The best Mary Astor’s comedy movies

Mary Astor

Mary Astor

03/05/1906- 25/09/1987
Today we present the best Mary Astor’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Mary Astor’s movies.
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Midnight

Midnight
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 24/03/1939
  • Character: Helene Flammarion
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.

Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St. Louis
7.5/10
In the year before the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York.

Thousands Cheer

Thousands Cheer
6.2/10
Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her father. Eddie's also plagued by fear of having an accident during his family's trapeze act in the army variety show, which also features a gallery of MGM stars.

The Palm Beach Story

The Palm Beach Story
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 28/08/1942
  • Character: The Princess Centimillia
Gerry and Tom Jeffers are finding married life hard. Tom is an inventor/ architect and there is little money for them to live on. They are about to be thrown out of their apartment when Gerry meets rich businessman being shown around as a prospective tenant. He gives Gerry $700 to start life afresh but Tom refuses to believe her story and they quarrel. Gerry decides the marriage is over and heads to Palm Beach for a quick divorce but Tom has plans to stop her.

The Scarecrow

The Scarecrow
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 07/11/1920
  • Character: Bit Part (uncredited)
Buster competes with another farmhand for the love of the farmer's daughter.

Paradise for Three

Paradise for Three
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 04/06/1938
  • Character: Mrs. Irene Mallebre
A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.

The Little Giant

The Little Giant
7/10
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 a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.

Turnabout

Turnabout
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/05/1940
  • Character: Marion Manning
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.

Two Arabian Knights

Two Arabian Knights
6.7/10
During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beautiful harem girl.

Ladies Love Brutes

Ladies Love Brutes
5.7/10
The movie stars George Bancroft, Mary Astor and Fredric March who are all excellent in their roles. The story begins as Joe Forziati (Bancroft), an Italian immigrant who has battled his way to success as a New York building contractor, decides to embark on a social career.

Breakdowns of 1941

Breakdowns of 1941
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/11/1941
  • Character: Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Blooper out-takes from Torrid Zone, Four Mothers, The Wagons Roll at Night, The Sea Wolf, No Time for Comedy, The Bride Came C.O.D., and Affectionately Yours, among other Warner Brother productions of 1940 and 1941.

Listen, Darling

Listen, Darling
6.5/10
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. They then get the idea to find Dottie a financially secure husband whom both she and Pinkie would like.

Easy to Love

Easy to Love
6.6/10
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. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.

Holiday

Holiday
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 03/07/1930
  • Character: Julia Seton
A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.

A Successful Calamity

A Successful Calamity
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/09/1932
  • Character: Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
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. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.

Heart to Heart

Heart to Heart
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/07/1928
  • Character: Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
Princess Delatorre, young and beautiful widow of an Italian scion of royalty, returns with her fortune to the small American town where she grew up as Ellen Gutherie. Arriving by train a few days earlier than she planned, Ellen is mistaken for Mrs. Arden, a seamstress of doubtful repute from a neighboring town. She carries on the deception for fun when her nearsighted Aunt Katie and others believe she is Mrs. Arden. Phil, her old sweetheart, recognizes her, however, and shows her his new invention, a corkscrew that turns itself--a failure because of prohibition. Ellen leaves, having heard how much store is set on her coming; she returns on the proper train, elaborately made up as Princess Delatorre, and the big reception takes place as planned. Then she and Phil return to Italy, where they expect the corkscrew to be a success.

Page Miss Glory

Page Miss Glory
6.6/10
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.

Claudia and David

Claudia and David
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 25/02/1946
  • Character: Elizabeth Van Doren
The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles as a young married couple living in a small Connecticut town.

Dressed to Kill

Dressed to Kill
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 17/03/1928
  • Character: Jeanne
A mob boss' gang gets suspicious about their boss' new girlfriend, a beautiful young girl who doesn't seem to be the type who'd hang out with gangsters. They're not quite certain if she's actually a police agent or just a "groupie".

This Happy Feeling

This Happy Feeling
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/06/1958
  • Character: Mrs. Tremaine
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 actor and there she spends the rest of the night. He makes no passes and next morning she discovers young man who drove her from party is a next door neighbor, before long the two men are competing for her affections.

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