The Gilded Lily

This movie is just ok.  Claudette Colbert plays a woman who has to choose between two men: a wealthy man (Ray Milland) and a newspaper reporter played by Fred MacMurray.  When she turns down the advances of the wealthy man the reporter publishes a piece on her as the no girl.  She becomes a celebrity and a nightclub singer (although she really can't sing.)  I felt the movie would have been better avoiding the whole celebrity plot.  It was cute but all of these leads have done better movies.  

Don't Change your Husband/The Golden Chance

This double bill of DeMille movies is all right.  Actually, I preferred The Golden Chance to Don't Change your Husband.  In Don't Change your Husband Gloria dumps her husband for her lover only to discover he's also in a relationship with the maid.  The Golden Chance tells about a poor woman who takes up a seamstress job for finances since her husband's a drunk.  Naturally, he finds out about it only a rich man played by Wallace Reid has fallen in love with her.  Then there's a blackmail plot.  I wish there was more of an audience for silent films.  More would be released.

Espionage Agent

I liked Brenda Marshall in "Strange Impersonation."  I was hoping more with this movie but it was dull.  She and her husband try to find out Nazi secrets.  No one believes Brenda is a reliable source believing her to be on the Nazi side.  (McCrea even loses his job halfway through the movie because of that.)  I'm looking forward to finding out more about Brenda Marshall but this movie wasn't worth my time.