The best Mary Astor’s movies

Mary Astor

Mary Astor

03/05/1906- 25/09/1987
Today we present the best Mary Astor’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Mary Astor’s movies.
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The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon
8/10
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
7.5/10
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.

Red Dust

Red Dust
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/10/1932
  • Character: Barbara Willis
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police; but when his new surveyor, Gary, arrives along with his refined but sensual wife, Barbara, Dennis gets infatuated by her.

Little Women

Little Women
7.2/10
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother - a very outspoken women for her time. The story is of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.

Midnight

Midnight
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 24/03/1939
  • Character: Helene Flammarion
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.

Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St. Louis
7.5/10
In the year before the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York.

Dodsworth

Dodsworth
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 23/09/1936
  • Character: Edith Cortright
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

Thousands Cheer

Thousands Cheer
6.2/10
Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her father. Eddie's also plagued by fear of having an accident during his family's trapeze act in the army variety show, which also features a gallery of MGM stars.

The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda
7.6/10
An Englishman on a Ruritarian holiday must impersonate the king when the rightful monarch, a distant cousin, is drugged and kidnapped.

A Kiss Before Dying

A Kiss Before Dying
6.7/10
A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.

The Hurricane

The Hurricane
7.1/10
In the colonial era, island native Terangi (Jon Hall) spends a blissful honeymoon with his bride, Marama (Dorothy Lamour). Soon after, however, their relationship is torn asunder when Terangi is sent to prison for punching a prejudiced white man. Prominent members of the community -- including the governor's wife, Mme. De Laage (Mary Astor), petition the governor for clemency, but he refuses to budge. However, all pretense of law and order are soon shattered by an incoming tropical storm.

Act of Violence

Act of Violence
7.5/10
A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.

Across the Pacific

Across the Pacific
6.8/10
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-marshaled out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveller Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.

The Palm Beach Story

The Palm Beach Story
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 28/08/1942
  • Character: The Princess Centimillia
Gerry and Tom Jeffers are finding married life hard. Tom is an inventor/ architect and there is little money for them to live on. They are about to be thrown out of their apartment when Gerry meets rich businessman being shown around as a prospective tenant. He gives Gerry $700 to start life afresh but Tom refuses to believe her story and they quarrel. Gerry decides the marriage is over and heads to Palm Beach for a quick divorce but Tom has plans to stop her.

The Scarecrow

The Scarecrow
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 07/11/1920
  • Character: Bit Part (uncredited)
Buster competes with another farmhand for the love of the farmer's daughter.

The Kennel Murder Case

The Kennel Murder Case
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 28/10/1933
  • Character: Hilda Lake
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.

The Great Lie

The Great Lie
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/04/1941
  • Character: Sandra Kovak
Days after Sandra and Pete elope, they discover their consummated union isn't valid since, unbeknownst to them, Sandra's divorce isn't yet final. They decide to not stay together, but, by then, Sandra is pregnant. She doesn't learn that fact until after Pete marries his former fiancee Maggie. Pete, unaware of the baby, flies to South America on business. While there, a flight he is on goes missing and all onboard are presumed dead. Maggie persuades Sandra to let her adopt the baby, so she can raise it as Pete's legitimate child. Months later Pete - alive after all - returns. Sandra and Maggie contend for him and the baby.

The Man with Two Faces

The Man with Two Faces
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/08/1934
  • Character: Jessica Wells
Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a theatrical producer she comes home incoherent and Vance is found dead in the vanished producer's hotel suite

The Lost Squadron

The Lost Squadron
6.4/10
When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadistic director.

The World Changes

The World Changes
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/11/1933
  • Character: Virginia Claffin Nordholm
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.

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