The Shamrock and the Rose

This was a cute silent movie that I watched on youtube.  It doesn't star one of the big names of the silent era but it was still good.  It's about a hot dog business and an ice cream one.  They already have trouble with each other but things get pretty rough when the girl and the boy get interested in one another.  It's only around an hour so it's worth a watch.

That Wonderful Urge/Love is News

 

That Wonderful Urge is a remake of Love is News.  I watched them both and I liked Love is News more.  I felt there was more chemistry between Loretta Young and Tyrone Power than Gene Tierney.  Also, it didn't overdo the zaniness.  Both movies concern a paparazzi who gets his just desserts when his subject announces that they're getting married.  It destroys his life completely and he wants revenge.  Tyrone Power proves with these movies that he was a good comic actor as well.  I want to see all the movies in this collection because Tyrone was one handsome talented leading man. 

The Dragon Painter

Seusse Hayawaka plays an artist moaning his lost love.  However, when he meets a woman whom he swears is his long lost love he immediately gets in artist block. This creates some complications in the plot.  This was under an hour so it is a quick worthwhile watch. 

Merrily we Live

When Brian Aherne becomes the butler for Constance Bennett's family everything is changed including Constance.  This is a rip off My Man Godfreybut I do like Bonita Granville in this. 
It seems like the roles didn't come easy for her after the '40s, although she was fun and spunky.  This was all right but it wasn't lifechanging.

Beauty for Sale

This movie has a torn outlook on adultery.  It romanticizes it but tries to lecture about it too.  Still, I liked Madge Evans.  I've never seen a movie of hers before.  She kind of reminds of Jessica Lange but my twin sister said Tara Fitzgerald.  She plays a girl in a beauty salon who falls for an older married man.  I loved Una Merkel as always.  Una was usually just the sassy sidekick but she did the role well.  

Anna Karenina

Leonard Maltin gave this a 4 out of 4.  I didn't think it was a masterpiece though.  I thought it was all right.  I'm reading the book which is why I'm not that thrilled at the adaptation.  There are two romances in the book.  Kitty and Levin's might be more ordinary but I've grown to love those characters.  It's too bad that every movie version of Anna Karenina just tosses them to the side.  The good thing about this movie is that Anna Karenina is well cast with Greta Garbo in the role.  She does a great job as the doomed heroine.  

Love and Learn

This was a really generic songwriter movie.  Unlike the ones like Night and Day this is about an amateur songwriting team.  The music is not as good.  Jack Carson has an all right voice but it isn't impressive.  I wish that they used Janis Paige's voice.  She was underused here.