The Ghost of Rosy Taylor

 This was an all right Mary Miles Minter silent. It's pretty short too. Minter takes on the identity of a cleaning woman Rosy Taylor to get some income without knowing that she is dead. It all starts to unravel when someone recommends Mary Miles Minter for work. Only this is met with shock when the other woman says isn't Rosy Taylor dead. This isn't Minter's best work but it's all right.

A Girl's Folly

 This was a pretty generic movie. There is nothing incredibly unique about it. It's a silent movie about a girl who realizes that getting into movies isn't as easy as she thought it was going to be. She has a crush on Robert Warwick but it turns out he's not all that great. Soon she is heading back home. I saw this on youtube. 

The Pirate

 

I just wasn't impressed by this movie. In this, she falls for an actor pretending to be a pirate. Little does she know the man she is betrothed to marry is an actual pirate. The song "Be a Clown" is easily the best thing in the movie. I've seen better Gene Kelly and Judy Garland movies.

Street of Shame

 

Machiko Kyo was one of my favorite actresses in my early 20's. She was a fabulous Japanese actress who worked with the best directors like Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, and here with Kenji Mizoguchi. This movie is about the prostitutes of a brothel.  In this, she plays a cynical prostitute. For some reason, she isn't the most popular prostitute in the place even though she's the most lively. The scene where her father confronts Machiko about the shame she is bringing to the family is easily the best scene of the movie. This was the director's last film. 

Where east is east

 

This was a pretty bad silent movie but it's worth it for the unintentional funny ending. Estelle Taylor is really the star of this one. She's quite exotic looking. She plays Lon Chaney's ex. He knows she's up to no good and soon she is seducing her estranged daughter Lupe Velez's boyfriend. SPOILER: Lon Chaney opens up a gorilla cage and tells the animal to get at it (the ex-wife.) It ended the movie on a cheesy point. The talent of this movie like Lon Chaney and Todd Browning outweighs the movie itself.

This is the Night

 

This was an ok pre-code movie. This was Cary Grant's first movie and you can already tell that he has a charming persona here. However, the movie really belongs to Lily Damita. Damita is supposed to play the wife of Roland Young. Young is currently having an affair with Cary Grant's wife Thelma Todd. But Young finds himself jealous of the affections that Cary Grant has been showing towards Damita. This was all right. 

Girls' Dormitory

 

Tyrone Power only has a small role in the movie Girls' Dormitory. It was pretty short but I liked it. It deals with a very young cute Simone Simon before her breakthrough role in Cat People. She plays a nineteen-year-old school girl that has a crush on Herbert Marshall. People are shocked by a love letter that the student has written. When Herbert finds out that she wrote the letter to him he is taken back. Who could love him a boring headmaster. He discovers he has feelings for Simone as well.  SPOILER: I loved the ending although it was rushed. The movie would have been better if it added twenty minutes. It turned out that Ruth Chatterton had feelings for him.  I expected the movie to change because of this information after she's closer to him in age.  But that didn't happen thankfully.