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