List of the best Gertrude Astor movies: Through the Back Door(1921), The Strong Man(1926), Stage Struck(1925), The Wicked Darling(1919), Synthetic Sin(1929), The Cat and the Canary(1927), Beyond the Rocks(1922), Northern Frontier(1935), Kiki(1926), The Story of Seabiscuit(1949), All Over Town(1937), Uncle Tom's Cabin(1927) ... ...
Comedy, Drama
USA
1921
89 Minutes
Louise Reeves
Mary Pickford Jack Pickford Gertrude Astor Wilfred Lucas Helen Raymond C. Norman Hammond Eleanor Fair Adolphe Menjou Peaches Jackson Doreen Turner
When her mother remarries, a young Belgian girl is left behind with her nurse, but when Germany invades the country, she is sent to America to find her mother.
Comedy
USA
1926
75 Minutes
"Lily" of Broadway
Harry Langdon Priscilla Bonner Gertrude Astor William V. Mong Robert McKim Arthur Thalasso Brooks Benedict Douglas Haig
young man vaudevillian gold digger strong man pen pal soldier playful charming lighthearted battlefield europe american embassy theater small town music hall vaudeville romance friendship immigration impersonation
A meek Belgian soldier, fighting in World War I, receives a letter and a photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never met. After the war, he travels to America searching for her.
Comedy
USA
1925
70 Minutes
Gloria Swanson Lawrence Gray Gertrude Astor Marguerite Evans Ford Sterling Carrie Scott Emil Hoch Margery Whittington
waitress cook actress manager actor love interest playful lighthearted theater stage diner riverboat train performance obsession restaurant boats romance jealousy rivalry
A young woman dreams of becoming a great actress. When her boyfriend starts to flirt with an actual actress, she becomes jealous and decides to fight with her rival.
Drama
USA
1919
59 Minutes
Adele Hoyt
Priscilla Dean Wellington Playter Lon Chaney Spottiswoode Aitken Gertrude Astor Kalla Pasha
A slum girl is forced to steal for a living. After she swipes a rich society's matron's necklace, she hides out at the home of a man who turns out to be the socialite's former fiance.
Comedy
USA
1929
72 Minutes
Sheila Kelly
Colleen Moore Antonio Moreno Edythe Chapman Kathryn McGuire Gertrude Howard Gertrude Astor Ray Turner Montagu Love
Famed playwright Donald's latest work flopped because fiancée Betty is too unsophisticated to play the lead. It's time for the flower of Magnolia Gap, Virginia, to get to Gotham for some ... See full summary »
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1927
75 Minutes
Cecily
Laura La Plante Creighton Hale Forrest Stanley Tully Marshall Flora Finch Gertrude Astor Lucien Littlefield Arthur Edmund Carewe Martha Mattox George Siegmann
nephew niece lawyer guard doctor killer chilling tense creepy intricate mansion new york state haunted houses inheritance insanity greed murder rivalry escape 1920s
Relatives of an eccentric millionaire gather in his spooky mansion on the 20th anniversary of his death for the reading of his will.
Drama, Romance
USA
1922
81 Minutes
Morella Winmarleigh
Gloria Swanson Rudolph Valentino Edythe Chapman Alec B. Francis Robert Bolder Gertrude Astor Mabel Van Buren Helen Dunbar June Elvidge
nobleman aristocrat millionaire socialite father spinster melodramatic moving emotional swiss alps paris london arabia romance affair love triangle love letters forbidden love 1920s
A young woman marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman on her honeymoon.
Western
USA
1935
57 Minutes
Mae
Kermit Maynard Eleanor Hunt Russell Hopton J. Farrell MacDonald Roy Mason Gertrude Astor Ben Hendricks Jr. Walter Brennan Lloyd Ingram Nelson McDowell
A Mountie sets out to infiltrate and break up a gang of counterfeiters.
Comedy
1926
108 Minutes
Paulette Mascar
Norma Talmadge Ronald Colman William Orlamond Erwin Connelly Frankie Darro Mack Swain Gertrude Astor Marc McDermott George K. Arthur
A Parisian gamine wants to become a chorus girl to win the heart of the Follies manager even if she has to do unladylike stunts.
Drama
USA
1949
93 Minutes
Oscar's Wife (uncredited)
Shirley Temple Barry Fitzgerald Lon McCallister Rosemary DeCamp Donald MacBride Pierre Watkin William Forrest Sugarfoot Anderson Bill Cartledge Gertrude Astor Creighton Hale
horse young girl horse trainer jockey uncle love interest uplifting charming heartwarming inspiring kentucky horse track horse racing love romantic dilemma grief family rise to stardom rise quest
Horse trainer Shawn O'Hara and his lovely niece, Margaret, come to America to escape the memory of an accident involving Margaret's brother, Danny. Working with thoroughbreds in Kentucky, ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1937
62 Minutes
Ole Olsen Chic Johnson Mary Howard Harry Stockwell Franklin Pangborn James Finlayson Eddie Kane Stanley Fields D'Arcy Corrigan Lew Kelly John Sheehan
Two zanies try to stage a show in a theater that has a reputation for being being jinxed.
Drama
USA
1927
141 Minutes
James B. Lowe Eulalie Jensen Margarita Fischer Virginia Grey Mona Ray Aileen Manning Arthur Edmund Carewe George Siegmann Lassie Lou Ahern Jack Mower Vivien Oakland
slave fiancé son lawyer villain melodramatic intricate powerful kentucky plantation new orleans steamboat inn slavery mother/son relationship freedom american south love pursuit revenge
Slavery tears apart a black family in the South before the start of the Civil War.
Crime, Drama
USA
1952
91 Minutes
Robert Mitchum Jean Simmons Mona Freeman Herbert Marshall Leon Ames Barbara O'Neil Kenneth Tobey Raymond Greenleaf Griff Barnett Robert Gist Morgan Farley
beautiful woman love interest father stepmother sister young man disturbing intense beverly hills, calif. mansion murder manipulation cover-up double life obsessive love jealousy revenge quest transformation 1950s
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
Romance
USA
1941
115 Minutes
Charles Boyer Olivia de Havilland Paulette Goddard Victor Francen Walter Abel Curt Bois Rosemary DeCamp Eric Feldary Nestor Paiva Eva Puig Micheline Cheirel
gigolo teacher girlfriend melodramatic mexico los angeles border hollywood, calif. immigration love deception escape discovery 1940s
Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.
Comedy
USA
1961
94 Minutes
Dean Martin Shirley MacLaine Charles Ruggles Cliff Robertson Norma Crane Gale Gordon Jerome Cowan Jack Weston Ian Wolfe Mabel Albertson Mary Treen
Tony Ryder takes over his dead uncle's media empire while trying to keep quiet the mysterious circumstances of his death in a Palm Beach hotel room.
Comedy
USA
1948
94 Minutes
Laraine Day Kirk Douglas Keenan Wynn Helen Walker Rudy Vallee Florence Bates Alan Mowbray Grady Sutton Irene Ryan Gale Robbins Virginia Hewitt
novelist secretary publisher neighbor wife husband cheeky playful apartment beach house las vegas nightclub writing romantic dilemma publishing unlikely romance love transformation discovery 1940s
A romance novelist appoints a would-be writer as his secretary. Although she is initially dismayed by his work ethic and playboy attitude, they begin to fall in love.