Mary Astor – MRQE

The Scarecrow

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Buster competes with another farmhand for the love of the farmer’s daughter.

Success

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The often-told film story of a drunken actor hitting the skids, making a comeback, and helping his grown daughter in the bargain.

Little Women

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Louisa May Alcott’s autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother – a very outspoken women for her time. The story is of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.

Cynthia

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.

Listen, Darling

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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.

Heart to Heart

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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.

Forever After

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A wounded captain recalls his youth, his time at college, and the woman he fell in love with.

The Man with Two Faces

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a theatrical producer she comes home incoherent and Vance is found dead in the vanished producer’s hotel suite

Dry Martini

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Upon hearing that his daughter Elizabeth, is coming from America to visit him in Paris, wealthy Willoughby Quimby, decides to give up dry martinis and women. However, Elizabeth seeks a wild time and ends up leaving France with her father’s drinking buddy, Freddie, and Willoughby goes back to his dry martinis.

The Runaway Bride

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, and a series of cops, robbers and kidnappers passes through. Desperate, Mary trusts the shifty chambermaid Clara who whisks her away to the mansion of wealthy George Blaine. There, Mary must pretend to be a lowly cook, but that seems better than sticking with the guy she was engaged to.