Mary Astor

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A Kiss Before Dying review by from Caerphilly,Wales

A kiss before dying 1 September 2005
...and noir combinations make it enjoyable and interesting. Fine performances from Mary Astor as the mother and Joanne Woodward as the girlfriend complete an enjoyable viewi... Read customer review

Meet Me in St. Louis review by A customer from Doncaster

Velvet & Tinsel 10 November 2008
...nte Minelli with a family group of intelligent, competent actors. Leon Ames and Mary Astor as the parents Margaret O'Brien, one of the best juvenile actors ever, as siste... Read customer review

Hollywood - My Home Town (1965)
Starring: Ken Murray, Armin Hoffman, Ben Alexander
Director: Ken Murray, William Martin
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Ken Murray narrates and films this documentary about the Hollywood stars of the Golden Age.

16% from 3 members
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Return to Payton Place (1961)
Starring: Carol Lynley, Eleanor Parker, Mary Astor
Director: Jose Ferrer
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This sequel to the 1957 film "Peyton Place" once again focuses on the residents of the small New England town. Although everything seems picture-perfect, there are actually still many troubles brewing within the village -- some of them exacerbated by Allison MacKenzie's new novel, which reveals ..read more »

47% from 4 members
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This Happy Feeling (1958)
Starring: Debbie Reynolds, Curd Jürgens, John Saxon
Director: Blake Edwards
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On a stormy night, young woman asks another guest at party to rescue her from her lecherous boss and take her to the train station. When her rescuer suggests that she stop at his place to get out of her wet clothes, she dashes from his car. The door she knocks on for help is the home of a retired ..read more »

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A Kiss Before Dying on DVD (1956)
Starring: Robert Quarry, Virginia Leith, Mollie McCart
Director: Gerd Oswald
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Bud Corliss (Robert Wagner) is having trouble being accepted by the family of his comparatively-rich girlfriend, Dorothy Kingship (Joanne Woodward). Dorothy's pregnancy is only going to make matters worse. Instead of working their problems out, however, Bud coldly murders Dorothy and leaves false ..read more »

55% from 158 members

Meet Me in St. Louis on DVD (1944)
Starring: Judy Garland, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer
Director: Vincente Minnelli
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Vincente Minnelli's classic romantic musical about a well-off family, the Smiths, in 1903 St. Louis. As the two oldest girls fret about boys and love, a darker, more serious cloud appears on the horizon: their father is being transferred to a job in far-off New York City just as the World's Fair is ..read more »

70% from 2,560 members

Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - Wat... on DVD (1943)
Starring: Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, George Brent
Director: Edmund Goulding, Herman Shumlin, Anatole Litvak
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An adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play, Bette Davis and Paul Lukas are German anti-Nazi underground leaders who flee the country, only to be pursued to the U.S. by Nazi agents.

71% from 137 members

Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set (6 discs) on DVD (1943)
Starring: Olivia De Havilland, George Brent, Dennis Morgan
Director: Edmund Goulding, Anatole Litvak, Herman Shumlin
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To commemorate Bette Davis' 100th birthday, Warner Brothers are releasing six films from her heyday on DVD for the first time. The box set features some of her best films, including: - In This Our Life: The tale of two sisters, Stanley (Bette Davis) and Roy (Olivia de Havilland) Timberlake. When ..read more »

75% from 154 members

Across the Pacific (1942)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet
Director: John Huston
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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 stop off in Panama. While there he discovers Japanese plot to attack the Panama Canal along with the Pearl Harbor attack.

67% from 7 members
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The Maltese Falcon on DVD (1941)
Starring: Peter Lorre, Gladys George, Barton MacLane
Director: John Huston
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Hard-drinking private eye Sam Spade sleuths the backyard of San Francisco in search of an elusive black bird statuette while evading the setups of three disparate miscreants: the duplicitous Brigid, the perfumed Mr. Cairo, and the scheming Fat Man. Huston's brilliant directorial debut is aided by ..read more »

73% from 11,982 members

Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - The... on DVD (1941)
Starring: Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor
Director: Edmund Goulding
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Tempestuous, ambitious concert pianist Sandra Kovac (Mary Astor) shares a bond with down-to-earth Maggie Van Allen (Bette Davis) and her little boy Pete. Sandra’s chic New York friends can’t imagine what the two women have in common. What they don’t know is that Pete is actually Sandra’s son – and ..read more »

73% from 154 members

Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - The... on DVD (1939)
Starring: Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, George Brent
Director: Edmund Goulding, Anatole Litvak, Herman Shumlin
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Delia breaks her engagement to Clem, in favor of wealthy Jim. Cousin Charlotte comforts Clem, and becomes pregnant. But Clem dies in the war before he can marry her, and Charlotte intends to raise her daughter alone. But in spiteful jealousy, Delia takes Charlotte's child from her, and raises her ..read more »

79% from 281 members

The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
Starring: William Powell, Mary Astor
Director: Michael Curtiz
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Archer Coe has been found dead in his locked bedroom. The cops consider it suicide, but Philo believes otherwise and must prove how a man could have been murdered in a locked room.

54% from 15 members
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Two Arabian Knights (1927)
Starring: William Boyd, Mary Astor, Louis Wolheim
Director: Lewis Milestone
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In WWI, two US soldiers - a Private and a Sergeant - are captured on the Western Front and, in the process of escaping the POW camp, leave their previous animosity behind. Escape is the only the beginning of the pair's breakneck adventures, however, which will involve near constant peril and a ..read more »

24% from 5 members
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Hollywood - My Home Town - 1.0 stars
Return to Payton Place - 2.5 stars
This Happy Feeling - 3 stars
A Kiss Before Dying - 3.0 stars
Meet Me in St. Louis - 3.5 stars

This Happy Feeling - 3 stars
Hollywood - My Home Town - 1.0 stars
Two Arabian Knights - 1.5 stars
Return to Payton Place - 2.5 stars
The Kennel Murder Case - 2.5 stars

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