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