MARY ASTOR - RELUCTANT LEGEND
by barrie roberts classicimages.com edited by chris wing
Mary Astor - The Great "B" Movie Actress
In the great "B" Movie Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Her Final Role - as Jewell Mayhew - 1964
in the ground.
Among the legendary names of Hollywood's Golden Age, Mary Astor's star shines brightly. Strictly speaking, however, Mary was never a star in the accepted sense of her time, but a featured player. This was of her own choosing. Offered starring contracts at various times, she preferred not to shoulder the responsibility of having her name appear above the title of a film. This decision was due largely to a lack of confidence generated by a childhood dominated by demanding parents who looked upon her as a meal ticket. The public with whom she was very popular nevertheless regarded her as a star. Her career lasted an incredible 44 years, during which time she ran the gamut from limpid ingénue to forceful character player.
She was born Lucile Vasconcells Langhanke in Quincy, Illinois, on May 3, 1906, though sources in Quincy have given the birth year as 1903. Lucile was the only child of Otto Ludwig Wilhelm Langhanke and his wife, Helen Vasconcells. Lucile's father had emigrated from Germany while her mother was the daughter of Portuguese-Irish farmers, who had been in Illinois for a generation. Mr. Langhanke made his living teaching German in public high school in Quincy, until the United States entered the First World War in 1917 and an anti-German backlash led to the elimination of most German language studies from American schools. Langhanke found work only sporadically afterwards, forcing his wife to seek employment. Helen, a frustrated actress found a position teaching drama and elocution. She then encouraged her daughter's interest in motion pictures and in music. Lucile's formal education was rudimentary, but her parents insisted she study academics at home. She also took piano lessons. It was a lonely childhood, but the girl with deep brown eyes, long auburn hair and a maturity and intelligence beyond her years, was blossoming into a real beauty. Ironically, her nickname was the tomboyish, Rusty.
In 1919 Lucile submitted her photograph to a Fame and Fortune contest sponsored by Motion Picture magazine. She placed among the finalists. This was enough to convince her father to move his family to Chicago, where the magazine had offices. Deemed far too young, when seen in person, she was advised to try again when she was older. She did, and was again placed among the finalists. This time the judges named her runner up in the national contest.
It was 1920, and Langhanke felt encouraged to move his family once again, this time to New York to launch his daughter's career. Once in Manhattan Lucile's picture caught the eye of photographer Charles Albin, who shot a series of camera studies of the girl titled "The Madonna Child." These photographs were seen in turn by Harry Durant of Jesse Lasky's Famous Players company, and this led to a six-month contract for Lucile with Paramount in New York. During a conference with writer Louella Parsons and producer Walter Wanger, Jesse Lasky promptly renamed the girl Mary Astor.
Her first appearance on screen was in a dream sequence in Sentimental Tommy which starred Gareth Hughes. Hers was a small part, which was unfortunately cut prior to the film's release. Her Paramount contract expired without further screen exposure. Charles Albin, however, got her parts in three short films, The Beggar Maid, The Young Painter, and Hope which were directed by another photographer, Lejaren Agiler. These short films, with stories based on famous paintings, showed off Mary's beauty. She then secured small parts in the features John Smith and The Man Who Played God. The year was 1922. Several other larger parts followed in films for various companies.
Paramount again became interested in Mary, and she won a one-year contract at $500 a week. She and her parents left for Hollywood in April of 1923. She played in four films in fast succession before Warner Brothers borrowed her to play the female lead opposite John Barrymore in Beau Brummell. Filming commenced in September 1923, by which time, despite the scrutiny of her parents, Mary had fallen in love with the older and more experienced Barrymore. "The Great Profile" not only became Mary's lover, but her mentor. He taught her acting techniques and voice projection, believing she could become a great star. Perhaps due to the Barrymore name, her parents turned a blind eye to the affair in the hope that their daughter's career would benefit. Mary, however, was content to go on accepting any film role her studio offered and accept direction without question. She later said she never went to the front office to ask for any particular part, never fought for decent stories, and avoided suspension at all costs.
Soon however, Barrymore had second thoughts about her acting potential and abandoned his plan to appear on stage with her in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Barrymore not only took the Ophelia role from Mary, he also replaced her as his lover with Dolores Costello, whom he later married.
The Langhankes meanwhile bought a large home on Temple Hill Drive in Los Angeles, which Otto proceeded to improve. They had servants, a car, and a chauffeur. Mary, earning over $1000 a week, provided sole income for the trio. In fact, Mary's paychecks went directly to her father, who acted as business manager. She received in turn a small allowance.Her Paramount contract over, she signed with Warner Brothers in 1925. In 1926 she was named a Wampas Baby Star, along with Joan Crawford, Dolores Del Rio, Fay Wray, Janet Gaynor, Dolores Costello, and Mary Brian. At this time, a great mountain of publicity was generated each year for the Wampas Baby Stars, starlets deemed to be stars of the future. Mary's selection was a real honor and boded well for her career. Warners meanwhile was content to use her in decorative roles in such films as Don Juan, again with Barrymore; the lovely Rose of the Golden West; and The Sea Tiger with Milton Sills.
In 1928 Warners loaned Mary to Fox to appear in Dressed To Kill, in which she had a more substantive part than usual. The story involved a girl who poses as a gun moll in order to join a gang of thieves. Her motive was to prove the innocence of her boy friend, accused of their crime. Reviews were excellent, and when her contract with Warners expired, Fox signed Mary to a pact at $3,750 a week. She had met director Kenneth Hawks in 1927 and on February 26, 1928, the couple married. She continued her acting career. Despite Mary now being a married woman, salary checks still went directly to her father.
Inevitably, with the advent of talkies, Fox gave Mary a sound test. The test failed miserably when it was found that the ethereal madonna-like beauty had a deep voice. This vocal "defect" was mainly due to the primitive sound equipment, and to sound technicians who were still learning their trade. Nevertheless, Fox released her from her contract.
At liberty, she enjoyed her husband's company, perfected her golf handicap, swam, and rode horseback for exercise. It was friend Florence Eldridge, wife of Fredric March who came to Mary's rescue professionally. Florence was to star with Edward Everett Horton in a stage play Among the Married at the Majestic Theater in Los Angeles. She secured Mary the second lead. The play was a success, and Mary's voice, undistorted by primitive sound equipment, was described by critics as low and vibrant, instead of low and masculine. Within a week she had five offers to make sound films after the close of the play. She signed a contract with RKO-Pathe.
However, tragedy struck on January 2, 1930. Her husband Kenneth was killed in a plane crash when his plane collided with another during the making of a film over the Pacific Ocean. Three weeks after her husband's death, Mary started work on her first talking picture, Ladies Love Brutes, co-starring her friend Fredric March and George Bancroft. From that she immediately went into The Runaway Bride followed by Holiday which starred Ann Harding as Mary's sister. She and Ann later became good friends and neighbors. However, delayed shock over the death of Kenneth Hawks caught up with Mary. She suffered a nervous collapse. She was attended during the months of her illness by Dr. Franklyn Thorpe.
Mary married Franklyn Thorpe in June 1931. Struggling to establish a medical practice, Thorpe urged Mary to take control of her finances. The inevitable confrontation caused a rift between her and her parents.
The couple purchased a yacht and sailed for Hawaii. Mary was pregnant; and on June 16, 1932, she gave birth to a daughter, Marylyn Hauoli Thorpe in Honolulu. The first name was a combination of Mary and Franklyn, while Hauoli in Hawaiian meant to sing with joy. Returning to Hollywood, her RKO contract concluded, she freelanced, drawing an excellent part with Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in Red Dust. The story was set on a rubber plantation in Indo-China. Mary played the frustrated young wife of Gene Raymond, who during her husband's absence has a torrid affair with Gable. The part once again opened doors for Mary, but she still refused the responsibility of starring in her own right. She dreaded interviews, photographic sessions, and most publicity. She accepted a featured player contract with Warner Brothers in late 1932, largely due to depleted finances. Her parents had spent lavishly and invested in the stock market with poor results. The Depression was then gripping the United States, and Mary had a need for security.
After appearing in a number of films including The Little Giant with Edward G. Robinson, The World Changes with Paul Muni, and The Kennel Murder Case with William Powell, Mary, exhausted, took a vacation in New York - alone. Arriving in Manhattan in the fall of 1933, she immediately felt rejuvenated. She met exciting, intelligent people; conversation was stimulating; there was the theater, parties, and nightclubs to visit. This all led to her meeting George Kaufmann, the playwright. They had a brief affair.
In 1934 Mary was sued by her father for non support. Despite the enormous financial aid she had given her parents over the years, the court ordered her to pay them a weekly allowance. Then, in 1935, Franklyn Thorpe filed for divorce from Mary, citing adultery with George Kaufmann and others. Mary had kept a diary from 1929 through 1934, and this was introduced by her husband as evidence in the fight for custody of daughter Marylyn. The diary was reputed to contain passages explicitly rating the sexual prowess of Mary's many lovers. The press immediately labeled it the "Purple Diary" - and it became headline news during the summer of 1936.
Mary was filming Dodsworth for Samuel Goldwyn. The film was too far along for her to be replaced on a morals clause; consequently, Goldwyn and other studio chiefs such as Louis B. Mayer and Harry Cohn of Columbia, to whom Mary was then under contract, lent support. The diary was never actually seen by the public, and reports of the contents were purely speculative. Mary won custody of Marylyn for six months of each year. She had asserted most of the pages of the diary submitted in court were forgeries. When Dodsworth was released, notices were excellent, and the film itself became a classic. Luckily, Mary's career had not been damaged by the scandal.
Apart from And Then They Were Married, a diverting romantic comedy with Melvyn Douglas, her Columbia films were inconsequential. Her loan outs were much better. Samuel Goldwyn once again borrowed her, this time for The Hurricane. In the film she had an extremely strenuous role. She played the wife of the French governor of a small Pacific Island, which is destroyed in the hurricane. She is rescued from certain death by islander Jon Hall, in a spectacular water soaked climax. She also had a part as Antoinette in David Selznick's The Prisoner of Zenda which co-starred Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
1937 was another eventful year for Mary. In February she married for a third time, to Manuel Del Campo. She also returned to the stage. She appeared in a series of Noel Coward plays at the Biltmore Theater in Los Angeles. They were: Tonight at 8:30, The Astonished Heart, and Still Life. The latter was produced on film as Brief Encounter in 1945, with Celia Johnson in Mary's role of the suburban wife who falls in love with a married doctor. Her co-stars in the plays were Bramwell Fletcher, Helen Chandler, and Estelle Winwood. Notices were excellent for plays and players.
In 1938 freelancing again she was at MGM to play Judy Garland's widowed mother who is romantically paired with Walter Pidgeon in Listen Darling. It was a light hearted diversion. It was also proposed at the time that MGM would send Mary to England to replace Elizabeth Allan in the lead opposite Robert Donat in their British production The Citadel. The studio ultimately decided on the less expensive contractee Rosalind Russell to play the part of Doctor Donat's wife.
Mary became a regular performer on radio. She was heard on Lux Theater in such as These Three with Barbara Stanwyck and Errol Flynn, Bullets and Ballots with Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart, Interference with Leslie Howard and Herbert Marshall, and Trade Winds with Errol Flynn and Joan Bennett. She also played in Screen Actors Guild, Suspense, and Mercury theater radio programs.
Mary was pregnant during the filming of Midnight which starred Claudette Colbert and was released in 1939. The film had a longer schedule than anticipated, and many tricks had to be used to conceal Mary's condition from the camera. Mary played John Barrymore's wife. She was reportedly shocked and saddened at his physical condition and appearance at the time. He would die in 1942.
In the spring of 1939 she gave birth to a son, Anthony, known as Tono. Back at work, she appeared with Elliott Nugent in The Male Animal on stage in Los Angeles. She had to refuse to go on to Broadway with the play on account of her family. The play turned out to be a major New York hit in 1940.
In Hollywood she drew a good part in Brigham Young at Fox. She was the principal wife of the title character, played by Dean Jagger. The romantic leads were Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell, but the acting honors went to Mary and Dean.
Over at Warner Brothers, Bette Davis was to star in The Great Lie, the story of the rivalry of two women for the love of aviator George Brent. Mary, along with Muriel Angelus, Anna Sten, and Sigrid Gurie tested for the part of Sandra, a self-centered concert pianist. Davis liked Mary's test and demanded she be signed for the part. Mary's adept handling of the piano keys in the test, in which she played Tschaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, convinced the studio that Davis was right. In the released film it is actually Max Rabinovitch who is heard playing the concerto on the soundtrack. Mary, always pliable and willing to take orders, was one of the few major players who got along with and became a friend of the volatile Bette. In fact, Davis, in order to strengthen the story, threw the film in Mary's direction. So much so, that Mary won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for her part in the film in 1941.
This led to the best role of her career, that of the duplicitous Brigid O'Shaughnessy in the classic The Maltese Falcon opposite Humphrey Bogart. In fast company with supporting players such as Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Lee Patrick, Mary got superb notices. She was cast again with Bogart in the exciting spy melodrama Across the Pacific. For a change of pace she journeyed over to Paramount to appear in The Palm Beach Story with Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea. In this she wore an unbecoming blonde wig, as the much married socialite, but her deft comedy playing was much applauded by the critics. At this time she had a successful weekly radio show, Hollywood Showcase, in which she introduced new talent. In 1942 she also found time to reprise her role in The Great Lie for Lux Radio Theater. She was heard with George Brent and Loretta Young, playing the Bette Davis role.
Otto Langhanke died in 1943; her mother shortly after. World War II was well underway, her husband Manuel was away in the air force, and she had two children to bring up. MGM offered her a lucrative seven-year contract. She signed with them in 1943. Professionally, it was a major mistake.
MGM could only see Mary as a sophisticated mother figure, showing concerned sympathy during the romantic shenanigans of such as Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson, and Elizabeth Taylor, among others. She played in Young Ideas and Thousands Cheer. After having completed Meet Me In St. Louis, Mary persuaded MGM to allow her to make her Broadway debut. The play Many Happy Returns co-starred Henry Hull who was later replaced by Neil Hamilton. It opened in Boston on December 25, 1944 to disastrous notices. It limped to Broadway where it played only six performances before closing. The play was panned by all, however, it garnered approval for Mary's looks and ability, and an invitation was issued to return in something good. Back in Hollywood MGM kept her idle for a year although she continued to draw her salary. There was an offer from Noel Coward in London to star with Rex Harrison in the film version of his Blithe Spirit, but MGM refused to permit it, arguing they may need her for something. The part eventually played by Constance Cummings could have rescued Mary from MGM mediocrity. In May of 1945, Mary penned an article for Photoplay magazine titled will "He Wants To Come Home," in which she expressed the fears of wartime wives that their husbands would not want to return to domestic life after their wartime experiences. Ironically, this is exactly what happened to Mary's own marriage to Manuel Del Campo. He had joined the Army Air Force as a pilot and had been stationed in England. Mary later said she was "Dear Janed" - by air mail.
Not long single, she married again on Christmas Day 1945. Her fourth husband was Thomas Wheelock, a former sergeant in the United States Army.
Eventually, in 1946, she was loaned to Fox to play a wealthy widow who nearly separates Robert Young from his wife, Dorothy McGuire in Claudia and David. She was also loaned to Paramount for Desert Fury. It was another mother role, but this time a substantive part, that of a tough as nails casino owner who vies with her daughter, played by Lizabeth Scott, for the attention of John Hodiak. Burt Lancaster also starred.
Back at MGM, however, she had more nondescript mother parts in such as Cynthia and Fiesta. The last straw as she later stated was her appearance as Marmee in the 1949 version of Little Women. During the long filming she became despondent and was unable to appreciate the high spirits of the younger members of the cast. Despite being offered a renewed contract and a promise of better roles, she asked for and gained her release from the studio. Totally demoralized and at liberty, she started to drink heavily. As early as the late 1930s she had admitted to an alcohol problem. Apparently this did not interfere with her work performance at first, but it led to a suicide attempt in 1951. She was hospitalized after a frantic call to her doctor, informing him she had taken pills. The tragedy made newspaper headlines. Her recovery began with her joining Alcoholics Anonymous, and with her conversion to the Roman Catholic faith. She also separated from her husband Thomas Wheelock, although they did not officially divorce until 1955.
In 1952, ready to work again, she accepted the leading role in a touring company production of Time of the Cuckoo. This play was filmed in 1955 as Summertime, a vehicle for Katharine Hepburn.
Arriving back in New York from her tour, she stayed there for four years working constantly in the theater and on television. She made her television debut on February 3, 1954, in The Missing Years for Kraft Theater. Thereafter, she was a frequent performer in the medium. She played most of the major shows of the time, including Playhouse 90, Alfred Hitchcock, U.S. Steel Hour, Climax, and Studio One. She was also on Broadway in a play The Starcross Story with Eva Le Gallienne, but it was not a success.
Mary returned to California in 1956. She immediately signed to go out on another tour, this time under the direction of Agnes Moorehead in Don Juan in Hell, co-starring Ricardo Montalban, Kurt Kaszner, and Reginald Denny. The tour was successful. She also played parts in several films, the best of which were Stranger in My Arms in 1959 and Return to Peyton Place in 1961. In both she played domineering mothers. Better roles came via television. There was much praise for her performance as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, the part Gloria Swanson played in the 1950 film. She also had good parts in Dinner at Eight, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Women, The Star, and The Philadelphia Story, among others.
In 1959, always fond of writing, she penned her autobiography, My Story, which proved to be a best seller and a sensation for its time. She discussed her battle with alcohol, her failed marriages, and life in general, but steadfastly refused to discuss her film career. She then tried fiction, eventually writing five novels. Titles included The Incredible Charley Carewe, A Place Called Saturday, and Image of Kate. The books enjoyed moderate success.
In 1964 she was offered a cameo role with Bette Davis in the gothic thriller Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte, in which she would play an old lady, who when young had committed murder. She had paid blackmail ever since. Mary decided this role would serve as a fitting finale to her acting career, especially since it would be in a film with Bette Davis. She retired from acting but continued her writing. In 1971 she penned A Life on Film, in which she discussed her film career, which she had resolutely refused to do in My Story - twelve years before. This also became a best seller.
In 1976 she left her home in Fountain Valley, California, where she had lived close to her son and his family, to enter the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills. She was suffering from a chronic heart condition. Always reluctant to meet fans, she refused to accept visitors other than family and personal friends while a resident at the Country Home. She also refused fan mail. All letters received, an enormous amount, were returned unopened.
By 1987 Mary's health had deteriorated considerably. Her heart problems had worsened. She had suffered a heart attack and two strokes and developed emphysema. She died at 1:30 PM on September 25, 1987, at the hospital which was a part of the Motion Picture Home. After a Roman Catholic service her body was interred at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Los Angeles on September 28, 1987. Surviving were her daughter, Marylyn, son Anthony, and several grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Something I have in common with Mary Astor is this: My critics
never seem to "get it" who I really am, but only because I give them
so much slack. I'm too nice a person to turn it back on them.
She never quite understood how people found so much time to wonder why she was
the way she was. She could never be anything but herslef, and her critics never "got it"
because
she was too unconcerned - and much too nice to let them "have it"
that's john houston at left - maltese falcon - his directorial debut
with lizabeth scott
desert fury
1946/47
with van johnson
act of violence
1948
Three with James Dean
"They co-starred as mother and son
in a made for TV movie in 1955 for
"The U. S.Steel Hour" an hour long live television drama.
The teleplay was called "The Thief."
I wish television was still live
and I mean dramatic television
not the bloody Miss Universe Pageant.
It's like free theater from your living room."
I found these pictures while looking for James Dean images
on Google. They appear on this page of a blog called Yangabang
which turns out to be the blog of Andrew Yang, whose great
grandmother was Mary Astor.
Sweet to read Andrew's entry.
Find it by clicking on this photo of from Andrew's blogger profile.
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1. The Beggar Maid. Triart short subject 1921. Directed by Lejaren Agiler. With Reginald Denny, Mary Astor in the title role. 2. The Young Painter. Triart short subject 1921. Directed by Lejaren Agiler. With Mary Astor. 3. Hope. Triart short subject 1921. Directed by Lejaren Agiler. With W. J. Gross, Mary Astor, Ralph Faulkner, Fred Gamble, Regan Stewart. Mary Astor as Joan, lighthouse keeper's daughter. 4. John Smith. Select 1922. Directed by Victor Heerman. With Eugene O'Brien, Viva Ogden, W. J. Ferguson, Tammany Young, Estar Banks, Frankie Mann, Mary Astor, George Fawcett, Barney Sherry, John Butler, Walter Greene, Warren Cook, Henry Sedley, Daniel Haynes. Mary Astor as Irene Mason, a maid. 5. The Man Who Played God. United Artists 1922. Directed by Harmon Weight. With George Arliss, Ann Forrest, Ivan Simpson, Edward Earle, Effie Shannon, Miriam Battista, Mickey Bennett, Mary Astor, Pierre Gendron, Margaret Seddon, J.D. Walsh. Mary Astor as young woman. 6. Second Fiddle. Hodkinson 1923. Directed by Frank Tuttle. With Glenn Hunter, Mary Astor, Townsend Martin, William Nally, Leslie Stowe, Mary Foy, Helenka Adamowska, Otto Lang, Osgood Perkins. Mary Astor as Polly Crawford, the heroine. 7. Success. Metro 1923. Directed by Ralph Ince. With Brandon Tynan, Naomi Childers, Mary Astor, Dore Davidson, Lioel Adams, Stanley Ridges, Robert Lee Keeling, Billy Quirk. Mary Astor as Rose Randolph, an actress. 8. The Bright Shawl. Assoc FN Pictures, 1923. Directed by John S. Robertson. With Richard Barthelmess, Andre Beranger, Edward G. Robinson, Margaret Seddon, Mary Astor, Lis Alberni, Anders Randolph, Dorothy Gish, William Powell, Jetta Goudal, George Humbert. Mary Astor as Narcissa Escobar, a Cuban girl. 9. The Rapids. Hodkinson 1923. Produced in Canada. Dircted by David M. Hartford. With Harry T. Morey, Mary Astor, Walter Miller, Frank Andrews. Mary Astor as the herione. 10. Puritan Passions. Hodkinson 1923. Directed by Frank Tuttle. With Glenn Hunter, Mary Astor, Osgood Perkins, Maude Hill, Frank Tweed, Dwight Wiman, Thomas Chalmers. Mary Astor as Rachael Wingate, a girl accused of witchcraft in Salem. 11. The Marriage Maker. Paramount 1923. Directed by William de Mille. With Agnes Ayres, Jack Holt, Charles La Roche, Robert Agnew, Mary Astor, Ethel Wales, Bertram Johns. Mary Astor as Vivian Hope-Clarke, a society girl. 12. Hollywood. Paramount 1923. Directed by James Cruze. With Hope Drown, Luke Cosgrave, George K. Arthur, Ruby Lafayette, Harris Gordon, Bess Flowers, Eleanor Lawson, King Zany, Roscoe Arbuckle, Gertrude Astor, Mary Astor, Agnes Ayres, Baby Peggy Montgomery, T. Roy Barnes, Noah Beery, Sr., William Boyd, Clarence Burton, Robert Cain, Edythe Chapman, Cecil B. DeMille, Viola Dana, Ricardo Cortez, Betty Compson, William deMille, Charles De Roche, Dinky Dean, Helen Dunbar, Snitz Edwards, George Fawcett, Julia Faye, James Finlayson, Alec B. Francis, Jack Gardner, Sid Grauman, Alfred E. Green, Alan Hale, Lloyd Hamilton, Hope Hampton, William S. Hart, Gale Henry, Walter Hiers, Stuart Holmes, Sigrid Holmquist, Jack Holt, Leatrice Joy, Mayme Kelso, J. Warren Kerrigan, Theodore Kosloff, Lila Lee, Lillian Leighton, Jacqueline Logan, May McAvoy, Robert McKim, Jeanie MacPherson, Hank Mann, Joe Martin, Thomas Meighan, Bull Montana, Owen Moore, Kalia Pasha, Eileen Percy, Carmen Phillips, Pola Negri, Nita Naldi, Anna Q. Nilsson, Charles Ogle, Guy Oliver, Jack Pickford, Chuck Reisner, Fritzi Ridgeway, Will Rogers, Ford Sterling, Anita Stewart, George Stewart, Gloria Swanson, Estelle Taylor, Ben Turpin, Bryant Washburn, Maude Wayne, Claire West, Laurence Wheat, Lois Wilson. Mary Astor with a host of other stars played herself. 13. Woman Proof. Paramount 1923. Directed by Alfred E. Green. With Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee, John Sainpolis, Louise Dresser, Robert Agnew, Mary Astor, Edgar Norton, Charles Sellon, George O'Brien, Vera Reynolds, Hardee Kirkland, Martha Mattox, William Gonder, Mike Donlin. Mary Astor as Violet Lynwood, a wealthy girl. 14. The Fighting Coward. Paramont 1924. Directed by James Cruze. With Ernest Torrence, Mary Astor, Noah Beery, Sr., Cullen Landis, Phyllis Haver, G. Rayond Nye, Richard Neill, Carmen Phillips, Bruce Covington, Helen Dunbar, Frank Jonasson. Mary Astor as Lucy, heroine. 15. Beau Brummell. Warner 1924. Directed by Harry Beaumont. With John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Willard Louis, Carmel Myers, Irene Rich, Alec B. Francis, William Humphreys, Richard Tucker, Andre Beranger, Clarissa Selwynne, John J. Richardson, Claire De Lorez, James Marcus, Richard Dark, Betty Brice, Roland Rushton, Carol Holloway, Kate Lester, Rose Dione. Mary Astor as Lady Margery Alvanley, Brummell's true love. 16. The Fighting American. Universal 1924. Directed by Tom Forman. With Pat O'Malley, Mary Astor, Raymond Hatton, Warner Oland, Edwin Brady, Taylor Carroll, Clarence Geldert, Alfred Fisher, Jack Byron, James Wang, Emmett King, Jane Starr, Frank Kingsley. Mary Astor as Mary O'Mallory, a missionary. 17. Unguarded Women. Paramount 1924. Directed by Alan Crosland. With Bebe Daniels, Richard Dix, Mary Astor, Walter McGrail, Frank Losee, Helen Lindroth, Harry Mestayer, Donald Hall, Joseph King. Mary Astor as Helen Castle, the heroine. 18. The Price of a Party. Associated Exhibitors. 1924. Directed by Charles Giblyn. With Hope Hampton, Harrison Ford, Arthur Carewe, Mary Astor, Dagmar Godowsky, Fred Hadley, Edna Richmond, Donald Lashey, Florence Richardson. Mary Astor as Alice Barrows, an innocent in New York. 19. Inez From Hollywood. First National 1924. Directed by Alfred E. Green. With Anna Q. Nilsson, Lewis Stone, Mary Astor, Laurence Wheat, Rose Dione, Snitz Edwards, Harry Depp, Ray Hallor, E. H. Calvert. Mary Astor as Fay Bartholdi, innocent sister of Inez. 20. Enticement. First National 1925. Directed by George Archainbaud. With Mary Astor, Clive Brook, Ian Keith, Louise Dresser, Edward Norton, Vera Lewis, Lillian Langdon, Lorimer Johnston, Maxine Elliott Hicks, Fenwick Oliver, Florence Wix, George Bunny, Roland Bottomley, Aileen Manning. Mary Astor as Lenore Bewlay, a wife unjustly accused of infidelity. 21. Oh, Doctor. Universal 1925. Directed by Harry A. Pollard. With Reginald Denny, Mary Astor, Otis Harlan, William V. Mong, Tom Ricketts, Lucille Ward, Mike Donlin, Clarence Geldert, Blanche Payson, George Kuwa, Martha Mattox, Helen Lynch. Mary Astor as Dolores Hicks, a nurse. 22. Playing With Souls. First National 1925. Directed by Ralph Ince. With Jacqueline Logan, Mary Astor, Belle Bennett, Clive Brook, William Collier, Jr., Jessie Arnold, Don Marion, Helen Hoge, Josef Swickard. Mary Astor as Margo, the heroine. 23. Don Q, Son of Zorro. United Artists. Directed by Donald Crisp. With Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Mary Astor, Jack McDonald, Donald Crisp, Stella De Lanti, Warner Oland, Jean Hersholt, Albert MacQuarrie, Lottie Pickford, Charles Stevens, Tote Du Crow, Martha Franklin, Juliette Belanger, Roy Coulson, Enrique Acosta. Mary Astor as Dolores De Muro, a Spanish General's daughter. 24. The Pace That Thrills. First National, 1925. Directed by Webster Campbell. With Ben Lyon, Mary Astor, Charles Beyer, Tully Marshall, Wheeler Oakman, Thomas Holding, Evelyn Hall, Warner Richmond, Fritzi Brunette, Paul Ellis. Mary Astor as Doris the heroine. 25. Scarlet Saint. First National 1925. Directed by George Archainbaud. With Mary Astor, Lloyd Hughes, Frank Morgan, Jed Prouty, J. W. Jenkins, Frances Grant, George Neville, Jack Raymond. Mary Astor as Fidele Tridon, daughter of a wealthy New Orleans businessman. 26. High Steppers. First National 1926. Directed by Edwin Carewe. With Lloyd Hughes, Mary Astor, Dolores Del Rio, Rita Carewe, John T. Murray, Edwards Davis, Alec B. Francis, Clarissa Selwynne, Charles Sellon, John Steppling, Emily Fitzroy, Margaret McWade. Mary Astor as Audrey Nye, a newspaper reporter. 27. The Wise Guy. First National 1926. Directed by Frank Lloyd. With Mary Astor, James Kirkwood, Betty Compson, George F. Marion, Mary Carr, George Cooper. Mary Astor as Mary, crooked daughter of a minister. 28. Forever After. First National 1926. Directed by F. Harmon Weight. With Lloyd Hughes, Mary Astor, Hallam Cooley, David Torrence, Eulalie Jensen, Alec B. Francis, Lila Leslie. Mary Astor as Jennie Clayton, daughter of a wealthy family. 29. Don Juan. Warner Brothers 1926. Directed by Alan Crosland. With John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Willard Louis, Estelle Taylor, Helene Costello, Myrna Loy, Jane Winton, John Roche, June Marlowe, Yvonne Day, Philippe De Lacey, Warner Oland, Montagu Love, Josef Swickard, Lionel Braham, Phyllis Haver, Nigel De Brulier, Hedda Hopper, Helen Lee Worthing, Emily Fitzroy, Gustav Von Seyffertitz, Sheldon Lewis, Gibson Gowland, Dick Sutherland, John George. Mary Astor as Adrianna Della Varnese, the true love of Don Juan. 30. The Sea Tiger. First National 1926. Directed by John Francis Dillon. With Milton Sills, Mary Astor, Larry Kent, Alice White, Kate Price, Arthur Stone, Emily Fitzroy, Joe Bonomo. Mary Astor as Amy, daughter of a Spanish grandee. 31. The Rough Riders. Paramount 1927. Directed by Victor Fleming. With Noah Beery, Sr., Charles Farrell, George Bancroft, Mary Astor, Charles Emett Mack, Frank Hopper, Fred Lindsay, Fred Kohler, Sr. Mary Astor as Dolly, the heroine. 32. The Sunset Derby. First National 1927. Directed by Albert Rogell. With Mary Astor, William Collier, Jr., Ralph Lewis, David Kirby, Lionel Belmore, Burt Ross, Henry Barrows, Bobby Doyle, Michael Visaroff. Mary Astor as Molly Gibson, a racehorse owner's daughter. 33. Rose of the Golden West. First National 1927. Directed by George Fitzmaurice. With Mary Astor, Gilbert Roland, Gustav Von Seyffertitz, Montagu Love, Flora Finch, Harvey Clark, Roel Muriel, Andre Cheron, Romaine Fielding, Thur Fairfax, William Conklin, Christina Montt, Cullen Tate. Mary Astor as Elena Vallero, a convent notive, who falls in love. 34. Two Arabian Nights. United Artists 1927. Directed by Lewis Milestone. With William Boyd, Mary Astor, Louis Wolheim, Michael Vavitch, Ian Keith, DeWitt Jennings, Michael Visaroff, Boris Karloff. Mary Astor as Anis Bin Adham, an Arab girl of rank. 35. No Place To Go. First National 1927. Directed by Mervyn Le Roy. With Mary Astor, Lloyd Hughes, Hallam Cooley, Myrtle Stedman, Virginia Lee Corbin, Jed Prouty, Russ Powell. Mary Astor as Sally Montgomery, a banker's daughter. 36. Sailors Wives. First National 1928. Directed by Joseph E. Henabery. With Mary Astor, Lloyd Hughes, Earle Foxe, Burr McIntosh, Ruth Dwyer, Jack Mower, Olive Tell, Robert Schable, Gayne Whitman, Bess True. Mary Astor as Carol Trent, a girl facing blindness. 37. Dressed To Kill. Fox 1928. Directed by Irving Cummings. With Edmund Lowe, Mary Astor, Ben Bard, Robert Perry, Joe Brown, Tom Dugan, John Kelly, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Richard O. Penell, Edward Brady, Charles Morton. Mary Astor as Jeanne, who poses as a gang moll. 38. Three-Ring Marriage. First National 1928. Directed by Marshall Neilan. With Mary Astor, Lloyd Hughes, Lawford Davidson, Yola D%%vril, Alice White, Harry Earles, Tiny Earles, George Reed, R. E. Madsen, Anna MacGruder, James Neill, Del Henderson, Rudy Cameron, Skeets Gallagher, Jay Eaton, Art Rollins. Mary Astor as Anna Montana, a circus trick rider. 39. Heart To Heart. First National 1928. Directed by William Beaudine. With Mary Astor, Lloyd Hughes, Louise Fazenda, Lucien Littlefield, Thelma Todd, Raymond McKee, Virginia Grey, Aileen Manning. Mary Astor as Princess Delatorre, young widow of Italian royalty. 40. Dry Martini. Fox 1928. Directed by Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast. With Mary Astor, Matt Moore, Jocelyn Lee, Sally Eilers, Albert Gran, Albert Conti, Tom Ricketts, Hugh Trevor, John Webb Dillon, Marcelle Corday. Mary Astor as Elizabeth Quimby, a fun loving flapper. 41. Romance of the Underworld. Fox 1928. Directed by Irving Cummings. With Mary Astor, Ben Bard, Robert Elliott, John Boles, Oscar Apfel, Helen Lynch, William H. Tooker. Mary Astor as Judith Andrews, a prostitute who goes straight. 42. New Year's Eve. Fox 1929. Directed by Henry Lehrman. With Mary Astor, Charles Morton, Earle Foxe, Florence Lake, Arthur Stone, Helen Ware, Freddie Burke Frederick, Jane La Verne, Sumner Getchell, Stuart Erwin, Virginia Vance. Mary Astor as Marjorie Ware, a girl accused of murder. 43. The Woman From Hell. Fox 1929. Directed by A. F. Erickson. With Mary Astor, Robert Armstrong, Dean Jagger, Roy D'Arcy, May Boley, James Bradbury, Sr. Mary Astor as Bee, a girl from a side show who marries a lighthouse keeper. 44. Ladies Love Brutes. Paramount 1930. Directed by Rowland V. Lee. With George Bancroft, Mary Astor, Fredric March, Margaret Quimby, Stanley Fields, Ben Hendricks, Jr., Lawford Davidson, Ferike Boros, David Durand, Freddie Burke Frederick, Paul Fix, Claud Allister, E. H. Calvert, Crauford Kent. Mary Astor as Mimi Howell, a society woman. 45. The Runaway Bride. RKO 1930. Directed by Donald Crisp. With Mary Astor, Lloyd Hughes, David Newell, Natalie Moorhead, Maurice Black, Paul Hurst, Edgar Norton, Francis McDonald, Harry Tenbrook, Phil Brady, Theodore Lorch. Mary Astor as Mary Gray, a newlywed, who gets innocently involved with crooks. 46. Holiday. RKO 1930. Directed by Edward H. Griffith. With Ann Harding, Mary Astor, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Ames, Hedda Hopper, Monroe Owsley, William Holden, Elizabeth Forrester, Mabel Forrest, Creighton Hale, Hallam Cooley, Mary Forbes. Mary Astor as Julia Seton a spoiled society girl. 47. The Lash (aka Adios). Warner Brothers 1930. Directed by Frank Lloyd. With Richard Barthelmess, Mary Astor, Fred Kohler, Sr., Marian Nixon, James Rennie, Robert Edeson, Arthur Stone, Barbara Bedford, Mathilde Comont, Erville Alderson. Mary Astor as Rosita Garcia, a high born Mexican-American. 48. The Royal Bed. RKO 1931. Directed by Lowell Sherman. With Lowell Sherman, Mary Astor, Anthony Bushell, Hugh Trevor, Nance O'neil, Robert Warwick, Gilbert Emery, Alan Roscoe, Frederic Burt, J. Carrol Naish, Desmond Roberts, Lita Chevret, Nancy Lee Blaine. Mary Astor as Princess Anne, who loves a commoner. 49. Other Men's Women/The Steele Highway. Warner Brothers 1931. Directed by William A. Wellman. With Grant Withers, Mary Astor, Regis Toomey, James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Fred Kohler, Sr., J. Farrell MacDonald, Lillian Worth, Walter Long, Bob Perry, Kewpie Morgan, Lee Morgan, Pat Hartigan.Mary Astoras Lily, a wife who falls in love with husband's best friend. 50. Behind Office Doors. RKO 1931. Directed by Melville Brown. With MA, Robert Ames, Ricardo Cortez, Catherine Dale Owen, Kitty Kelly, Edna Murphy, Charles Sellon, William Morris, George MacFarlane. Mary Astor as Mary Linden, a business secretary. 51. The Sin Ship. RKO 1931. Directed by Louis Wolheim. With Louis Wolheim, Mary Astor, Ian Keith, Hugh Herbert, Russ Powell, Alan Roscoe, Bert Stanley. Mary Astor as Frisco-Kitty, a gang moll who reforms. 52. White Shoulders. RKO 1931. Directed by Melville Brown. With Mary Astor, Jack Holt, Ricardo Cortez, Sidney Toler, Kitty Kelly, Nicholas Soussanin, Robert Keith. Mary Astor as Norma Selbee Kent, a showgirl who marries a millionaire. 53. Smart Woman. RKO 1931. Directed by Gregory La Cava. With MA, Robert Ames, John Halliday, Edward Everett Horton, Noel Francis, Ruth Weston, Gladys Gale, Alfred Cross, Lillian Harmer, Pearl Varvelle. Mary Astor as Nancy Gibson, a wealthy wife, whose husband strays. 54. Men of Chance. RKO 1932. Directed by George Archainbaud. With Ricardo Cortez, Mary Astor, John Halliday, Ralph Ince, Kitty Kelly, James Donlan, George Davis, Andre Cheron, Albert Petit, Jean De Briac. Mary Astor as Marthe Preston, a down and out showgirl who poses as a countess. 55. The Lost Squadron. RKO 1932. Directed by George Archainbaud. With Richard Dix, Mary Astor, Robert Armstrong, Dorothy Jordan, Erich Von Stroheim, Hugh Herbert, Joel McCrea, Ralph Ince, Marjorie Peterson, Ralph Lewis, William B. Davidson, Dick Grace, Art Goebel, Leo Nomis, Frank Clark, Freeman Lang. Mary Astor as Follette Marsh, a film star. 56. A Successful Calamity. Warner Brothers 1932. Directed by John G. Adolfi. With George Arliss, Mary Astor, Evalyn Knapp, Grant Mitchell, Hardie Albright, William Janney, David Torrence, Randolph Scott, Hale Hamilton, Fortunio Bonanova, Oscar Apfel, Murray Kinnell, Harold Minjir, Barbara Leonard, Eula Guy, Leon Ames, Virginia Hammond, Richard Tucker, Charles Coleman, John Rutherford, Nola Luxford, Helena Phillips Evans. Mary Astor as Emmy, spoiled second wife of an elderly banker. 57. Those We Love. World Wide 1932. Directed by Robert Florey. With Mary Astor, Kenneth McKenna, Lilyan Tashman, Hale Hamilton, Tommy Conlon, Earle Foxe, Forrester Harvey, Virginia Sale, Pat O'Malley, Harvey Clark, Cecil Cunningham, Edwin Maxwell. Mary Astor as May Ballard Williston, wife from youth to middle age. 58. Red Dust. MGM 1932. Directed by Victor Fleming. With Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor, Gene Raymond, Donald Crisp, Tully Marshall, Forrester Harvey, Willie Fung. Mary Astor as Barbara Willis, young wife who has an illicit affair. 59. The Little Giant. Warner Brothers 1933. Directed by Roy Del Ruth. With Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Helen Vinson, Russell Hopton, Kenneth Thomson, Shirley Grey, Berton Churchill, Donald Dillaway, Louise Mackintosh, Helen Mann, Sidney Bracey, Selmer Jackson, Rolfe Sedan, John Kelly, Adrian Morris, Dewey Robinson, William Gordon-Elliott, Bob Perry, Charles Coleman, Leonard Carey, Nora Cecil, Lorena Layson, Joan Barclay, Lorin Raker, Lester Dorr, Lynn Browning, Pat Wing, Toby Wing, John Marston, Harry Tenbrook, Guy Usher, Ann Hovey, Renae Whitney, Loretta Andrews, Margaret La Marr, Jayne Shadduck, Maxine Cantway, Alice Jans, Barbara Rogers, Bonnie Bannon. Mary Astor as Ruth Wayburn, a real estate agent. 60. Jennie Gerhardt. Paramount 1933. Directed by Marion Gering. With Sylvia Sidney, Donald Cook, Mary Astor, Edward Arnold, H. B. Warner, Louise Carter, Cora Sue Collins, Dorothy Libaire, Gilda Storm, Theodore Von Eltz, Greta Meyer, David Durand, Walter Walker, David O'Brien, Betsy Ann Hisle, Frank Reicher, Morgan Wallace, Gene Morgan, Jane Darwell, Lillian Harmer, Ernest Wood, Rose Coghlan. Mary Astor as Letty Pace, wife to Cook character. 61. The Kennel Murder Case. Warner Brothers 1933. Directed by Michael Curtiz. With William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Morgan, Robert Barrat, Frank Conroy, Robert McWade, Etienne Giradot, James Lee, Paul Cavanagh, Arthur Hohl, Helen Vinson, Jack La Rue, Henry O'Neill, Spencer Charters, Charles Wilson, Don Brodie, George Chandler, Wade Boteler, Harry Allen, Milton Kibbee, Leo White, James Burke, Monty Vandergrift. Mary Astor as Hilda Lake, a murder suspect. 62. The World Changes. Warner Brothers 1933. Directed by Mervyn Le Roy. With Paul Muni, Aline MacMahon, Mary Astor, Donald Cook, Jean Muir, Guy Kibbee, Patricia Ellis, Theodore Newton, Margaret Lindsay, Gordon Westcott, Henry O'Neill, Anna Q. Nilsson, Arthur Hohl, Douglass Dumbrille, Mickey Rooney, William Janney, Wallis Clark, Marjorie Gateson, William Burress, Oscar Apfel, Alan Mowbray, Clay Clement, Willard Robertson, Sidney Toler, Philip Faversham, Jackie Searle. Mary Astor as Virginia Nordholm, social climbing wife to Muni character. 63. Convention City. Warner Brothers 1933. Directed by Archie Mayo. With Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou, Dick Powell, Mary Astor, Guy Kibbee, Frank McHugh, Patricia Ellis, Ruth Donnelly, Hugh Herbert, Grant Mitchell, Egon Brecher, Hobart Cavanaugh, Sheila Terry, Gordon Westcott, Barbara Rogers, Harry C. Bradley, Douglass Dumbrille, Lorin Raker, Huey White, Virginia Howell, Johnny Arthur, Samuel S. Hinds, William Burress, Sam Godfrey. Mary Astor as Arline Dale, a saleswoman at a sales convention. 64. Easy To Love. Warner Brothers 1934. Directed by William Keighley. With Genevieve Tobin, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Astor, Edward Everett Horton, Patricia Ellis, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert, Paul Kaye, Hobart Cavanaugh, Robert Craig, Harold Waldridge. Mary Astor as Charlotte Hopkins, the other woman. 65. Upper World. Warner Brothers 1934. Directed by Roy Del Ruth. With Warren William, Mary Astor, Ginger Rogers, Andy Devine, Dickie Moore, Ferdinand Gottschalk, J. Carroll Naish, Sidney Toler, Theodore Newton, Henry O'Neill, Robert Barrat, Robert Greig, Frank Sheridan, John Qualen, Willard Robertson, Nora Cecil, Lester Dorr, Wilfred Lucas, Cliff Saum, William Jeffrey, Edward Le Saint, John Elliott, Armand Kaliz, Joyce Owen, Milton Kibbee, James Burtis, Marie Astaire, Lucille Collins, Jay Eaton, Douglas Cosgrove, Guy Usher, Clay Clement, James Durkin, Monte Vandegrift, Edwin Stanley, Jack Cheatham, Tom McGuire, Bert Moorhouse, Sidney De Grey, Howard Hickman, Frank Conroy, Henry Otho, William B. Davidson. Mary Astor as Hettie Stream, social climber. 66. The Hollywood Gad-About. Educational 1934. Presented by E. W. Hammons. American Treasure chest short. Various notables are involved with stolen necklace. With Gary Cooper, Eddie Cantor, Mary Astor, James Cagney, Shirley Temple, Alice White, Chester Morris, Walter Winchell. 67. Return of the Terror. Warner Brothers 1934. Directed by Howard Bretherton. With Mary Astor, Lyle Talbot, John Halliday, Frank McHugh, Robert Barrat, Irving Pichel, George E. Stone, Frank Reicher, J. Carroll Naish, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Renee Whitney, Maude Eburne, Etienne Giradot, Charley Grapewin, George Humbert, Edmund Breese, George Cooper, Cecil Cunningham, Frank Conroy, Harry Seymour, Howard Hickman, Lorena Layson, Philip Morris, Bert Moorhouse, Eddie Schubert. Mary Astor as Olga Morgan, menaced heroine. 68. The Man With Two Faces. Warner Brothers 1934. Directed by Archie Mayo. With Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez, Mae Clarke, Louis Calhern, Arthur Byron, John Eldredge, David Landau, Emily Fitzroy, Dorothy Tree, Margaret Dale, Anton Stengel, Arthur Ayslworth, Virginia Sale, Mary Russell, Mrs. Wilfrid North, Howard Hickman, Maude Turner Gordon, Dick Winslow, Frank Darien, Bert Moorhouse, Ray Cooke, Jack McHugh, Douglas Cosgrove, Wade Boteler, Guy Usher, Joseph Crehan, Milton Kibbee, Henry O'Neill. Mary Astor as Jessica Wells, an actress. 69. The Case of the Howling Dog. Warner Brothers 1934. Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins, Grant Mitchell, Helen Trenholme, Helen Lowell, Dorothy Tree, Gordon Westcott, Harry Tyler, Russell Hicks, Frank Reicher, Addison Richards, James Burtis, Eddie Shubert, Harry Seymour, Arthur Aylsworth, Joseph Crehan, William Gordon?Elliott, Joseph Sawyer. Mary Astor as Bessie Foley, a murder suspect. 70. Straight From The Heart. Universal 1935. Directed by Scott R. Beal. With Mary Astor, Roger Pryor, Juanita Quigley, Carol Coombe, Andy Devine, Grant Mitchell, Robert McWade, Doris Lloyd, Clara Blandick, Henry Armetta, Douglas Fowley, Willard Robertson, Louis Carter, Hilda Vaughn, Esther Howard, Marion Lord, Donald Haines, George Ernest, Hele Parrish, Timmy Butts, Frank Reicher, William B. Davidson, Yola D'Avril, Georgette Rhodes, James Flavin, Warner Richmond, Howard Hickman, Jack Mulhall, Franklin Parker, Stanley Price, Philip Tead, Ronnie Cosbey, Joan Standing, Veda Buckland, Bernard Suss, Arthur Howe, Shirley Jean Rickert, Nestor Aber, Samuel T. Godfrey, Velma Gresham, William Norton Bailey, Norma Drew, Tom O?rady, Dorothy Vernon, Beth Hazelton, Louise Lester, Lillian Castel, Kathryn Sheldon. Mary Astor as Marian Henshaw, as social worker at an orphanage. 71. Dinky. Warner Brothers 1935. Directed by D. Ross Lederman. With Jackie Cooper, Mary Astor, Roger Pryor, Henry Armetta, Betty Jane Haney, Henry O'Neill, Jimmy Butler, George Ernest, Sidney Miller, Richard Quine, Frank Gernardi, Edith Fellows, Clay Clement, Florence Fair, Addison Richards, Joseph Crehan, James Burke. Mary Astor as Mrs. Martha Daniels, mother to Dinky character, played by Cooper. 72. Red Hot Tires. Warner Brothers 1935. Directed by D. Ross Lederman. With Lyle Talbot, Mary Astor, Roscoe Karns, Gavin Gordon, Frankie Darro, Mary Treen, Henry Kolker, Bradley Page, Arthur Aylsworth, Clarence Muse, Howard Hickman, John Elliott, Eddie Sturgis, Selmer Jackson, Robert Homans, Wade Boteler, Lottie Williams, George Offerman, Jr., Lee Phelps, Edward Keane, Eddie Chandler, Frank Puglia. Mary Astor as Patricia Sanford, daughter of a racing car designer. 73. Page Miss Glory. Warner Brothers 1935. Directed by Mervyn Le Roy. With Marion Davies, Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell, Mary Astor, Frank McHugh, Lyle Talbot, Allen Jenkins, Barton McLane, Patsy Kelly, Hobart Cavanaugh, Joseph Cawthorn, Al Shean, Berton Churchill, Helen Lowell, Mary Treen, Harry Beresford, Gavin Gordon, Lionel Stander, Joseph Crehan, Jack Mulhall, Gayne Whitman, Oscar Apfel, Paul de Rincon, Edward Cooper, John Quillan, Charles Irwin, Claudia Coleman, Emmett Vogan, William Gordon-Elliott, Franklyn Farnum, Charles Moore, Pat West, Rudy Cameron, Edward Hearn, Philip Tead, Jack Norton, Jack Mulhall, Ernie Alexander, Irving Bacon. Mary Astor as Gladys Russell, a photographer. 74. I Am a Thief. Warner Brothers 1935. Directed by Robert Florey. With Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges, Robert Barrat, Irving Pichel, Hobart Cavanaugh, Arthur Aylsworth, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Florence Fair, Frank Reicher, John Wray, Oscar Apfel. Mary Astor as Odette Mauclair, a suspected jewel thief. 75. Man of Iron. Warner Brothers 1935. Directed by William McGann. With Barton McLane, Mary Astor, John Eldredge, Dorothy Peterson, Joseph Crehan, Craig Reynolds, Joseph Sawyer, Joseph King, John Qualen, William Gordon-Elliott, Edward Keane, Florence Fair, George Pogue, Irving Bacon, Don Downen, Cyril Ring, Fred Toones, George Reed, Joel Waldron, Herbert Evans, Tom Manning, Milton Kibbee, Mrs. Wilfred North, Edwin Stanley, Eddie Shubert, Nick Copeland, Buddy Roosevelt, Marty Faust, Harry Tenbrook, Dutch Hendrian, Bert Lindley, George Magrill, Sam Appel, Sam Rice, Gordon Carveth. Mary Astor as Vida, secretary at a steel mill. 76. The Murder of Dr. Harrigan. Warner Brothers 1936. Directed by Frank McDonald. With Ricardo Cortez, Kay Linaker. John Eldredge, Mary Astor, Joseph Crehan, Frank Reicher, Anita Kerry, Phillip Reed, Robert Strange, William Gordon-Elliott, Mary Treen, Don Barclay, Johnny Arthur, Joan Blair, Ellen Lowe, Frank Shannon, Mary Russell, Martha Tibbetts. Mary Astor as Lillian Cooper, a nurse. 77. And So They Were Married. Columbia 1936. Directed by Elliott Nugent. With Melvyn Douglas, Mary Astor, Edith Fellows, Jackie Moran, Donald Meek, Dorothy Stickney, Romaine Callender, Douglas Scott, Margaret Armstrong, Olaf Hytten, George McKay, Phyllis Godfrey, Hooper Atchley, Alan Bridge, Gennaro Curci, Jay Eaton, Margaret Morgan, Gus Reed, Beatrice Blinn, Wade Boteler, Charles Irwin, Gene Morgan, William Irving, Dennis O'Keefe, Anne Schaefer, Charles Arnst, Joe Caits, Kernan Cripps, Jessie Perry, Ernie Alexander, Adolph Faylauer, Beatrice Curtis. Mary Astor as Edith Farnham, a divorcee. 78. Trapped By Television. Columbia 1936. Directed by Del Lord. With Mary Astor, Lyle Talbot, Nat Pendleton, Joyce Compton, Thurston Hall, Henry Mollison, Wyrley Birch, Marc Lawrence, Robert Strange, Lillian Leighton, Bobby Gordon, Boy Irwin, Harry C. Bradley, Howard Hickman, Russell Hicks, Max Wagner, Ralph McCullough, Lloyd Whitlock, Eddie Fetherstone, Caroline Houseman, Harry Stafford, Neil Moore, Bruce Sidney, George Webb, Lillian Stuart. Mary Astor as Barbara Blake, who invests in television invention. 79. Dodsworth. United Artists 1936. Directed by William Wyler. With Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Mary Astor, Paul Lukas, David Niven, MAria Ouspenskaya, Gregory Gaye, Spring Byington, Odette Myrtil, John Payne, Kathryn Marlow, Harlan Briggs, Beatrice Maude, Inez Palange, Gino Corrado, Charles Halton. Mary Astor as Edith Cortwright, American expatriate in Italy. 80. Lady From Nowhere. Columbia 1936. Directed by Gordon Wiles. With Mary Astor, Charles Quigley, Thurston Hall, Victor Kilian, Claudia Coleman, Rita La Roy, Spencer Charters, Norman Willis, John Tyrell, John Hamilton, George DeNormand, Harry Tyler, Matty Fain, Gene Morgan, Edwin Stanley, Frank Melton, Horace Murphy, Bob MacKenzie, Joe Bernard, Jack Kennedy, Gennaro Curci, Victor Potel, Edward Le Saint, Wedgwood Nowell, C. L. Sherwood, Lowell Drew. Mary Astor as Polly Dunlop, a hotel manicurist. 81. The Prisoner of Zenda. United Artists 1937. Directed by John Cromwell. With Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., MA, C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Massey, David Niven, Montagu Love, William Von Brincken, Philip Sleeman, Forence Roberts, Eleanor Wesselhoeft, Torben Meyer, Lawrence Grant, Ian MacLaren, Ralph Faulkner, Byron Foulger, Howard Lang, Ben Webster, Evelyn Beresford, Alexander D'Arcy, Al Shean, Emmett King, Boyd Irwin, Spencer Charters, Henry Roquemore, Lillian Harmer, Pat Somerset, Leslie Sketchley, Charles Halton. Mary Astor as Antoinette de Mauban, an adventuress. 82. The Hurricane. United Artists 1937. Directed by John Ford. With Jon Hall, Dorothy Lamour, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond Massey, John Carradine, Jerome Cowan, Al Kikume, Layne Tom, Jr., Mamo Clark, Movita Castenada, Kuuilei De Clercq, Flora Hayes, Mary Shaw, Spencer Charters, Roger Drake, Pauline Steele, Inez Courtney, Francis Kaai. Mary Astor as Germaine De Laage, wife of Island governor. 83. No Time To Marry. Columbia 1938. Directed by Harry Lachman. With Richard Arlen, Mary Astor, Lionel Stander, Virginia Dale, Marjorie Gateson, Thurston Hall, Arthur Loft, Jay Adler, Charles Trowbridge, Paul Hurst, Matt McHugh, George Humbert, Jack Dougherty, Edgar Dearing, Allen Mathews, Louis Jean Heydt, Anthony Hughes, Anna Demetrio, Frank Faylen, Nora Cecil, William Benedict, C. Montague Shaw, Joseph Tozer, Lee Phelps, Walter Merrill, Jerry Tucker, Eddie Laughton, George French, Allen Brook, Charles Coleman, Scotty Beckett. Mary Astor as Kay McGowan, a newspaper reporter. 84. Paradise For Three. MGM 1938. Directed by Edward Buzzell. With Frank Morgan, Robert Young, Mary Astor, Edna May Oliver, Florence Rice, Reginald Owen, Henry Hull, Herman Bing, Sig Rumann, Walter Kingsford, Jack Norton, Anna Q. Nilsson, Grace Goodall, Florence Wix, Hazel Laughton, George Ernest, Greta Meyer, Mariska Aldrich, Jean Fenwick, Robert Canterio, Rolfe Sedan, Jacques Vanaire, George Sorel, Lilyan Irene, Max Lucke, Mary Howard, Gustav Von Seyffertitz, Edwin Maxwell, Maurice Cass, Wedgewood Nowell, Max Barwyn, Abe Dinovitch, Billy Dooley, Roger Moore, Henry Sylvester, Elsa Christian, Mary Astor as Irene Mallebre, a gold digger. 85. There's Always a Woman. Columbia 1938. Directed by Alexander Hall. With Joan Blondell, Melvyn Douglas, Mary Astor, Frances Drake, Jerome Cowan, Robert Paige, Thurston Hall, Pierre Watkin, Walter Kingsford, Lester Matthews, Tom Dugan, Gene Morgan, Rita Hayworth, Wade Boteler, Wyn Cahoon, Arthur Loft, William H. Strauss, Marek Windheim, Bud Jamison, George Davis, Robert Emmett Keane, Lucille Ward, Eddie Fetherston, Joseph De Stefani, John Gallaudet, Ted Oliver, Gene Morgan, Bud Geary, William Benedict, Lee Phelps, Eddie Dunn, George McKay, Nell Craig. Mary Astor as Lola Fraser, a murderess. 86. Woman Against Woman. MGM 1938. Directed by Robert B. Sinclair. With Herbert Marshall, Virginia Bruce, Mary Astor, Janet Beecher, Marjorie Rambeau, Juanita Quigley, Zeffie Tilbury, Sarah Padden, Betty Ross Clarke, Dorothy Christie, Morgan Wallace, Joseph Crehan, Libby Taylor, Howard Hickman, Marie Blake, Sarah Edwards, Leonard Penn, Roger Converse, Jason Robards, Sr., Henry Roquemore, Barbara Bedford, Claire Owen, Frederick Vroom, George Ovey, William Irving, Eva Dennison, Hal Cooke, Adele Girard, Jack Fowler, Lorraine MacLean, Edward Earle, Jacques Vanaire, Forbes Murray, Tom Rutherford, Paul Power, Sherry Hall, Estelle Eterre, Ralph Brooks, I. Stanford Jolley, Stanley Orr. Mary Astor as Cynthia Holland, selfish wife of Marshall character. 87. Listen Darling. MGM 1938. Directed by Edwin L. Marin. With Judy Garland, Freddie Bartholomew, Mary Astor, Walter Pidgeon, Alan Hale, Scott Beckett, Barnett Parker, Gene Lockhart, Charley Grapewin, Edgar Dearing. Mary Astor as Dotty Wingate, a widow and mother of two children. 88. Midnight. Paramount 1939. Directed by Mitchell Leisen. With Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor, Elaine Barrie, Hedda Hopper, Rex O'Malley, Monty Woolley, Armand Kaliz, Lionel Pape, Ferdinand Munier, Gennaro Curci, William Eddritt, Michael Visaroff, Paul Bryar, Elspeth Dudgeon, Carlos De Valdez, Arno Frey, Joseph De Stefani, Helen St. Rayner, Billy Daniels, Bryant Washburn, Max Lucke, Leonard Sues, Robert Graves, Eddy Conrad, Eugene Borden, Joseph Romantini, Leander De Cordova, Nestor Paiva, Judith King, Joyce Mathews, Harry Semels. Mary Astor as Helene Flamarion, the Barrymore character's flirtatious wife. 89. Turnabout. United Artists 1940. Directed by Hal Roach. With Adolphe Menjou, Carole Landis, John Hubbard, William Gargan, Mary Astor, Verree Teasdale, Donald Meek, Joyce Compton, Inez Courtney, Franklin Pangborn, Marjorie Main, Berton Churchill, Margaret Roach, Ray Turner, Polly Ann Young, Norman Budd, Eleanor Riley, Murray Alper, Miki Morita, Yolande Donlan, Georges Renavent, Chester Clute, Laurence Wheat, Wright Kramer, Harold Minjir, Jack Rice, Buddy Messinger, Ward Arnold, Forbes Murray, Belle Dugan, Jerry Mandy, Hal Cooke, Carlie Taylor, Jack Egan, Peter Adams, Gwen Kenyon, Mildred Sellers, Alaine Brandes, Frances Morris, Louise Richie, Elsa Peterson, Marshall Ruth, Jack Davidson, Robert Shaw, Joe Hartman, Bert Moorhouse, Gwen Seager. Mary Astor as Marion Manning, wife to Menjou character. 90. Brigham Young. Fox 1940. Directed by Henry Hathaway. With Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger, Brian Donlevy, Jane Darwell, Mary Astor, John Carradine, Vincent Price, Jean Rogers, Ann E. Todd, Willard Robertson, Moroni Olsen, Marc Lawrence, Stanley Andrews, Frank Thomas, Fuzzy Knight, Dickie Jones, Russell Simpson, Chief Big Tree, Arthur Aylesworth, Tully Marshall, Dick Rich, Davidson Clark, Selmer Jackson, Claire Du Brey, Ralph Dunn, Edwin Maxwell, Edmund MacDonald, George Melford, Lee Shumway, David Kirkland, Charles Middleton, Frederick Burton, Charles Halton, Philip Morris, Frank La Rue, Paul E. Burns, Cecil Weston, Ruth Robinson, Eddy Waller, Herbert Heywood, Frank Shannon, Edmund Elton, Harry Tyler, William Haade, Imboden Parrish, Murdock MacQuarrie. Mary Astor as Mary Ann Young, Brigham Young's first wife. 91. The Great Lie. Warner Brothers 1941. Directed by Edmund Goulding. With Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor, Lucile Watson, Hattie MacDaniel, Grant Mitchell, Jerome Cowan, Thurston Hall, Sam McDaniel, Charles Trowbridge, Russell Hicks, Virginia Brissac, Doris Lloyd, J. Farrell MacDonald, Olin Howland, Alphonse Martell, Georgia Caine, Charlotte Wynters, Cyril Ring, George Kirby, Addison Richards, Georges Renavent, George Reed, Richard Clayton, Napoleon Simpson, Lottie Williams. Mary Astor as Sandra Kovak, a self centered concert pianist. 92. The Maltese Falcon. Warner Brothers 1941. Directed by John Huston. With Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Walter Huston, Barton McLane, Sydney Greenstreet, Lee Patrick, Ward Bond, Jerome Cowan, Elisha Cook, Jr., James Burke, John Hamilton, Emory Parnell, Robert Homans, Creighton Hale, Charles Drake, William Hopper, Hank Mann, Jack Mower, Murray Alper. Mary Astor as Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a crook. 93. Across the Pacific. Warner Brothers 1942. Directed by John Huston. With Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Charles Halton, Victor Sen Yung, Frank Wilcox, Lester Matthews, Paul Stanton, Lee Tung Foo, Roland Got, John Hamilton, Tom Stevenson, Monte Blue, Kam Tong, Chester Gan, Richard Loo, Keye Luke, Spencer Chan, William Hopper, Rudy Robles, Frank Mayo, Garland Smith, Dick French, Charles Drake, Will Morgan, Roland Drew, Jack Mower, Eddie Dew, Frank Faylen, Ruth Ford, Eddie Lee, Richard Botiller, Beal Wong, Philip Ahn, Anthony Caruso, James Leong, Paul Fung, Gordon De Main. Mary Astor as Alberta Marlow, a woman of dubious background. 94. The Palm Beach Story. Paramount 1942. Directed by Preston Sturges. With Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, Sig Arno, Robert Warwick, Arthur Stuart Hull, Torben Meyer, Jimmy Conlin, Victor Potel, William Demarest, Jack Norton, Robert Greig, Roscoe Ates, Dewey Robinson, Chester Conklin, Sheldon Jett, Franklin Pangborn, Robert Dudley, Esther Howard, Alan Bridge, Arthur Hoyt, Fred Toones, Frank Moran, Harry Rosenthal, Charles B. Moore, Howard Mitchell, Harry Hayden, Monte Blue, Esther Michelson, Harry Tyler, Edward McNamara, Manton Moreland, Keith Richards, Max Wagner, Frank Faylen, Wilson Benge, Byro Foulger, John Holland, Julius Tannen, Bess Flowers, J. Farrell McDonald, Odette Myrtil, Marcelle Corday, Amanda Randolph. Mary Astor as Princess Centimillia, much married socialite. 95. Young Ideas. MGM 1943. Directed by Jules Dassin. With Susan Peters, Mary Astor, Elliott Reid, Richard Carlson, Allyn Joslyn, Dorothy Morris, Frances Rafferty, George Dolenz, Emory Parnell. Mary Astor as Jo Evans, mother to Peters and Reid characters. 96. Thousands Cheer. MGM 1943. Directed by George Sidney. With Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, Mary Astor, John Boles, Jose Iturbi, Dick Simmons, Ben Blue, Frank Jenks, Frank Sully, Wally Cassell, Ben Lessy, Frances Rafferty, Odette Myrtil, Will Kaufman, Lionel Barrymore, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Ann Sothern, Marsha Hunt, Marilyn Maxwell, Lena Horne, Virginia O'Brien, Gloria de Haven, June Allyson, Margaret O'Brien, Donna Reed, Sara Haden, Frank Morgan, Kay Kyser and his Orchestra, Bob Crosby and his Orchestra, Chorus of the United Nations, Benny Carter and his Orchestra, Don Loper, Maxine Barrat, Sig Arno, Daisy Buford, Pierre Watkin, Connie Gilchrist, Bea Nigro, Edmund Mortimer, James Millican, Bryant Washburn, Jr., Peggy Remington, Carl Saxe, Ray Teal, William Tannen, Florence Turner, Linda Landi, Harry Strang, Eileen Coghlan, Eve Whitney, Aileen Haley, Betty Jaynes, Natalie Draper, Myron Healey, Cliff Danielson, James Warren, Don Taylor, Paul Speer, Marta Linden, John Conte. Mary Astor as Hyllary Jones, mother to Grayson character. 97. Meet Me In St. Louis. MGM 1944. Directed by Vincente Minelli. With Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Leon Ames, Tom Drake, June Lockhart, Harry Davenport, Hank Daniels, Marjorie Main, Joan Carroll, Hugh Marlowe, Robert Sully, Donald Curtis, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Darryl Hickman, Chill Wills, Mary Jo Ellis, Ken Wilson, Leonard Walker, Victor Kilian, John Phipps, Belle Mitchell, Major Sam Harris, Mayo Newhall, Sidney Barnes, Myron Tobias, Victor Cox, Kenneth Donner, Buddy Gorman, Joe Cobb. Mary Astor as Mrs. Anna Smith, wife of Ames and mother to Garland, O'Brien, Bremer, Daniels, and Carroll. 98. Blonde Fever. MGM 1944. Directed by Richard Whorf. With Philip Dorn, Mary Astor, Felix Bressart, Gloria Grahame, Marshall Thompson, Elisabeth Risdon, Curt Bois, Arthur Walsh. 99. Claudia and David. Fox 1946. Directed by Walter Lang. With Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Mary Astor, John Sutton, Gail Patrick, Rose Hobart, Harry Davenport, Florence Bates, Jerome Cowan, Else Janssen, Frank Tweddell, Anthony Sydes, Pierre Watkin, Henry Mowbray, Clara Blandick, Eric Wilton, Frank Darien, Walter Baldwin, Eva Novak, Jacqueline Warrington. Mary Astor as Elizabeth Van Doren, wealthy widow. 100. Desert Fury. Paramount 1947. Directed by Lewis Allen. With John Hodiak, Lizabeth Scott, Burt Lancaster, Mary Astor, Kristine Miller, Wendell Cory, William Harrigan, James Flavin, Jane Novak, Ana Camargo, Milton Kibbee, Ralph Peters, John Farrell, Harland Tucker, Ray Teal, Lew Harvey, Tom Schamp, Ed Randolph, Michael Lally. Mary Astor as Fritzi Haller, gambling casino owner, and mother of Scott character. 101. Cynthia. MGM 1947. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard. With Elizabeth Taylor, George Murphy, Mary Astor, S. Z. Sakall, Gene Lockhart, Spring Byington, James Lydon, Carol Brannan, Anna Q. Nilsson, Morris Ankrum, Kathleen Howard, Shirley Johns, Will Wright, Harlan Briggs, Minerva Urecal, Erville Alderson, William Tannen. Mary Astor as Louise Bishop, mother to Taylor character. 102. Fiesta. MGM 1947. Directed by Richard Thorpe. With Esther Williams, Akim Tamiroff, Ricardo Montalban, John Carroll, Mary Astor, Cyd Charisse, Fortunio Bonanova, Hugo Haas, Jean Van, Joey Preston, Frank Puglia, Los Bocheros, Alan Napier, Alex Montoya, Rosa Rey, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Nacho Galindo, Soledad Jimenez, Ben Weldon, Rudy Rama, Dewey Robinson, Jose Portugal, John Hamilton. Mary Astor as Senora Morales, mother to Williams and Montalban characters. 103. Cass Timberlane. MGM 1947. Directed by George Sidney. With Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Zachery Scott, Tom Drake, Mary Astor, Albert Dekker, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel, Mona Barrie, Josephine Hutchinson, Selena Royle, Richard Gaines, John Alexander, Cliff Clark, Almira Sessions, Cameron Mitchell, Howard Freeman, Milburn Stone, Griff Barnett, Guy Beach, Jessie Grayson, Tim Ryan, Bess Flowers, Lester Dorr, Roy Gordon, Albert Pollet, Mitchell Kowall, Anro Frey, Buz Buckley, Ed Oliver, Emmett Vogan, Walter Pidgeon, Pat Clark. Mary Astor as Queenie Havock, wife to Dekker character. 104. Act of Violence. MGM 1948. Directed by Fred Zimmermann. With Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter, Berry Kroeger, Nicholas Joy, Harry Antrim, Connie Gilchrist, Will Wright, Tom Hanlon, Philip Tead, Eddie Waglin, William Hill-Phillips, Garry Owen, Frederic Santley, Dick Elliott, Johnny Albright, Irene Seidner, Ralph Peters, Douglas Carter, Frank Scannell, Rex Downing, Mickey Martin, Rocco Lanzo, Dick Simmons, Don Haggerty, Paul Kruger, William Bailey, Philip Dunham, Wilbur Mack, Howard Mitchell, Walter Merrill, Ralph Montgomery, Cameron Grant, George Ovey, Jimmie Kelly, David Newell, Fred Datig, Jr., Margaret Bert, Mary Jo Ellis, Ann Lawrence, Robert Skelton, Andre Pola, Rudolph Anders, Florita Romero. Mary Astor as Pat, a prostitute. 105. Little Women. MGM 1949. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With June Allyson, Margaret O'Brien, Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Leigh, Rossano Brazzi, Mary Astor, Lucile Watson, Peter Lawford, C. Aubrey Smith, Elizabeth Patterson, Leon Ames, Harry Davenport, Richard Stapley, Connie Gilchrist, Ellen Corby, Will Wright, Olin Howlin, Isabel Randolph, Frank Darien. Mary Astor as Marmee, mother to Allyson, O'Brien, Taylor, and Leigh characters. 106. Any Number Can Play. MGM 1949. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With Clark Gable, Alexis Smith, Wendell Corey, Audrey Totter, Frank Morgan, Mary Astor, Lewis Stone, Barry Sullivan, Marjorie Rambeau, Edgar Buchanan, Leon Ames, Mickey Knox, Richard Rober, William Conrad, Darryl Hickman, Caleb Peterson, Dorothy Comingore, Art Baker. Mary Astor as Ada, a compulsive gambler. 107. A Kiss Before Dying. United Artists 1956. Directed by Gerd Oswald. With Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, Joanne Woodward, MA, George Macready, Robert Quarry, Howard Petrie, Bill Walker, Molly McCart, Marlene Felton. Mary Astor as Mrs. Corliss, mother to Wagner character. 108. The Power and The Prize. MGM 1956. Directed by Henry Koster. With Robert Taylor, Elisabeth Mueller, Burl Ives, Charles Coburn, Cedric Hardwicke, Mary Astor, Nicola Michaels, Cameron Prudhomme, Richard Erdman, Ben Wright, Jack Raine, Tom Browne Henry, Richard Deacon. Mary Astor as Mrs. George Salt, wife of tycoon Ives. 109. The Devil's Hairpin. Paramount 1957. Directed by Cornel Wilde. With Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Arthur Franz, MA, Paul Fix, Larry Pennell, Gerald Milton, Ross Bagdasarian, Morgan Jones, Jack Kosslyn, Louis Wilde, Jack Latham, Mabel Lillian Rea, Dorene Porter, Sue England, John Indrisano, Mike Mahoney, Les Clark, Henry Blair. Mary Astor as Mrs. Polly Jargin, mother to Wilde character. 110. This Happy Feeling. Universal 1958. Directed by Blake Edwards. With Debbie Reynolds, Curt Jurgens, John Saxon, Alexis Smith, Mary Astor, Estelle Winwood, Troy Donahue, Hayden Rorke, Gloria Holden, Alex Gerry, Joe Flynn, Alexander Campbell, Clem Fuller. Mary Astor as Mrs. Tremaine, mother of Saxon character. 111. Stranger in My Arms. Universal 1959. Directed by Helmut Dautner. With June Allyson, Jeff Chandler, Sandra Dee, Charles Coburn, Mary Astor, Peter Graves, Conrad Nagel, Hayden Rorke, Reita Green, Bartlett Robinson, Howard Wendell. Mary Astor as Mrs. Beasley, dominating mother-in-law of Allyson character. 112. Return to Peyton Place. Fox. 1961. Directed by Joe Ferrer. With Carol Lynley, Jeff Chandler, Eleanor Parker, Mary Astor, Robert Sterling, Luciana Paluzzi, Brett Halsey, Gunnar Hellstrom, Tuesday Weld, Kenneth MacDonald, Bob Crane, Bill Bradley, Tim Durant, Casey Adams, Pitt Herbert, Warren Parker, Arthur Peterson, Jennifer Howard, Joan Banks, Emerson Treacy, Wilton Graff, Laura McCann, Hari Rhodes, Leonard Stone, Alex Durand, Reedy Talton, Jack Carr, Tony Miller, Collette Lyons, Charles Seel, Max Mellinger, Carol Veazie, Helen Bennett. Mary Astor as Roberta Carter, possessive mother of Halsey character. 113. Youngblood Hawke. Warner Brothers 1964. Directed by Delmer Daves. With James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette, Genevieve Page, Eva Gabor, Mary Astor, Lee Bowman, Edward Andrews, Don Porter, Mildred Dunnock, Kent Smith, John Dehner, John Emery, Mark Miller, Hayden Rorke, Werner Klemperer, Berry Kroeger, Rusty Lane. Mary Astor as Irene Perry, an actress. 114. Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte. Fox 1964. Directed by Robert Aldrich. With Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Cecil Kellaway, Victor Buono, Mary Astor, Wesley Addy, William Campbell, Bruce Dern, Frank Ferguson, George Kennedy, Dave Willock, John Megna, Percy Helton, Kelly Flynn, Michael Petit, Alida Aldrich, Kelly Aldrich, William Aldrich, Ellen Corby, Marianne Stewart, Carol De Lay, Mary Henderson, Lillian Randolph, Geraldine West, Bill Walker, Idell James. Mary Astor as Jewel Mayhew, a murderess.