A classic silent melodrama starring AFI Life Achievement Award honoree Lillian Gish, director D.W. Griffith’s WAY DOWN EAST (1920) was additionally named by the American Film Institute among cinema’s most romantic tales. Visit the AFI Catalog to learn more about WAY DOWN EAST. Have Get The Picture delivered to your inbox every day. SIGN UP...

Featuring Mae West and Cary Grant – both named by the American Film Institute among the greatest screen legends of all time – SHE DONE HIM WRONG (1933) was also included among AFI’s accounting the art form’s greatest comedies, and West’s iconic line – “Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?” – appears...