Mary Astor
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Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 - September 25, 1987) was an American actress. Most remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941) with Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. She eventually made a successful transition to talkies, but almost saw her career destroyed due to public scandal in the mid-1930s. She was sued for support by her parents and was later branded an adulterous wife by her ex-husband during a custody fight over her daughter. Overcoming these stumbling blocks in her private life, Astor went on to even greater success on the screen, eventually winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Sandra Kovak in The Great Lie (1941). She was an MGM contract player through most of the 1940s and continued to act in movies, on television and on stage until her retirement from the screen in 1964. Astor was the author of five novels. Her autobiography became a bestseller, as did her later book, A Life on Film, which was specifically about her career. Director Lindsay Anderson wrote of her in 1990: "...(W)hen two or three who love the cinema are gathered together, the name of Mary Astor always comes up, and everybody agrees that she was an actress of special attraction, whose qualities of depth and reality always seemed to illuminate the parts she played." Description above from the Wikipedia article Mary Astor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Little Women (1949)
as Marmee
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
as Brigid O'Shaughnessy
Brigham Young (1940)
as Mary Ann Young
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
as Jewel Mayhew
Dodsworth (1936)
as Edith Cortright
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
as Anna Smith
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
as The Princess Centimillia
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
as Antoinette de Mauban
The Great Lie (1941)
as Sandra Kovak
Cass Timberlane (1947)
as Queenie Havock
Desert Fury (1947)
as Fritzi Haller
Fiesta (1947)
as Señora Morales
Act of Violence (1949)
as Pat
Across the Pacific (1942)
as Alberta Marlow
The Hurricane (1937)
as Mme. DeLaage
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli (1973)
as Self (archive footage)
A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
as Mrs. Corliss
The Thief (1955)
as Isabelle Lagarde
Bogart: The Untold Story (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
Midnight (1939)
as Helene Flammarion
Convention City (1933)
as Arlene Dale
Any Number Can Play (1949)
as Ada
Unguarded Women (1924)
as Helen Castle
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
as (archive footage)
Don Juan (1926)
as Adriana della Varnese
The Show of Shows (1929)
as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
Breakdowns of 1941 (1941)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Return to Peyton Place (1961)
as Roberta Carter
The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
as Hilda Lake
Easy to Love (1934)
as Charlotte
Red Dust (1932)
as Barbara "Babs" Willis
Holiday (1930)
as Julia Seton
This Happy Feeling (1958)
as Mrs. Tremaine
Other Men's Women (1931)
as Lily Kulper
The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
as Bessie Foley
The Rapids (1922)
as Elsie Worden
Turnabout (1940)
as Marion Manning
Okay for Sound (1946)
as Adriana (archive footage)
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
Claudia and David (1946)
as Elizabeth Van Doren
Oh, Doctor! (1925)
as Dolores Hicks
White Shoulders (1931)
as Norma Selbee
Thousands Cheer (1943)
as Hyllary Jones
Youngblood Hawke (1964)
as Irene Perry
Hollywood (1923)
as Mary Astor
Sentimental Tommy (1921)
Actor
Smart Woman (1931)
as Nancy Gibson
The Beggar Maid (1921)
as Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan (1936)
as Lillian Cooper
Return of the Terror (1934)
as Olga Morgan
Don Q Son of Zorro (1925)
as Dolores de Muro
Upperworld (1934)
as Hettie Stream
Man of Iron (1935)
as Vida
The Rough Riders (1927)
as Dolly
Two Arabian Knights (1927)
as Mirza
A Stranger in My Arms (1959)
as Virgilnie Beasley
Beau Brummel (1924)
as Lady Margery Alvanley
Paradise for Three (1938)
as Mrs. Irene Mallebre
The Devil's Hairpin (1957)
as Mrs. Jargin
Young Ideas (1943)
as Josephine Evans
There's Always a Woman (1938)
as Lola Fraser
Jennie Gerhardt (1933)
as Letty Pace
Cynthia (1947)
as Louise Bishop
The Fighting American (1924)
as Mary Brainard
Listen, Darling (1938)
as Dottie Wingate
The Power and the Prize (1956)
as Mrs. George Salt
Romance of the Underworld (1928)
as Judith Andrews
Those We Love (1932)
as May Ballard
Rose of the Golden West (1927)
as Elena
Trapped by Television (1936)
as Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
The World Changes (1933)
as Virginia Claffin Nordholm
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1960)
as Mrs. Leslie
The Man with Two Faces (1934)
as Jessica Wells
The Woman from Hell (1929)
as Dee Renaud
No Place to Go (1927)
as Sally Montgomery
The Bright Shawl (1923)
as Narcissa Escobar
Page Miss Glory (1935)
as Gladys
Lady from Nowhere (1936)
as Polly Dunlap
A Successful Calamity (1932)
as Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
Blonde Fever (1944)
as Delilah Donay
The Lost Squadron (1932)
as Follette Marsh
The Royal Bed (1931)
as Princess Anne
No Time to Marry (1938)
as Kay McGowan
The Hollywood Gad-About (1934)
as Self
The Sea Tiger (1927)
as Amy Cortissos
I Am a Thief (1934)
as Odette Mauclair
Dinky (1935)
as Martha Daniels
The Little Giant (1933)
as Ruth Wayburn
Straight from the Heart (1935)
as Marian Henshaw
The Fighting Coward (1924)
as Lucy
New Year's Eve (1929)
as Marjorie Ware
The Sunset Derby (1927)
as Molly Gibson
And So They Were Married (1936)
as Edith Farnham
Heart to Heart (1928)
as Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
Red Hot Tires (1935)
as Patricia Sanford
The Ninth Day (1957)
Actor
The Pace That Thrills (1925)
as Doris
The Sin Ship (1931)
as Frisco Kitty
Yesterday and Today (1953)
as (archive footage)
Behind Office Doors (1931)
as Mary Linden
High Steppers (1926)
as Audrey Nye
Success (1923)
as Rose Randolph
The Lash (1930)
as Dona Rosita Garcia
Men of Chance (1931)
as Marthe
To the Ladies (1924)
as Undetermined Secondary Role
3-Ring Marriage (1928)
as Anna
Forever After (1926)
as Jennie Clayton
The Angelus (1922)
as Bit Part
Enticement (1925)
as Leonore Bewlay
Second Fiddle (1923)
as Polly Crawford
Wings of the Border (1921)
Actor
Sailors' Wives (1928)
as Carol Trent
The Runaway Bride (1930)
as Mary Gray
The Wise Guy (1926)
as Mary
The Man Who Played God (1922)
as Young Woman
Brother of the Bear (1921)
as Marcia Harthorn
Journey to the Day (1960)
as Helen May Whitfield
Puritan Passions (1923)
as Rachel
The Littlest Enemy (1958)
as Mrs. Wickens
Ladies Love Brutes (1930)
as Mimi Howell
Woman-Proof (1923)
as Violet Lynwood
Dressed to Kill (1928)
as Jeanne
Woman Against Woman (1938)
as Cynthia Holland
Dry Martini (1928)
as Elizabeth Quimby
Inez from Hollywood (1924)
as Fay Bartholdi
Scarlet Saint (1925)
as Fidele Tridon
The Marriage Maker (1923)
as Vivian Hope-Clarke
Playing with Souls (1925)
as Margo
The Price of a Party (1924)
as Alice Barrows
The Young Painter (1922)
as Helen Seymour
Hope (1922)
as Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
John Smith (1922)
as Irene Mason
My Lady o' the Pines (1921)
as Norah Collison
Bullets or Ballots (1921)
as Bit Part