Mary Astor is a superb actress, Astor is one of the finest actresses who've ever graced the screen, She's particularly radiant in this picture, Lilyan Tashman is always charming. This was a splendid story with the ending I had hoped for.
My grandmothers favourite actress. My grandmother died in 1944. I never got to meet her, I was born in 1960. For some reason Mary Astor has a special place in my heart because of my grandmother that I never got to meet. I loved her in Dodsworth, great movie.
Parents can hurt their children by their indiscretions . Especially when there’s perfect harmony, sudden collapse of trust, also destroys their self worth along w/ the children’s identity.
Happened to me & I’d be lying if I said I got over it. But I do forgive my mother. She can’t help she was a hot little number from a small village. We’re human, our parents make mistakes too.
00:38 Tiffany Studios, sometimes known as Tiffany-Stahl, was set up by actress/producer Mae Murray and her director John Stahl. The year this film was made, 1932, was Tiffany's last operating year before it went under.
This is a really good drama starring Mary Astor 💕 Kenneth MacKenna ⭐️ and Lilyan Tashman 💕. Tommy Conlon as the son is great along with Hale Hamilton as Mary’s loyal friend. I was fortunate to find this one while searching for Lilyan Tashman films. Thank You for this one! 😉
If only there were half the concern shown in this film toward the kids of couples that argue or want to separate or divorce today.... we would have a different world already today.
Lilyan Tashman died just 2 years after this film at the young age of 37. She started out as a young vaudevillian teen performer & a star at 17, she worked on the Broadway stage in the Ziegfeld follies for 2-3 seasons. Her happy last marriage was to actor Edmund Lowe who survived her. I only recently found Ms Tashmans films on RUclips & found her really an interesting actress.
Wow that's young and such a great scarlet woman here but not 100% hateable...I believed her when her face is in awe of them standing up to her bully husband who cheated on her dishing it out but couldn't take it. Her mistake was stalking just him and should've went on cruises to Europe or has a dance instructor like they did in so.manu films hehe. 37 way to young thanks for sharing.
Lilyan Tashman, who played Valerie. A really fine actress in her day. Unfortunately, she died at the age of 37 or she likely would have had many more fine movie performances.
Excellent movie dealing with forgiveness, I hope some watching this in a similar predicament will learn something from it. Wonderful performances from Mary Astor and her colleagues.
"Remember Freddy, a clever lie is better than a clumsy explanation." I adore Mary Astor, I got to meet her twice and still have her autographs I got. Kenneth MacKenna was marvelous and I wish he worked in films more.
Mary Astor makes a stop at World Wide Pictures, a Poverty Row studio, and delivers her usual fine performance. A veteran of both silent and sound, and both small productions like this one and major studio films like "The Maltese Falcon" at Warners. A true professional.
I knew that blond was trouble the minute I saw her! Men can be so stupid sometimes! It was a sweet movie though. Mary Astor was so beautiful and such an awesome actress. I would watch her in anything! Thanks so much. 🌈🌈🌈
Too bad Mary Astor didn't wanted to become a major star, yes, it was her decision, and she always played a second violin. This movie is rare exception. Beautiful and talented.
And just think - none of this would happen today. Thanks to sites like Tinder, “romance” or flirting are something of the past. Young women today cannot remotely relate to a story like this. This is sad to me :(
Wow, Astor's expressions when he lied to her starting @42:39 was incredible acting. One could see and feel her disappointment that she knew the man she loved and trusted was lying. All actresses and wannabe actress should watch and study her movies. My only problem with this film was the constant music. To me it was distracting during dialog between the actors. I love classic movies, but this is the first I've seen whereas music was constant throughout and it annoyed me. Perhaps because Mary didn't need background music. The role she played didn't need to be enhanced!
Our prents always taught us that if a situatiin arose such as those of abuse, verbal insults or child neglect on behalf of a parent, to simply walk away until the situation(s) subside. To this day, their grandchildren have reaped the benefits of their advice and are being brought up to be oerfect ladies and gentlemen! In fact, my grandneice who us 10 yrs. old, this oast Christmas gifted her 27 aunts and uncles with s beautiful presentatiin of embroided, framed saying of dane ehich niw hangs in everyone of her relatives' dining room wall!
Well this film must have affected me as I was upset at the husband for cheating sans consequences and the wife for staying because of the child. It was realistic n brought forth emotions which rates this a 10.
That blonde was after him hook line and caught him. And she is married as well. Her husband is probably a wonderful husband. Tramp 😄 May should have confronted Freddie, more by telling him she arrived to the house and saw and heard that woman, if she did, he wouldn't have went on with that woman. Stupid ! Freddie better be thankful that she forgave him. Great movie. I love Mary Astor all of her movies were awesome. She was a wonderful actress. She started her career in the silent era of movies. I miss wonderful actresses like Mary
That was a wonderful film everyone was great in it especially Hattie McDaniel. Bette and Mary were very close friends, I’m sure you already know that 😉
What a great movie, I thought I'd seen all pf Mary Astor's films. If you read her life story it's heart breaking like this film without the happy ending. Torn apart in court and so much scandal in custody fight over her daughter I believe. "In 1936, Astor's career was nearly destroyed by scandal. She had an affair with playwright George S. Kaufman and was branded an adulterous wife by her former husband during a custody fight over their daughter. But you have to dig deeper because she kept a journal of her love affairs and yikes!!! Can you imagine it being blasted around the world. She had such depth. She lived til 1984 so good for her, so many things can you imagine? Thanks @PizzaFlix for a Supreme pre-code slice 🍕
A book came out in 2018 named The Purple Diary, it was about her scandalous affair. Her husband was cheating too, but she faced the scandal! In her youth, she was involved with John Barrymore.
Astor could do drama and Comedy. Check her out in the Claudette Colbert film, iPalm Beach Story, hilarious. Also in another Claudette Colbert film, Midnight.
Maybe because of "Meet Me In St.Louis" I've always felt Astor didn't have the seductress sex appeal for Maltese Falcon. Now had Lilyan Tashman not died young... That's one Mrs.O'Shaughnessy Sam Spade would have taken the fall for!
@@Caocao8888 I so agree! I've watched a few of these oldies, and I'm afraid they're just too dated for me. The men, especially, are such cliches and some of the acting wooden, to say the least.
The first part of the movie was so annoying with all of the confetti 🎉 flying around and the noise and hoopla that I nearly quit watching it. 😬😬😬🥴🥴🥴😵💫😵💫😵💫😖😖😖
I pray for the floodgates of Heaven to be open over your life, family, love ones 🍿 and viewers in the Name of Jesus Christ 👑 I Appreciate you🍿20 Stars 🤩 Have a grand 🌉 forgiveness is a powerful thing for you and them.if you forgive God will for give you 👑 Amen
I really was expecting to hear a gun shot when they went to find dad. He went and blew his head off for being a fool. But, these are the golden age where everything is solved in a minute and people fall in love forever.
Always somebody cheating in these pre-code movies. I've watched quite a few in the last several days. Having a mistress was treated as though it's the norm. This one was a little better, but I know that my dad or his father wouldn't entertain the likes of "Valerie" for 2 seconds. No "one drink and then you go." She'd be kicked out right then and there - wouldn't get past the front door.
A bit slow and predictable. Thank goodness for the female performances. An unsympathetic role for Tashman but she handles it with her usual style. In movies with more glamourous actresses, like Lilyan & Jean Harlow, makes Astor seem matronly. I begin to understand why Hollywood relegated such a fine actress down to second tier.
Puh-leez, Lilyan. What a hack. Myrna Loy masterfully portrays the seductrous in "Animal Kingdom," a PF pre-code gem. And, Lilyan, Jodhpur boots without socks?
Mary Astor is a superb actress, Astor is one of the finest actresses who've ever graced the screen, She's particularly radiant in this picture, Lilyan Tashman is always charming. This was a splendid story with the ending I had hoped for.
Mary Astor is inexplicably overlooked and underrated. She was indeed a superb actress.
My grandmothers favourite actress. My grandmother died in 1944. I never got to meet her, I was born in 1960. For some reason Mary Astor has a special place in my heart because of my grandmother that I never got to meet. I loved her in Dodsworth, great movie.
Hi Spring, I'm with you and Grandma. Theres something special about Mary Astor.
Great to have that connection.
Dodsworth is one of my favorites!
Dodsworth was indeed a great story and Mary Astor's role was perfect!
I met Mary Astor twice and got her autograph. She was so sweet to me.
ive always enjoyed Mary Astor, thanks for airing this adorable old film 🎥🎥🎥👍
Mary Astor has been a favorite of mine for years. I especially loved her performance in the 1936 film "Dodsworth"
Oh yes one of my favorites.
I agree! One of her best films. I was so happy when Walter Huston came back for her.
@@midwestslotdiva One of the finest endings to any film!
What I liked about her she could play someone "unlikable" with class.
@@midwestslotdiva Walter Huston my favorite actor!
Parents can hurt their children by their indiscretions . Especially when there’s perfect harmony, sudden collapse of trust, also destroys their self worth along w/ the children’s identity.
Happened to me & I’d be lying if I said I got over it. But I do forgive my mother. She can’t help she was a hot little number from a small village.
We’re human, our parents make mistakes too.
Thanks for posting I love these old films. Mary Astor is amazing.
Mary Astor was amazing in this film, they were all good.
Mary Astor gives a superb performance - one of the greats.
Very nice. Mary Astor had a very natural acting style, always believable.
She and Jean Harlow played opposite Clark Gable in 'Red Dust' in the roles that Ava Gardner and Grace Kelley had in the remake 'Mogambo'.
What an excellent movie! Great acting, and a terrific ending! Their son was adorable!❤
00:38 Tiffany Studios, sometimes known as Tiffany-Stahl, was set up by actress/producer Mae Murray and her director John Stahl. The year this film was made, 1932, was Tiffany's last operating year before it went under.
This is a really good drama starring Mary Astor 💕 Kenneth MacKenna ⭐️ and Lilyan Tashman 💕. Tommy Conlon as the son is great along with Hale Hamilton as Mary’s loyal friend. I was fortunate to find this one while searching for Lilyan Tashman films. Thank You for this one! 😉
Always like Mary Astor but this was a revelation - she was a really good actor !!
A lovely story...thanks for the upload
Great movie on such a time-old tale. Thanks for the upload!
If only there were half the concern shown in this film toward the kids of couples that argue or want to separate or divorce today.... we would have a different world already today.
Great feeling of nostalgia for an era that wasn’t even mine! Like pre life.
I completely agree, I feel the same way , x
Lilyan Tashman died just 2 years after this film at the young age of 37.
She started out as a young vaudevillian teen performer & a star at 17, she worked on the Broadway stage in the Ziegfeld follies for 2-3 seasons. Her happy last marriage was to actor Edmund Lowe who survived her.
I only recently found Ms Tashmans films on RUclips & found her really an interesting actress.
Wow that's young and such a great scarlet woman here but not 100% hateable...I believed her when her face is in awe of them standing up to her bully husband who cheated on her dishing it out but couldn't take it. Her mistake was stalking just him and should've went on cruises to Europe or has a dance instructor like they did in so.manu films hehe. 37 way to young thanks for sharing.
Such a radiant smile of Ricky at the end 😂
Nice of you not to sell everything like RUclips or put 50 commercials in them. Some of us are poor.
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@@PizzaFLIX It is. Thank you very much.
Lilyan Tashman, who played Valerie. A really fine actress in her day. Unfortunately, she died at the age of 37 or she likely would have had many more fine movie performances.
This was such a heartwarming movie - I love this channel!
When fidelity meant something, ancient history.
It still means something especially to God.
The whole world isn't devoid of ethics and loyalty...there are many who take those vows seriously. Not as many as back in the day though.
Now people just tattoo so many lover's names on their bodies they look like quilts.
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Excellent movie dealing with forgiveness, I hope some watching this in a similar predicament will learn something from it. Wonderful performances from Mary Astor and her colleagues.
"Remember Freddy, a clever lie is better than a clumsy explanation." I adore Mary Astor, I got to meet her twice and still have her autographs I got. Kenneth MacKenna was marvelous and I wish he worked in films more.
My fifth grade teacher always looked like Mary Astor.....she dressed beautifully and I hero worshipped her! So lovely to see Ms Astor acting.....
Mary Astor makes a stop at World Wide Pictures, a Poverty Row studio, and delivers her usual fine performance. A veteran of both silent and sound, and both small productions like this one and major studio films like "The Maltese Falcon" at Warners. A true professional.
Another great happy ending movie. Worth the watch.
I don't know about the ending, still, the beginning was so happy!
I knew that blond was trouble the minute I saw her! Men can be so stupid sometimes! It was a sweet movie though. Mary Astor was so beautiful and such an awesome actress. I would watch her in anything! Thanks so much. 🌈🌈🌈
Love it!I’m watching good movies that I’ve never seen before‼️
poor kid, I remember that feeling so well, 60 years ago
Excellent film. Thank you.
Mary Astor did actually play piano and played it in a few films.
They raised a nice boy❤️🩹
Too bad Mary Astor didn't wanted to become a major star, yes, it was her decision, and she always played a second violin. This movie is rare exception. Beautiful and talented.
Mary was the Kim K of Hollywood you😅
Great movie great actors
The cast is great but this B- film company???
Mary Astor forever
And just think - none of this would happen today. Thanks to sites like Tinder, “romance” or flirting are something of the past. Young women today cannot remotely relate to a story like this. This is sad to me :(
Thank you Pizza Flix ! Fr. Canada
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Wow, Astor's expressions when he lied to her starting @42:39 was incredible acting. One could see and feel her disappointment that she knew the man she loved and trusted was lying. All actresses and wannabe actress should watch and study her movies. My only problem with this film was the constant music. To me it was distracting during dialog between the actors. I love classic movies, but this is the first I've seen whereas music was constant throughout and it annoyed me. Perhaps because Mary didn't need background music. The role she played didn't need to be enhanced!
The wonderful Mary Astor...........
Well done!
thank you wonderful film.
Great movie! 💛
"My public."
I like the sound of that. Anyways Mary Astor is the talented actress everyone hope to be. Thx.
right, the begining of the film was pure joy!
What an amazing movie 🍿 🎥
Good Actress, enjoyable movie - thank you!
Our prents always taught us that if a situatiin arose such as those of abuse, verbal insults or
child neglect on behalf of a
parent, to simply walk away until the situation(s)
subside.
To this day, their grandchildren have reaped the benefits of their advice and are being brought up to be oerfect ladies and gentlemen!
In fact, my grandneice who us 10 yrs. old, this oast Christmas gifted her 27 aunts and uncles with s beautiful presentatiin of embroided, framed saying of dane ehich niw hangs in everyone of her relatives' dining room wall!
Well this film must have affected me as I was upset at the husband for cheating sans consequences and the wife for staying because of the child. It was realistic n brought forth emotions which rates this a 10.
Oh what a wicked web we weave, when we practice to deceive! !
Watch out for the siren. What a wonderful movie.
That was a good one.
That blonde was after him hook line and caught him. And she is married as well. Her husband is probably a wonderful husband. Tramp 😄 May should have confronted Freddie, more by telling him she arrived to the house and saw and heard that woman, if she did, he wouldn't have went on with that woman. Stupid ! Freddie better be thankful that she forgave him. Great movie. I love Mary Astor all of her movies were awesome. She was a wonderful actress. She started her career in the silent era of movies. I miss wonderful actresses like Mary
You do realize movies have plots?
Maybe you want to request a re-write?
@@jungleno. I think that she was summarizin some of the lessons to be learned by the mistakins of the characters.
There were and are some women that have broken up so many good marriages.
so he shouldn't have any trouble getting ideas for his next novel now
Loved Astor in "The Great Lie" with Bette Davis.
That was a wonderful film everyone was great in it especially Hattie McDaniel. Bette and Mary were very close friends, I’m sure you already know that 😉
A good drama.
That wooly-headed !I never wanted to kick someones ... sooo much in my movie watching life.
What a great movie, I thought I'd seen all pf Mary Astor's films. If you read her life story it's heart breaking like this film without the happy ending. Torn apart in court and so much scandal in custody fight over her daughter I believe. "In 1936, Astor's career was nearly destroyed by scandal. She had an affair with playwright George S. Kaufman and was branded an adulterous wife by her former husband during a custody fight over their daughter. But you have to dig deeper because she kept a journal of her love affairs and yikes!!! Can you imagine it being blasted around the world. She had such depth. She lived til 1984 so good for her, so many things can you imagine? Thanks @PizzaFlix for a Supreme pre-code slice 🍕
@DuchessBirdie
No worse than the lovely Loretta Young falling for leacherous Gable, giving up her daughter and whatever else he aided in causing.😢😢
A book came out in 2018 named The Purple Diary, it was about her scandalous affair. Her husband was cheating too, but she faced the scandal! In her youth, she was involved with John Barrymore.
Freddie was contrite, Mrs. Parker threw herself at him when he was at his lowest point. May did the right thing.
Grand Actress Mary Astor.!!
A perfect little movie
Wow you got me crying now.
I find the sound Terrible . Can you fix it? gettting to the point I want to chose a different channel
then do so, nobody's holding you back. I thoroughly enjoyed the film. Gave it a thumbs up too.....
Excuse me ma'am, but those are some awfully big globes you have.
(LOL!) I caught that too, Les which was why the movie makers painted a shoulder strap for the model; censers are an astute bunch.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@catholiccrusader5328 was this logo for the film company done on purpose? 2nd film I saw today with those huge globs.
I never noticed! Now excuse me while I continue staring..........................
Astor could do drama and Comedy. Check her out in the Claudette Colbert film, iPalm Beach Story, hilarious. Also in another Claudette Colbert film, Midnight.
Thank you !
Yes, I have seen both of those, she was great in comedies, but she could also play a great villainess as in The Maltese Falcon and The Great Lie.
@@ladywisewolf3942 she actually played the piano in The Great Lie.
I saw The Maltese Falcon, I found it boring. I like this film better.
الله يرحم من مات منهم 💙❤💜
It never fails. Husband screwing up. Wife ends forgiving him for her son’s sake.
Mary Astor is a fresh and lovely 26 years old here. From here to Maltese Falcon, about 9 years.
Maybe because of "Meet Me In St.Louis" I've always felt Astor didn't have the seductress sex appeal for Maltese Falcon. Now had Lilyan Tashman not died young... That's one Mrs.O'Shaughnessy Sam Spade would have taken the fall for!
@@eoinwhiteside9832 I think I know what you mean, but I've seen enough Mary Astor pictures to thoroughly enjoy anything she has acted in.
First he refuses her advances then next minute he is kissing her?
Jeanette Caldwell - The whole plot is absurd...
@@Caocao8888 I so agree! I've watched a few of these oldies, and I'm afraid they're just too dated for me. The men, especially, are such cliches and some of the acting wooden, to say the least.
The first part of the movie was so annoying with all of the confetti 🎉 flying around and the noise and hoopla that I nearly quit watching it. 😬😬😬🥴🥴🥴😵💫😵💫😵💫😖😖😖
I pray for the floodgates of Heaven to be open over your life, family, love ones 🍿 and viewers in the Name of Jesus Christ 👑 I Appreciate you🍿20 Stars 🤩 Have a grand 🌉 forgiveness is a powerful thing for you and them.if you forgive God will for give you 👑 Amen
History and literature. A bit like Fitzgerald.
“That’s up to her!” Ha! That’s rich
Who knew the Missed Connections section of the classifieds and the phrase “giving them the riot act” were both around as far back as the 30s.
The film music gets on the nerve...lousy loud and inappropriate....
This one is about as bad as Back Street only without a child involved. Not bad bad, sad bad.
Forgiveness, unless one 1⃣ partner is unwilling or unable to forgive.You
I really was expecting to hear a gun shot when they went to find dad. He went and blew his head off for being a fool. But, these are the golden age where everything is solved in a minute and people fall in love forever.
Just remember an unforgiving posture that is just imprison.
Was MA the girl who was married to Hearst?
that was Marion Davies
Marion Davies was never married to Hearst; he was a married man and Marion Davies was his mistress for years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst#Personal_life
@@PizzaFLIX Marion Davis was not married to Heast, she was his long time Mistress.
Hearst was a married man messing around with Marion Davies. She broke it off years later though
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MA was very pretty little thing!
Yep she was a darling girl but when she made 'The Maltese Falcon' she was rough! She beat up on Peter Lorre. (LOL!)
Guy thinks he’s Knut Hamsun
Pay your rent, bum
Lilyan Tashman, the bad woman in this movie, was ill fated in real life. She had not much time left in this world after this movie was released.
Painful. Home wrecker . . . Satisfying ending.
16:21
Always somebody cheating in these pre-code movies. I've watched quite a few in the last several days. Having a mistress was treated as though it's the norm. This one was a little better, but I know that my dad or his father wouldn't entertain the likes of "Valerie" for 2 seconds. No "one drink and then you go." She'd be kicked out right then and there - wouldn't get past the front door.
A bit slow and predictable. Thank goodness for the female performances. An unsympathetic role for Tashman but she handles it with her usual style. In movies with more glamourous actresses, like Lilyan & Jean Harlow, makes Astor seem matronly. I begin to understand why Hollywood relegated such a fine actress down to second tier.
Jackie Coopers mom told Jackie "Mary was a vixen" back when her diary was discovered......
I usually like these pre-code movies, but this one does not work.
Lilyan Tashman...let's be gay!
Takes more than a few miles to break up a family 25.00
You mean we’re not going to be a family anymore 1:08:28
Puh-leez, Lilyan. What a hack. Myrna Loy masterfully portrays the seductrous in "Animal Kingdom," a PF pre-code gem. And, Lilyan, Jodhpur boots without socks?
She was wearing hosiery.
Well there's no way to sell you on Tashman as a great actress if you were only interested in her footwear.
_Remember, a clever lie is better than a clumsy explanation._
Thou shalt not lie.
That's a lot to put on the son...help me decide.
The film music gets on the nerve...lousy loud and inappropriate....