Mary Astor Movies

Want to know the best Mary Astor movies?  How about the worst Mary Astor movies?  Curious about Mary Astor box office grosses or which Mary Astor movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Mary Astor movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Mary Astor (1906-1987) was an Oscar® winning American actress.    She made many movies but her performance  as Brigid O’Shaughnessy in 1941’s The Maltese Falcon is easily her most famous role.   Astor’s IMDb page shows 156 acting credits from 1921 to 1964.  This page will rank Mary Astor movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings.  To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences and get some award recognition.

1941’s The Maltese Falcon

Mary Astor Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

1941’s The Great Lie

Mary Astor Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Mary Astor movies by co-stars of her movies
  • Sort Mary Astor movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Mary Astor movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Mary Astor movies by how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort Mary Astor movies by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each movie received.
  • Sort Mary Astor movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
  • Blue link in Co-star column takes you to that star’s UMR movie page
1944’s Meet Me In St. Louis

The Best of IMDb Trivia on Mary Astor

1. Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke was born Quincy, Illnois in 1906.  Apparently Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke did not look good on marques so she changed her name to Mary Astor.

2.  Mary Astor’s first screen test was directed by Lillian Gish.

3. When talkies arrived, Mary Astor’s voice was initially considered too masculine and she was off the screen for a year.

4. Mary Astor was the sister-in-law of Howard Hawks and cousin-in-law of Carole Lombard.

5. Bette Davis was originally cast as Sandra Kovak, the hot-tempered but talented pianist, in The Great Lie (1941) but instead opted for the smaller role of Maggie Van Allen in a bid to let her good friend Astor save her film career. As a result, Astor won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar® for her performance.  Astor thanked Bette Davis in her acceptance speech.

Check out Mary Astor’s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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