Behind Office Doors (1931) MARY ASTOR
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ม.ค. 2025
- Stars: Mary Astor, Robert Ames, Ricardo Cortez
Director: Melville Brown
A pretty secretary, who is the unheralded power behind a successful executive, is taken for granted until his rival tries to take her away from him.
Mary Astor, one of the great underrated and largely forgotten actresses of yesteryear. So likeible, Such understated performances, so authentic in her roles. So surprised to find she'd had multiple divorces and a sketchy personal life.
Thank you sharing this very good movie. Its been decades since I saw Marie Dressler in Tug Boat Annie in the late 50s. I was elementary school-aged. In this film, I appreciated her acting ability in the final scene when her facial expression changed from being anxious for her daughter to a look of peace and relief knowing the daughter is married and that the newlyweds have safely sailed away from the harbor.
I’m 60 years old, Mary Astor was my grandmother’s favorite actress. Thank you for sharing this with us!
Came out 1932? This movie is nearly 150 year's old.
@@billyrichards8834 not sure what you comment means. My grandmother was 35 when this movie came out. She loved Mary Astor.
The movie itself was so, so, so, so very good. And as for Mary Astor - I thought I liked her before in the movies I'd seen her in over the years - but her performance (and good looks) in this movie took my liking and admiration of her to another level. This is a movie you recommend to your friends to see who have good taste in movies.
Wow! Surprise! Loved the dialog, the characters. Mary Astor is tops in this -- what a comedienne! The whole cast is a class act. First rate movie. This one goes right on my list. Thank you, PizzaFlix.
...and how!
Thanks for the upload of this movie. Mary Astor is good actress.
Thanks for another great pre-code classic!!!
Thanks for these oldies Mary Astor a great actresses keep showing audience watches and enjoys them 😀🧡
Pizza Flix, what a fun movie. Thanks so much for posting it.
I love these classics-the dialogue is soooo funny:
Mary: what’s the matter with my dress
Duneen: looks like you poured yourself into it
and forgot to say “when”😂😂😂😂🤭Gr8 classic thank you for sharing ❤️❣️
I can't believe this movie is nearly 150 year's old. Even they're great grandkids would be long past.
@@billyrichards8834It's not even 100 yet, and these people's great grandchildren have a long life ahead of them still.
Thanks for another great old film!
Great movie! My favourite part was in the last few minutes when Jim leans back in his office chair and he checks out Mary's new look while Mary's showing off her legs and shoes.
🎉❤Great show,
Thank you ❤🎉
Mary Astor! nuff said! 🎥❤️❤️❤️❤️
Pizzaflix this is the best movie ever...Mary Astor has always been a favourite but this was a gem...she shone brilliantly...thank you SO much
Awesome movie and great acting. (Loved the part where she made sure that her future boss, whom she secretly has a crush on, would wear the 'right' shirt to the important meeting.) - This is another one of those movies from that period about an office which I find very entertaining and interesting. Change a few details, e.g. outfits and language, and the storyline could very well be from the 2020s...
Hard to believe this movie is nearly 150 year's old. WOW! Where's Wyatt Earp ... and the 'Doc'?
i knew the entire plot after the 1st 10 minutes, but I could watch Mary Astor read a phone book.
Steve Weinstein
Yes, she is wonderful💞
As could I: she was always super in any role
@@scotnick59 She could balance sexy, funny and classy and put it into her whatever role she was playing. .
Mary Astor was the only person in early films who said colored Astor and actress should act as more than maids and butlers 2:54
Enjoyed this. Many thanks, PizzaFlix.
My favourite all-time youtube channel!😍
Thanks for posting PF love Mary Astor.
Mary Astor, Mary Astor, Mary Astor, Mary Astor, Mary Astor! + 4 *'s for everybody and everything else: Many thanks for sharing this "new gem on me".
Appreciate the movie 🎥 it is a pure delight 😍 12 stars🌟thank you 😂🤣 sweet treasure 💞 of movie 🍿great 🕊️ peace and love be on your family 💖 love one's and all whom love pizza 🍕 flixs
MARY MARRID THE WRONG MAN: BUT MARY ASTOR PLAYED HER BEAUTIFULLY.
SORRY, I MISTYPED MARRIED.
I adore Mary Astor.
Love how pre code shows women as smart and capable!
Is "pre-code" code for documentary?
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@@adamnoman4658It’s before the Hayes morality code was enforced. It’s why these movies are more realistic.
@@lightningbug276 I know what the Hayes code was.
My irony was apparently lost on you, however.
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What a fun movie! I loved it! Thanks! 🌈🌈🌈
Good movie great actor and actresses. 😊😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
The protagonist has the funniest doorbell.
Carey Wilson’s script provides Mary Astor one of the most interesting roles of her career. Her scenes of disappointment are terrific. Sadly, Robert Ames’ lack of charisma diminishes the appeal of the story. Thanks for sharing!!
Yes! I couldn’t figure out why she likes him. Lol
Ames is a dud as an actor, both here and in the earlier pairing with Astor in "Holiday." It is interesting that in both films, he plays a self-centered character who rejects the attentions of Astor's scheming women: here reversed only off-screen at the very end, and in "Holiday," again in the final minutes, permanently.
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@@lightningbug276it's just a film
At first, CORTEZ USED TO MAKE MY SKIN CRAWL. BUT LATELY I FIND HIM A GOOD ACTOR and he can really talk with his eyes
Good Classic Movie
love these movies
very enjoyable
19:40 "no, it isn't hashish" At 20:41 what does he mean by "give me the lowdown"? 21:33 $15 in then money is about $250 in 2018 money.
it's another way of saying "explain" or "give me the details."
@ Mritalicsmine : Booze may have been banned -- although according to the film, the average working girl kept the bottle of her favorite medical alcohol that she had purchased from her local "drug store" in her top dresser draw -- but marijuana, although illegal in some states, was not controlled nationally until "The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 essentially banned it nationwide. ..."
-- "Why the US Made Marijuana Illegal," HISTORY
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Thanks🍕Flix❤
Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you.
My sister’s husband’s name was Charles Reed Roberson. Her name was Blanche Marie Roberson but everyone called her Kitty Roberson because she had loved cats 🐈 so much. I just called her sister 👩. That’s what I called her when I had been a child When I became a teenager is ask her if she wanted me to call her Blanche she said no because she wanted me to call her that was her name our name had a T isister like I always did. My 3 children call her Aunt Kitty. My brother”- in-“ law called me Boy instead of girl. 😅😅😅and he always called my mother Mrs Robertson because our name had a T in it and Charlie’s didn’t.
I may be wrong but that 'hallway of doors' at approx 1.06 looks exactly like the same scene Charlie Chaplin used in one of his movies? He had a fight in hallway with another guy?
Volume very low even with an additional speaker, so unfortunately I couldn't watch.☹
✨💜 I didn’t ask you to buy my violets 💜✨
No , no one wants them ! Keep your violets ! One playlist. And its : Suzie Q Wonder , one video. Wow ! It's all about YOU !!!!!
In French: S'occupe tes onions!
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The Marines have landed..and the situation is well at hand!》》》₩☆♡
Best freaking line of the whole dang fiasco scenario 》》》 All's well that ends well folks!
#unitedshades ")
"All's well that ends well" -- can't beat Shakespeare.
However, that said, we, the audience, doesn't actually see the supposedly happy ending; we just hear about it.
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I think today ppl call this "struggle love"
Lmao. I would ever have believed it if I hadn't seen it. In a 1931 main stream movie a guy just walks in (at 10:24) and pats a girl on the butt. This must have been before they instituted the codes.
The codes were there but weren't enforced until Mae West blew up the screen with her double entendres and innuendo a few years later
I could imagine Mary astor playing call of duty zombie
Not blurry enough. I was actually able to read the main title before going to "don't like the video." Nothing else, of course.
Again another really good movie with this guy ruining the end of the movie with his suggestions, why don't you just leave it alone and people want to see suggestions to go look in your playlist
Why wouldn't she go for it herself?
she shouldve picked the other guy
So-called "Mary Astor" was born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke Why the public deceit & disrespect of her family name?
I can’t believe she ended up with that horrible man! I was really rooting for Mr. I-Don’t-Believe-In-Marriage.
Same.
Sure, the cheating married guy is the guy to go for.
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...$15$ 1F. April C B3💎🎉🤑©️™️®️🔒
She was a mean and jealous wife. 👿👿👿👿👿👎👎👎👎🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
Were ALL men cads in these days? LOL
Such a blurry print it was as someone smeared my computer screen with Vaseline. Unwatchable.
Thomas Goldfinch
What a shame.
Thomas equals no mas. GTFO
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@@noahahlstrom3834 Thank you wholeheartedly for being so eloquent, Noah dearest! NOT!!!
@@suzieqwonder3089 Your Shakespearean prose astounds the masses - of morons!!!
scheming secretary wants to marry rich employer for his money & after much ado finally gets her man - the office of the 30's
In those days the only way a woman could enjoy wealth was through inheritance or marriage. The women who worked could never have become wealthy on their own. I find it interesting how women who “married for money” were vilified. What choice did they have if they wanted better living circumstances?
There were a few self made women who built their wealth through hard work,but not many.
Is it just me or were women really less attractive back then. Mary Astor came from a famous acting family so maybe that's why she became a star. Don't really think her acting was much.
Life was a lot tougher on people in those days plus they didn't same diet ! makeup for women with heavier. And people came down with diseases but they don't even think of nowdays.
+Vintage Vera
Women were real back then not like now if you don't like the way you look people just go to doctor's and get fixed what a shame.
It's you. Astor was a porcelain beauty.
Vancou vera they mostly were ugly. It was rare to find a hot woman
Wonderwoman Mazza ...and you know this how?
Oh what a comfort. The way she said that the fire 🔥 had burned most of your clothes but some of them could be “savaged”. At least that’s the way it sounded to me instead of the clothes could be salvaged. 👔🦺🧥👖🥾🎩🧦👕😅😅😅😅😅😊😊😊😊😊😊
Thanks for these oldies Mary Astor a great actresses keep showing audience watches and enjoys them 😀🧡