Madame X

This 1929 movie with Ruth Chatterton is stagy.  I've seen better work from Ruth Chatterton.  A later movie called Frisco Jenny which featured Ruth Chatterton too has basically the same plot but is a much better movie.  Ruth also did a better job in that movie as well.  I would skip this one.  

Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi

Half of this Bollywood musical is about a beautiful woman (Madhubala) who needs her car fixed and forgets to pay the mechanic.  There's not much plot in the first half but it's cute.  Then a murder plot is involved and I didn't care for this direction.  There should have been more focus in this movie.  Half the reviews on Netflix complain about the lack of subtitles so I guess I was lucky.  

The Blackbird

This was a pretty good silent movie.  Lon Chaney was always an awesome actor and villain.  He plays two roles here a crippled preacher and a criminal.  People think they're brothers but it's Lon Chaney playing with people.  The girl he likes the innocent Renee Adoree falls for a thief herself.  He doesn't think the thief is worthy of her (but then neither he is.)  So he plans a plot.  However, Lon gets his just desserts in the end.  Lon Chaney's silents are always worth discovering.

Vigil in the Night

This is one of Carole Lombard's few dramatic pieces and she does all right.  She plays a nurse who covers up for one of her sister Anne Shirley's mistakes.  However, it doesn't really solve the problem as Anne gets slipping up. I like Anne Shirley and was enchanted by her performance in Anne of Green Gables.  She was a nice presence in Hollywood.  This movie was just ok.  

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

Shahrukh Khan is friends in college with Kajol a tomboy.  She falls for him romantically.  However, he has another girl in mind the pretty Rani Mukherjee.  Soon Kajol leaves the college.  It isn't until his kid has an interest in getting the two back together that he sees a more feminine Kajol again.  However, she's engaged to Salman Khan.  This is one of the better Indian movies I've seen.  It was fun and the characters were likable.  I recommend it.  

Weekend at the Waldorf

This is a mediocre remake of Grand Hotel.  I haven't watched the Greta Garbo movie in years but I really need to.  I remember that being enchanting.  This was slow and long 2 hours and 10 minutes.  The best part of the movie was Ginger Rogers who plays a reluctant Hollywood star.  Lana Turner was also in this.  

Ready, Willing and Able

So so musical.  Ruby Keeler is cute in it.  There's a dance on an enormous typewriter and there's one really good song Too Marvelous for Words.  However, this movie did introduce me to Wini Shaw whose voice blew my sister and I away.  So we are going to search for more movies with her.