and Jean Tierney, who I felt truly exuded the most perfect on-screen chemistry I've ever seen in the late 1940s classic, THE GHOST & MRS. MUIR.

Other famous on-screen couplings that come to mind and that I really liked were Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in BONNIE & CLYDE, Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood in SPLENDER IN THE GRASS, Steve McQueen and Natalie Wood in LOVE WITH THE PERFECT STRANGER, William Holden and Nancy Kwan in THE WORLD OF SUZY WONG, Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe in THE MISFITS, and the most noteworthy on-screen coupling of all time that I don't think anyone will ever top: Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh in GONE WITH THE WIND.

I've been fortunate to have seen this couple many times on the big screen, and there is nothing in the world to compare to a movie theater presentation of "The Big Sleep!" You might have Paris, but I'll always have that night I said "farewell" to New Haven York Square with Bogart and Bacall at their finest!

I also enjoyed Jeanette McDonald and Nelson Eddy

Since others are offering "pair-fect" suggestions in addition to your list, let me just mention these teams, the like of which we'll never see again, and who brought us so much entertainment and enjoyment:
Roy Rogers and Gabby Hayes
Huntz Hall and Leo Gorcey
Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride
Also, a special tip of the derby to Theaterat for mentioning Stan & Babe and A&C!

From the Metro lot:
June Allyson and Van Johnson
Walter Pidgeon and Greer Garson
William Powell and Myrna Loy
Tom and Jerry

And Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, of course.

Bogie and Bacall, what a team. What can you say, the chemistry between them on the screen, they were having sex, without having sex.

What about Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslett being paired up to star together again? For maybe it's just me, but I thought they were excellent together in TITANIC.

Other possible re-pairings, what about Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda? Meantime, what a great tragedy River Phoenix's death was, as he and Will Wheaton on screen together in STAND BY ME was a true natural.

Finally, in terms of great on-screen pairings in the past, no one's mentioned Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, who were fantastic together in WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE. Hey, no one said they have to like each other on screen, did they?!

And while there's no question about the great chemistry between Bogie and Bacall, I thought the pairing of Bogie with Ingrid Bergman in CASSABLANCA was pretty great too!

Just had to respond to TheaterBuff1-You said it! Had Bogart and Bergman been an option in the original poll, there would have been no question! After Casablanca, probably every man in some way has measured his mate against Ingrid Bergman, or aspired at one time or another to display Rick's demeanor!

I'm ready to see Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci together on screen again!

Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster?

Frankie and Annette?

Tim Conway and Harvey Korman?

The twin fairies in Mothra?

Fedoozle, the homage that Woody Allen payed to Bogie and Bergman with his 1972 comedy classic, PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM, brings to mind another classic on-screen match-up: Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, who not only recreated the Bogie/Bergman chemistry in that film, but were also paired together in other films as well.

Theater Buff: Davis and Crawford just didn't not like each other. Their mutual hatred was apparently legendary. One story making the rounds claims that Bette Davis, after Joan Crawford had died, was being interviewed on one of the tv talk shows. She had some disparaging remarks to make about Crawford. The host interrupted, saying "You know, you should only speak good of the dead". Davis paused for a minute, lit a cigarette, inhaled deeply, then waving it in the air in one of her signature gestures said "Joan's dead!...Good!" With that she flipped her lighter into her purse and exhaled cigarette smoke across the set. Whether or not this is true,
I've never been able to verify, but it's so characteristic of her that it's easy to visualize.

Well whatever the truth was about those two, it sure worked out beautifully on screen, though perhaps in stark contrast to reality, what with Joan Crawford cast as the "good" one, and Bette Davis cast as hopelessly evil. If that's true what you say about Davis that is a real classic. Given Davis' demeanor I can easily picture it. (Was the TV talk show Tom Snyder by any chance?) Meantime I've always had doubts about that whole "Mommy Dearest" thing with regard to Crawford. But if Davis really did say that, maybe there's some truth to it after all. In any event, Davis and Crawford in WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE has got to be one of the greatest on-screen couplings of all time in my opinion.

Meantime, another on-screen coupling that comes to mind that I really liked and that I thought worked beautifully -- ironically -- was Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe in THE MISFITS. For keep in mind the very idea of the movie was to put across the sense that they were mismatches, and boy, did those two ever pull it off beautifully!

Just heard on NBC's Extra tonight (August 9, 2007) that DiCaprio and Winslett are about to have another movie coming out soon where they'll be starring together once more. And if it goes over well, or anything like Titanic did, maybe they'll go down in cinema history as one of the most famous and popular on-screen couples of the 21st century.

If Martin & Lewis are listed where are Abbott & Costello and Laurel & Hardy?