My Gal Sal

This is another one of those composer movies.  They were popular at that time.  This time it's focused on Paul Dresser.  Carole Landis is early on in this movie when he's trying to make it and she's a treat.  Victor Mature becomes infatuated with Rita Hayworth, a singer, and dancer. Rita has a lot of charisma in this movie as usual. Rita Hayworth was dubbed by Nan Wynn, a 40's singer who did a bit of dubbing for movies around that time.  It would be nice if someone organized a collection of her songs.  She was featured on the Art Deco Sophisticated Ladies collection which featured ignored and popular female singers from the 20's through 40's.

I wonder who's kissing her now

I like June Haver.  She was a good fun musical actress of the 40's and 50's.  She quit to marry Fred Macmurray.  I've asked companies who reissue old music to release a cd of songs from her movies.  They've never replied.  She is not as remembered as Betty Grable or Alice Faye so that's probably why there isn't interest.  This movie is one of those composer movies.  It's about Joe H. Howard, the songwriter of Hello, my baby.  June Haver plays his stepsister.  He keeps going to other women while she's been there the whole time.  I liked how I was able to recognize some of the tunes.

That Lady in Ermine

This is definitely not one of Betty's best pictures.  She plays a woman just married to Cesar Romero.  The leader of the Hungarians Douglas Fairbanks Jr. falls for an ancestor of Betty who looks just like her,  That woman steps out of a painting.  This movie got confusing at times.  

Tugboat Annie

I really like Marie Dressler in this.  She was definitely a different movie star of the time. She wasn't glamorous.  Dressler looked like someone you might see at your church but she had a strong personality.  Wallace Beery stars as her drunk husband who is always messing up.  Meanwhile, their son has made something of himself.  Marie tries to pull things together throughout the movie.

Wonder Bar

I'm not an Al Jolson fan so that affects my opinion of this movie. Busby Berkeley did the numbers and that's the real treat of the movie.  There's not much plot.  Dolores Del Rio and Kay Francis star and they're awesome like always.

Little Old New York

This is about the invention of the steam engine by Robert Fulton.  Alice Faye works in a pub and has a crush on him.  There's only one song that she sings and it's with people.  I was disappointed in that.  I haven't seen an old movie yet about an inventor that I really like.

Frisco Jenny

Ruth Chatterton plays a madam who has to give up her son because child protection keeps snooping around.  She has a plan that she'll give him to a nice family and pick him up later.  Only the plan falls through.  Her son grows up and becomes a district attorney.  She's in trouble with the law.  So the two paths cross.  Chatterton is pretty good in this.  The ending wasn't as I expected.  Overall a good precode.