Cast: Mary Astor

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Mary Astor. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Maltese Falcon

1941 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Mary Astor · Gladys George · Peter Lorre

Plot Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) is a private eye who gets involved in the hunt for a statuette while searching for the murderer of his partner, Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan). His...

8.0

32K votes

8.0

32K votes

Midnight

1939 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Claudette Colbert · Don Ameche · John Barrymore · Mary Astor

Plot Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert) is an American showgirl in Paris who is out of work, money, and luck when a handsome cabbie (Don Ameche) offers to drive her around the...

7.8

2K votes

7.8

2K votes

Dodsworth

1936 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Walter Huston · Ruth Chatterton · Mary Astor · David Niven

Plot Sam Dodsworth (Walter Huston) sells his automobile company at great profit. But his success has come at the expense his dutiful wife, Fran (Ruth Chatterton). She persuades him to take...

7.4

1K votes

7.4

1K votes

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

1964 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Bette Davis · Olivia de Havilland · Joseph Cotten · Agnes Moorehead

Plot Charlotte Hollis, wealthy southern spinster, is shunned by her community for the grisly murder some 40 years prior of her intended, John Mayhew. Even though her guilt in the matter...

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

Act of Violence

1949 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Van Heflin · Robert Ryan · Janet Leigh · Mary Astor

Plot War veteran Frank Enley seems to be a happily married small-town citizen until he realises Joe Parkson is in town. It seems Parkson is out for revenge because of something...

7.2

450 votes

7.2

450 votes

The Prisoner of Zenda

1937 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Ronald Colman · Madeleine Carroll · C. Aubrey Smith · Raymond Massey

Plot An excellent cast and splendid photography make this the definitive film adaptation of Anthony Hope's swashbuckling novel. A British commoner is forced to pose as his cousin, the kidnapped king...

7.2

930 votes

7.2

930 votes

Other Men's Women

1931 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Grant Withers · Mary Astor · Regis Toomey · James Cagney

Plot Events take an unhappy turn for two Bill and Jack, two locomotive engineers, after Bill is attracted to his best friend's wife.

7.2

131 votes

7.2

131 votes

The Palm Beach Story

1942 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Claudette Colbert · Joel McCrea · Mary Astor · Rudy Vallee

Plot Penniless Geraldine "Gerry" Jeffers (Claudette Colbert), knows how far her good looks can take her in the world. She loves her husband, Tom Jeffers (Joel McCrea) but doesn't like being...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

Meet Me in St. Louis

1944 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Judy Garland · Margaret O'Brien · Mary Astor · Lucille Bremer

Plot St. Louis 1903. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. 17-year old Esther has fallen in love with the boy next door who has...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Red Dust

1932 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Clark Gable · Jean Harlow · Gene Raymond · Mary Astor

Plot Conditions are spartan on Dennis Carson's Indo-china rubber plantation during a dusty dry monsoon. The latest boat upriver brings Carson an unwelcome guest: Vantine, a floozy from Saigon, hoping to...

6.9

328 votes

6.9

328 votes

Little Women

1949 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast June Allyson · Elizabeth Taylor · Peter Lawford · Janet Leigh

Plot 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,...

6.9

5K votes

6.9

5K votes

The Hurricane

1937 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction John Ford · Stuart Heisler

Cast Dorothy Lamour · Jon Hall · Mary Astor · C. Aubrey Smith

Plot In the days of the tall ships and colonial rule of the South Pacific, a naive native sailor working as first mate on an island hopping windjammer is unjustly jailed...

6.8

747 votes

6.8

747 votes

The Little Giant

1933 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Mary Astor · Helen Vinson · Russell Hopton

Plot Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from...

6.6

32 votes

6.6

32 votes

Smart Woman

1931 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast Mary Astor · Robert Ames · John Halliday · Edward Everett Horton

Plot Sexist tale in which Mrs. Nancy Gibson is blamed for husband Donald's philandering because she takes a trip without him. To make him jealous, she turns her attentions to another...

6.4

93 votes

6.4

93 votes

The Great Lie

1941 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Bette Davis · George Brent · Mary Astor · Lucile Watson

Plot Sandra and Pete elope but their marriage is invalid since she's not yet divorced. Sandra is, however, pregnant by Pete. Pete marries his former fiancée Maggie, then flies to South...

6.4

330 votes

6.4

330 votes

Holiday

1930 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Edward H. Griffith

Cast Ann Harding · Mary Astor · Edward Everett Horton · Robert Ames

Plot The story of a playboy who is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.

6.3

21 votes

6.3

21 votes

Across the Pacific

1942 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Mary Astor · Sydney Greenstreet · Charles Halton

Plot Bogart plays a U.S. officer of artillery who is court martialled in disgrace (in 1941) and who leaves the country. He gets a job offer in central America with a...

6.3

680 votes

6.3

680 votes

A Kiss Before Dying

1956 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Gerd Oswald

Cast Robert Wagner · Jeffrey Hunter · Virginia Leith · Joanne Woodward

Plot Bud Corliss is an ambitious college student with big plans for himself and an heiress, Dorothy Kingship. But then Dorothy goes and gets herself pregnant. It's his child, too, of...

6.2

459 votes

6.2

459 votes

The Man with Two Faces

1934 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Mary Astor · Ricardo Cortez · Mae Clarke

Plot A talented young actress seems to be under the spell of her unscrupulous, avaricious, and totally unprincipled husband.

6.2

24 votes

6.2

24 votes

Any Number Can Play

1949 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Clark Gable · Alexis Smith · Wendell Corey · Audrey Totter

Plot Charlie King (Gable) runs a casino, but, in a business that thrives among the unscrupulous, Charlie takes pride in running an honest game and treating his customers with fairness and...

6.1

30 votes

6.1

30 votes