Mary Astor Trailers
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Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 - September 25, 1987) was an American actress. Most remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941) with Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. She eventually made a successful transition to talkies, but almost saw her career destroyed due to public scandal in the mid-1930s. She was sued for support by her parents and was later branded an adulterous wife by her ex-husband during a custody fight over her daughter.
Overcoming these stumbling blocks in her private life, Astor went on to even greater success on the screen, eventually winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Sandra Kovak in The Great Lie (1941). She was an MGM contract player through most of the 1940s and continued to act in movies, on television and on stage until her retirement from the screen in 1964.
Astor was the author of five novels. Her autobiography became a bestseller, as did her later book, A Life on Film, which was specifically about her career. Director Lindsay Anderson wrote of her in 1990: "...(W)hen two or three who love the cinema are gathered together, the name of Mary Astor always comes up, and everybody agrees that she was an actress of special attraction, whose qualities of depth and reality always seemed to illuminate the parts she played."
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06 August 1926
If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death.
15 June 1936
An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.
24 June 1938
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
27 February 1927
Julian Ramos is a fisherman in the Canary Islands. As the guardian of his hotheaded younger brother Charles, Julian regards it as his duty to protect the boy from women -- and vice versa.
12 March 1932
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.
14 December 1930
A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.
08 June 1933
This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.
21 October 1938
To stop Pinkie's widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she doesn't love, teenager Pinkie and her best friend Buzz kidnap her in the family travel trailer to live a carefree life on the open road.
05 December 1944
Peter and Delilah are a married couple running a roadside café in Nevada. Their stable partnership turns rocky, though, with the arrival of the sultry Sally, a waitress who catches Peter's wandering eye.
05 February 1938
In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficulties in their competitive pursuit of a "big scoop".
07 September 1946
This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926.
04 November 1964
An unknown Kentucky writer comes to New York and pursues fame and women.
02 February 1935
An escaped convict redeems himself by becoming an auto racing champion.
04 May 1930
Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, and a series of cops, robbers and kidnappers passes through.
24 October 1926
A wounded captain recalls his youth, his time at college, and the woman he fell in love with.
12 September 1931
A society man's loving, devoted wife, upon learning that he has been unfaithful and is planning to leave her for the other woman, strategically pretends to be having an affair of her own.
25 March 1960
A writer reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection after a safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, after Earnest Hemingway's short story.
14 January 1923
Jim Bradley has always played second fiddle in his family -- while his older brother, Herbert, goes off to college, Jim becomes a garage mechanic.
25 September 1921
The painter Burne-Jones and his famed painting "The Beggar Maid" are depicted in this speculative drama about the creation of the painting.
20 May 1933
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.
10 November 1928
When a gangster's speakeasy is raided by the police, one of the people picked up is the gangster's pretty young girlfriend.
05 January 1997
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends and co-workers.
18 April 1931
A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and her "minister" husband are really bank robbers.
30 October 1927
Starry-eyed heiress Mary Astor yearns for a "cave man" who will treat her rough and make her like it.
10 March 1949
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
11 January 1936
A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.
18 October 1941
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
27 September 1940
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City.
22 January 1928
Informed by her doctor that she is going blind, Carol Trent tearfully breaks off her engagement with Don Manning, hoping to spare him the stigma of a sightless bride.
13 January 1934
Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman.
12 June 1947
When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.
28 April 1934
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
30 October 1922
Robert Fisher Clarke is a promoter who comes to a small Canadian town. He harnesses the power of the rapids and builds a pulp mill.
02 December 1953
A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden Year, so proclaimed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as 1953.
14 December 1933
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.
26 September 1956
An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee.
15 March 1931
Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him.
11 September 1932
Director Robert Florey's 1932 melodrama about a woman who suspects her husband of infidelity stars Mary Astor, Kenneth MacKenna, Tommy Conlon, Lilyan Tashman, Hale Hamilton, Cecil Cunningham and Virginia Sale.
28 October 1923
At sight of a woman, he got a ticket for speeding.
17 September 1932
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie.
03 March 1959
An Air Force pilot finds romance with his war buddy's widow.
22 April 1923
Charles Abbott is implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother to the woman he loves.
20 April 1956
A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
26 December 1931
A gambler falls for a fake countess.
21 December 1935
A construction company foreman's life changes--not necessarily for the better--when he is promoted to an executive position.
23 February 1925
Rufus Billings was born premature and after a lifetime of doctors doting on his frail health he is now a hypochondriac of the first order.
24 March 1939
An unemployed American showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian high society.
22 October 1932
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police.
09 September 1923
Goody Rickby has a child out of wedlock, but it dies when the father, Gillead Wingate, refuses to acknowledge the child or help the mother get medical aid.
11 May 1935
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
28 November 1944
A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St.
29 August 1947
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.
04 October 1934
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.
07 July 1934
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
14 December 1924
Inez Laranotta is an actress who is notorious for her vamp roles and for the wild parties she attends.
23 September 1936
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
15 January 1931
The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming general.
25 November 1933
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr.
18 October 1925
Paula, a chorus girl, marries into an aristocratic family. Unfortunately, her husband is a drunk. When he tries to give some liquor to their infant son, she brandishes a pair of scissors at him.
23 May 1926
A carnival huckster who decides to turn pennies into dollars by passing himself off as a hellfire-and-brimstone evangelist.
