Two Weeks in Another Town

This was Vincente Minnelli's other movie about Hollywood, the first being the superior The Bad and Beautiful.  Even though it has the same director and some of the same cast it just wasn't the same.  I found this movie shallow and I just didn't care about the main characters.  Daliah Lavi was gorgeous.  The main reason why I watched this is that I'm a fan of singer Leslie Uggams.  She sings here for 30 seconds.  Otherwise, this movie has nothing memorable about it.   

Broadway Musketeers

This is a want to be "Three on a Match" and it's ok but it's not as memorable. The three actresses of this movie Ann Sheridan, Margaret Lindsay, and Marie Wilson play women who grew up in an orphanage together and decide to keep in touch.  However, Lindsay dumps her husband and loses custody of her child.   Lindsay eventually begins to realize what a mistake she made. Ann Sheridan marries that husband and takes care of Lindsay's child.  Marie Wilson doesn't have much to do here.  (Ann Sheridan plays a nightclub singer at the beginning of the movie and sings her own songs.  This is before she quits her career for a domestic one.)  It's only around an hour so it was worth watching.

Fight for your Lady

Jackie Oakie plays a wrestling manager who is also a matchmaker for a singer.  When the singer is dumped Jackie tries to set the singer up with Ida Lupino.  The amazing thing about this movie is that Ida Lupino is very pretty here.  That's not to say she wasn't a beautiful actress it's just that she was always moused up or played a tough girl.  This is a completely different role for her.  She was a pretty versatile actress.  The movie is just ok.  I liked it mostly because of Ida Lupino.

The Errand Boy

I got this because the jazz vocalist Pat Dahl is in it.  I own her only album.  I think she plays the girl who can sing with "Lover."  There's little plot.  It's mostly just gags done by Jerry Lewis (who also directed this.)  The one I liked the best was the one with the jelly beans.  His best so far by a long shot was The Nutty Professor.  I don't think he's as bad as people make him out to be though. 

Lilith

I watched this when I was a teenager and I loved it.  Twenty years passed and during that time I got diagnosed with OCD and bipolar and went through two breakdowns.  The whole romanticizing of mental illness in movies is unsettling to me.  I thought it was a good movie though.  It just didn't hold up to what I made of it.   Apparently, this was Jean Seberg's favorite movie of hers, although I think it's easily Breathless.  Jean Seberg plays a schizophrenic nymphomaniac.  Warren Beatty plays the therapist who falls for her.  Peter Fonda plays a man she leads on.  I'll probably read the book it's based on again.  I remember liking it. For Jean Seberg fans this is a must.

Murder!

I didn't really care for this early Alfred Hitchcock movie.  It was mediocre.  It's the standard jury movie where Herbert Marshall just has a feeling that the person didn't do it.  If you want to watch a great early Hitchcock movie watch The Lodger.  Still, it wasn't a waste.  I like Herbert Marshall and he was an excellent actor who had plenty of work in the 30's and 40's.  

Night Court

I really liked this movie.  It had a nice twist ending.  Anita Page is one of my favorite actresses from the 30's and she plays a good girl whose name's been slandered.  It's about a corrupt judge who sentences the innocent Anita Page to jail.  Her husband can't believe that she committed a crime. He goes out to investigate the case for himself.  Eventually, the judge gets what's coming to him.  Anita Page was a versatile actress but this isn't my favorite performance from her.   It was Our Dancing Daughters where she played a bad girl.