TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Mary Astor.
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Birthdate: May 3, 1906
Death date: September 25, 1987
Mary Astor
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1920s
2.5302
41
1930s
3.5386
44
1940s
2.7814
18
1950s
1.1885
6
1960s
1.5085
3
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.7429
2.7429
Mary Astor Movie Rankings
1
3.5377Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed whilst tailing a man. ...more about Maltese Falcon
DVD from $12.89
(18 sellers)
2
3.2236This is a classic swashbuckler. Rudolph Rassendyll, Rudolf V's identical distant cousin, is asked to risk his life and impersonate the would-be king when his relative is kidnapped before his impending coronation. ...more about Prisoner of Zenda
DVD from $12.71
(13 sellers)
3
3.1197The well to do Smith family faces the possibility of moving when Mr. Smith's job is transferred from St. Louis to New York. However, his oldest daughter has fallen in love with the boy next door and it seems up rooting his family may be more difficult than he thought. ...more about Meet Me in St. Louis
DVD from $8.00
(13 sellers)
4
2.9825
Don Cesar de Vega, son of Zorro, is in Spain for his education. ...more about Don Q Son of Zorro
DVD from $6.99
(9 sellers)
5
2.9265
Charlotte Hollis, wealthy southern spinster, is shunned by her community for the grizzly murder some 40 years prior of her intended, John Mayhew. ...more about Hush... Hush
DVD from $4.76
(13 sellers)
6
2.9208
Gerry and Tom Jeffers are finding married life hard. Tom is an inventor/ architect and there is little money for them to live on. ...more about Palm Beach Story
DVD from $4.08
(15 sellers)
7
2.8644
War veteran Frank Enley seems to be a happily married small-town citizen until he realises Joe Parkson is in town. ...more about Act of Violence
- Not Available on DVD
8
2.7378
Showgirl Eve, stranded in Paris without a sou, befriends taxi driver Tibor Czerny, then gives him the slip to crash a party. There she meets Helene Flammarion and her gigolo Picot, who's attracted to Eve. ...more about Midnight
- Not Available on DVD
10
2.7259
To stop Pinkie's mother Dottie from marrying a man they know she does not love, Pinkie and her friend Buzz kidnap her in the family trailer to live a life on the open road without worries about how to make ends meet. ...more about Listen
- Not Available on DVD
11
2.6468
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-marshaled out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. ...more about Across the Pacific
DVD from $38.35
(11 sellers)
12
2.6255
Conditions are spartan on Dennis Carson's Indochina rubber plantation during a dusty dry monsoon. The latest boat upriver brings Carson an unwelcome guest: Vantine, a floozy from Saigon, hoping to evade the police by a stay upcountry. ...more about Red Dust
DVD from $25.55
(11 sellers)
13
2.6026
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. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. ...more about Don Juan
- Not Available on DVD
14
2.5844
Archer Coe has been found dead in his locked bedroom. The cops consider it suicide, but Philo believes otherwise. When the Coroner shows up, he finds that Archer had been hit with a blunt object, stabbed and shot - making suicide unlikely. ...more about Kennel Murder Case
DVD from $5.16
(6 sellers)
17
2.4930
A rich railroad tycoon, bored with his marriage (his wife has no time for him -- she's too busy giving parties and sailing on yachts) starts seeing a showgirl. ...more about Upperworld
- Not Available on DVD
19
2.4382
Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. ...more about Man with Two Faces
- Not Available on DVD
22
2.3812
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. ...more about Little Women
DVD from $13.30
(8 sellers)
23
2.3743
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. ...more about Little Giant
- Not Available on DVD
24
2.3382
Student Bud Corliss is wooing Dorother Kingship purely for her father's mining fortune. When he finds she is pregnant he realises she is likely to be disinherited, so cleverly stages her suicide. ...more about Kiss Before Dying
DVD from $5.99
(11 sellers)
25
2.2830
An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention. ...more about Trapped by Television
DVD from $5.16
(5 sellers)
26
2.1552
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. ...more about Thousands Cheer
- Not Available on DVD
28
2.0410
Sailor Terangi is unjustly imprisoned for killing a man in a fight. Unfortunately, the governor of the island has no interest in the concerns of the natives and refuses a pardon. ...more about Hurricane
- Not Available on DVD
29
2.0273
Sandra and Pete elope but their marriage is invalid since she's not yet divorced. Sandra is, however, pregnant by Pete. Pete marries his former fiancée Maggie, then flies to South America where his plane crashes. ...more about Great Lie
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Not Available on DVD
30
1.9862
The true story of the famous Mormon leader, Brigham Young and his battle to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. ...more about Brigham Young
DVD from $4.11
(11 sellers)
32
1.8538
Gambling-house owner finds himself estranged from his wife and son. ...more about Any Number Can Play
- Not Available on DVD
33
1.7428
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. ...more about This Happy Feeling
- Not Available on DVD
34
1.6542
The residents of Peyton Place, Mass., are not happy when its most famous resident, Alison Mackenzie, writes a "shocking" novel detailing the sinful secrets of the town. ...more about Return to Peyton Place
DVD from $4.25
(10 sellers)
37
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. ...more about Behind Office Doors
DVD from $3.48
(7 sellers)
39
Charles Abbott is a wealthy adventurer in Cuba of the 1850s. He is in love with Narcissa but goes after La Clavel to obtain information on the Spanish. He becomes implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother of Narcissa. ...more about Bright Shawl
- Not Available on DVD
40
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. ...more about Case of the Howling Dog
- Not Available on DVD
41
Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is stillborn and she turns more and more to attorney friend of of Cass' Brad Criley. ...more about Cass Timberlane
- Not Available on DVD
42
Follow-up to hit film Claudia (1943) finds title characters (Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young) dealing with the ups and downs of marriage and parenthood in their rural Connecticut town. ...more about Claudia and David
- Not Available on DVD
45
Fritzi Haller is a powerful casino owner in Chuckawalla, Nevada. Her daughter Paula (having quit school) returns at the same time as racketeer Eddie Bendix, who left under suspicion of murdering his wife. ...more about Desert Fury
- Not Available on DVD
46
Cocky car racer Nick Jargin has retired since he nearly caused the death of his brother at a hairpin bend on a circuit. He now holds a trendy café who keeps him busy full time until one day, Tony Boari, a new champion racer, challenges him. ...more about Devil's Hairpin
- Not Available on DVD
50
Carol (Genevieve Tobin) feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John (Adolphe Menjou), has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope (William B. ...more about Easy to Love
- Not Available on DVD
59
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. ...more about Hollywood
- Not Available on DVD
67
Don Francisco Delfina, a nobleman of Southern California in 1848, disguises himself as El Puma and leads a revolt against the tyrannical land agent and politician Peter Harkness. ...more about Lash
- Not Available on DVD
70
Hoping to get even with gambler/bookie Johnny Silk, racetrack owners and partners Dorval and Farley convince down-and-out Martha Preston to pose as a rich, single French countess, whom Silk falls in love with and asks to marry. ...more about Men of Chance
- Not Available on DVD
71
Crotchety hospital administrator Peter Melady, self-proclaimed developer of a new wonder anaesthetic, is about to undergo a delicate operation to be performed by the glib Dr. Leo Harrigan, Melady's longtime mutual adversary. ...more about Murder of Dr. Harrigan
- Not Available on DVD
85
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 son who wants to be king himself and is plotting to take advantage of the situation. ...more about Royal Bed
DVD from $5.16
(5 sellers)
93
Sexist tale in which Mary Astor is blamed for husband Robert Ames' philandering because she takes a trip without him. To make him jealous, she turns her attentions to another man (John Haliday). ...more about Smart Woman
- Not Available on DVD
95
Air Force test pilot Pike Yarnell reluctantly attends the memorial service for long-dead Donald Beasley, his navigator during the Korean War; recalling, in flashbacks, their painful days together on a life raft. ...more about Stranger in My Arms
- Not Available on DVD
100
A young author meets and marries the woman who bought the first copy of his new book. They live happily with their son, but some time later, as the husband is moving into the family's new home, a woman in the neighborhood tries to seduce him. ...more about Those We Love
- Not Available on DVD
103
An American soldier, W. Dangerfield Phelps and his detested sergeant, company top kick Peter McGaffney, are captured by the Germans while engaged in a bitter fist fight inside a shell-hole on the Western front. ...more about Two Arabian Knights
- Not Available on DVD
108
Cynthia is married to Steve and is a selfish hard woman. She decides where they will live, who they will see and even gets rid of Dora, the nanny who raised Steve and is now raising their daughter Ellen. ...more about Woman Against Woman
- Not Available on DVD
109
Dee Renaud is a girl playing the "Devil" in an amusement concession at a beach resort. Slick Glicks, the barker, promises the yokels that if they're able to catch the "Lady From Hell," she will reward them with a kiss. ...more about Woman from Hell
- Not Available on DVD
112
Youngblood Hawke is a truck driver from Kentucky who comes to New York City to become a hot-shot writer. Almost immediately, he meets editor Jeanne Green. ...more about Youngblood Hawke
- Not Available on DVD
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