1938: Mary Astor in "Listen, Darling", "Paradise for Three", and "There's Always a Woman"
Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 10:00PM Before each Smackdown, Nick Taylor considers alternates to Oscar's Best Supporting Actress roster...
Thank you to everyone who recommended performances from 1938 to look into! And a big thanks, especially, to joel6, whose suggestion inspired today's write-up.
Mary Astor made five movies in 1938. Three of them - Listen, Darling, Paradise for Three, and There’s Always a Woman - are still relatively easy to track down online. One of these missing titles, Woman Against Woman, barely seems to exist anymore. I also couldn’t find No Time to Marry anywhere, which is a shame since it sounds like an actual leading role. But the three titles one can easily find all provide a snapshot of this endlessly talented actress doing her thing across a wide range of genres and archetypes...