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Mary Astor: Films
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Mary Astor movies DVDs filmography available to buy at CDUniverse are listed below. Information on films includes: other actor and actress, star cast and crew information, reviews, director, photo of cover art, product pics and more.
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On loan-out to Fox Film Corporation, Astor starred in Dressed To Kill (1928), which received good reviews. That same year, she starred in the sophisticated comedy Dry Martini at Fox. She later said that, while working on the latter, she "absorbed and assumed something of the atmosphere and emotional climate of the picture." She said it offered "a new and exciting point of view; with its specious doctrine of self-indulgence, it rushed into the vacuum of my moral sense and captivated me completely." When her Warner Bros. contract ended, she signed a contract with Fox for $3,750 a week.
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Douglas Fairbanks romanced the lovely Mary Astor as Dolores in the 1925 film Don Q, Son of Zorro. Fairbanks played Don Cesar, who traveled to Spain to study, only to become embroiled in a murder. He ... played the father, the original Zorro, who arrived in the climatic scene in Spain to duel along side his son and clear his name.
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RKO "woman's film" stars Mary Astor as a super-efficient secretary who holds the real power in her office, while holding a torch for an unappreciative executive. Robert Ames co-stars. 82 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.
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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
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