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
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
as Brigid O'Shaughnessy
Little Women (1949)
as Marmee
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
as Anna Smith
Brigham Young (1940)
as Mary Ann Young
Fiesta (1947)
as Señora Morales
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
as Jewel Mayhew
Cass Timberlane (1947)
as Queenie Havock
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
as The Princess Centimillia
Act of Violence (1949)
as Pat
Convention City (1933)
as Arlene Dale
This Happy Feeling (1958)
as Mrs. Tremaine
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
The Troublemakers (1957)
as Mattie Gerrity
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
as (archive footage)
A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
as Mrs. Corliss
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
as Antoinette de Mauban
The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
as Hilda Lake
Sentimental Tommy (1921)
Actor
The World Changes (1933)
as Virginia Claffin Nordholm
Other Men's Women (1931)
as Lily Kulper
Dodsworth (1936)
as Edith Cortright
Journey to the Day (1960)
as Helen May Whitfield
Oh, Doctor! (1925)
as Dolores Hicks
The Hurricane (1937)
as Mme. DeLaage
Okay for Sound (1946)
as Adriana (archive footage)
Across the Pacific (1942)
as Alberta Marlow
The Power and the Prize (1956)
as Mrs. George Salt
The Thief (1955)
as Isabelle Lagarde
Breakdowns of 1941 (1941)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
White Shoulders (1931)
as Norma Selbee
Red Dust (1932)
as Barbara "Babs" Willis
The Fighting American (1924)
as Mary Brainard
Return to Peyton Place (1961)
as Roberta Carter
The Bright Shawl (1923)
as Narcissa Escobar
The Great Lie (1941)
as Sandra Kovak
Don Q Son of Zorro (1925)
as Dolores de Muro
Desert Fury (1947)
as Fritzi Haller
Claudia and David (1946)
as Elizabeth Van Doren
Midnight (1939)
as Helene Flammarion
I Am a Thief (1934)
as Odette Mauclair
There's Always a Woman (1938)
as Lola Fraser
The Rapids (1922)
as Elsie Worden
Any Number Can Play (1949)
as Ada
Bogart: The Untold Story (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
The Woman from Hell (1929)
as Dee Renaud
The Man Who Played God (1922)
as Young Woman
The Sea Tiger (1927)
as Amy Cortissos
The Ninth Day (1957)
as Virginia Jackson
A Successful Calamity (1932)
as Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
Romance of the Underworld (1928)
as Judith Andrews
Unguarded Women (1924)
as Helen Castle
The Little Giant (1933)
as Ruth Wayburn
The Show of Shows (1929)
as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
as Bessie Foley
Thousands Cheer (1943)
as Hyllary Jones
Hollywood (1923)
as Mary Astor
Cynthia (1947)
as Louise Bishop
The Royal Bed (1931)
as Princess Anne
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1960)
as Mrs. Leslie
Don Juan (1926)
as Adriana della Varnese
A Stranger in My Arms (1959)
as Virgilnie Beasley
The Devil's Hairpin (1957)
as Mrs. Jargin
Dinky (1935)
as Martha Daniels
The Man with Two Faces (1934)
as Jessica Wells
Straight from the Heart (1935)
as Marian Henshaw
Youngblood Hawke (1964)
as Irene Perry
No Place to Go (1927)
as Sally Montgomery
3-Ring Marriage (1928)
as Anna
Jennie Gerhardt (1933)
as Letty Pace
The Fighting Coward (1924)
as Lucy
Return of the Terror (1934)
as Olga Morgan
Listen, Darling (1938)
as Dottie Wingate
Two Arabian Knights (1927)
as Mirza
High Steppers (1926)
as Audrey Nye
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli (1973)
as Self (archive footage)
Turnabout (1940)
as Marion Manning
The Littlest Enemy (1958)
as Mrs. Wickens
Sailors' Wives (1928)
as Carol Trent
Puritan Passions (1923)
as Rachel
Woman Against Woman (1938)
as Cynthia Holland
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan (1936)
as Lillian Cooper
The Wise Guy (1926)
as Mary
Blonde Fever (1944)
as Delilah Donay
My Lady o' the Pines (1921)
as Norah Collison
No Time to Marry (1938)
as Kay McGowan
Wings of the Border (1921)
Actor
And So They Were Married (1936)
as Edith Farnham
Holiday (1930)
as Julia Seton
Inez from Hollywood (1924)
as Fay Bartholdi
Behind Office Doors (1931)
as Mary Linden
The Pace That Thrills (1925)
as Doris
The Runaway Bride (1930)
as Mary Gray
Man of Iron (1935)
as Vida
Brother of the Bear (1921)
as Marcia Harthorn
To the Ladies (1924)
as Undetermined Secondary Role
Red Hot Tires (1935)
as Patricia Sanford
Young Ideas (1943)
as Josephine Evans
Page Miss Glory (1935)
as Gladys
The Hollywood Gad-About (1934)
as Self
Paradise for Three (1938)
as Mrs. Irene Mallebre
Upperworld (1934)
as Hettie Stream
The Lost Squadron (1932)
as Follette Marsh
Men of Chance (1931)
as Marthe
The Price of a Party (1924)
as Alice Barrows
New Year's Eve (1929)
as Marjorie Ware
Hope (1922)
as Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
Rose of the Golden West (1927)
as Elena
The Lash (1930)
as Dona Rosita Garcia
Enticement (1925)
as Leonore Bewlay
The Rough Riders (1927)
as Dolly
Easy to Love (1934)
as Charlotte
Yesterday and Today (1953)
as (archive footage)
Dry Martini (1928)
as Elizabeth Quimby
Woman-Proof (1923)
as Violet Lynwood
Those We Love (1932)
as May Ballard
Beau Brummel (1924)
as Lady Margery Alvanley
Playing with Souls (1925)
as Margo
Lady from Nowhere (1936)
as Polly Dunlap
Smart Woman (1931)
as Nancy Gibson
Ladies Love Brutes (1930)
as Mimi Howell
John Smith (1922)
as Irene Mason
The Beggar Maid (1921)
as Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
Scarlet Saint (1925)
as Fidele Tridon
The Sin Ship (1931)
as Frisco Kitty
The Marriage Maker (1923)
as Vivian Hope-Clarke
Second Fiddle (1923)
as Polly Crawford
Trapped by Television (1936)
as Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
Forever After (1926)
as Jennie Clayton
Heart to Heart (1928)
as Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
Success (1923)
as Rose Randolph
Dressed to Kill (1928)
as Jeanne
The Sunset Derby (1927)
as Molly Gibson
The Young Painter (1922)
as Helen Seymour
Bullets or Ballots (1921)
as Bit Part
The Angelus (1922)
as Bit Part