Recommends: Old movies on youtube

On Sunday I was "lying in bed just like Brian Wilson did" (Barenaked Ladies.) That is to say, pretty much spent the whole day in bed being depressed. So I watched some old movies that people have snuck onto the youtube. (For the record I felt better by Monday.) I've provided the links, but they might be dead soon.

This movie doesn't really have a plot... just a string of comedic set pieces. Mostly of Grant and Sheridan fighting, and then him having to sleep somewhere uncomfortable. The war bride bit doesn't come til the last 1/4 of the film. It was watchable cause it was witty, but... weird movie. Sheridan's pretty mean to Grant throughout. (Watch here.)

Another weird one. Dietrich is a performer, who one day comes across an abandoned baby and decides to keep it. She needs a husband in order to legally adopt the baby, and so takes on MacMurray. Then there's the Misunderstanding--the kind that could be solved by conversation--and then the bebby brings them back together. Weird. Not much chemistry, but Dietrich was quite adorable. No idea what the title means. (Watch here.)

This was much more standard screwball stuff--a semi Cinderella story. Colbert and Ameche are both poor and fall in love at first meet. But she wants to marry rich, and gets whisked away by a rich dude who wants her to seduce his wife's lover away from the wife. Meanwhile Ameche is trying to find her everywhere, and when he shows up -- silliness ensues. I would recommend this one of the three. And John Barrymore was really funny in it. (Watch here.)