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The Royal Bed (1930)

Mary Astor stars in this comedy-drama about the foibles of monarchy. As a tiny European kingdom is beset by revolutionaries, royal family member Princess Anne (Astor) finds her plans to wed a commoner (Anthony Bushell) threatened by an arranged marriage to a prince (Hugh Trevor) she doesn’t even know. With Lowell Sherman, Nance O’Neil, J. Carroll Naish. 73 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Behind Office Doors (1931)

Mary Astor stars in this lush melodrama as Mary Linden, a super-efficient secretary for a New York-based paper company. Carrying a torch for salesman James Duneen (Robert Ames), she helps him rise to the firm’s presidency. But when James announces his engagement to a banker’s daughter, a distraught Mary is let go...and falls into the arms of a married playboy (Ricardo Cortez). 82 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Those We Love (1932)

One of the first and finest "women’s pictures" of the talkies era stars Mary Astor as a long-suffering wife whose husband is obviously cheating on her and throwing away his relationship with their 13-year-old son. Can she make sense of her troubles and somehow find the strength she needs to carry on? With Kenneth MacKenna, Lilyan Tashman, Hale Hamilton. 72 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Standard; Soundtrack: English.