Gertrude Astor
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Gertrude Astor (Born Gertrude Eyster November 9, 1887 – November 9, 1977) was an American motion picture character actress, who began her career playing trombone on a riverboat. Born in Lakewood, Ohio, Astor at the age of 12 ran off and joined a woman's band as a trombone player and toured the states. In New York she left the band to obtain film work and got a job as an extra before her career took off. Astor was a prolific performer, between 1915 and 1962 she appeared in over 250 movies. Her first known credit is in a Biograph short in 1915. She then became a contract player at Universal. A tall, angular and beautiful woman, Astor frequently towered over the leading men of the era; thus, she was most frequently utilized in comedy roles as aristocrats, golddiggers and "heroine's best pal". Her best-known silent appearances were as the visiting stage star in Stage Struck (1925) with Gloria Swanson, as the vamp who plants stolen money on Harry Langdon in The Strong Man (1926), and as Laura LaPlante's wisecracking travelling companion in The Cat and the Canary (1927). Astor worked prolifically at Hal Roach studios with such headliners as Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, and especially Charley Chase. She was also kept busy at Columbia Pictures' short subjects unit. She continued to play bits in feature films throughout the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. She was briefly glimpsed as the first murder victim in the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Scarlet Claw and was among the ranks of dress extras in 1956's Around the World in Eighty Days. Her last appearance was in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. In her later years, Astor was a welcome guest at several Sons of the Desert gatherings, and became an honorary member of the Way Out West tent. She died in Woodland Hills, California from a stroke. She is interred in the Abbey of Psalms in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, CA.
Known for
Credits
The Sound of Music (1965)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
as Courtier (uncredited)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
as Townswoman (uncredited)
All About Eve (1950)
as Sarah Siddons Awards Guest (uncredited)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
as Extra (uncredited)
3 Godfathers (1948)
as Saloon Girl (uncredited)
The Wolf Man (1941)
as Townswoman (uncredited)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Dragonwyck (1946)
as Nurse (uncredited)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
as Bit Part (uncredited)
The Horse Soldiers (1959)
as Townswoman (uncredited)
A Star Is Born (1954)
as Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
Paula (1952)
as Mrs. Brown (uncredited)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
as Garden Party Guest (uncredited)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
as Prison Matron (uncredited)
My Man Godfrey (1957)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
The Verdict (1925)
as Mrs. Ronsard
Dick Tracy (1945)
as Woman (uncredited)
Angel Face (1953)
as Matron (uncredited)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
as Ball Guest (uncredited)
Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
The Women (1939)
as Mud Bath Nurse (uncredited)
Burning Daylight (1920)
as Lucille
Wichita (1955)
as Saloon Madam (uncredited)
When Worlds Collide (1951)
as Traveler (uncredited)
Here Comes Trouble (1948)
as Woman with Dog (uncredited)
Caged (1950)
as Inmate (uncredited)
Two Rode Together (1961)
as Mrs. Wringle (uncredited)
The Tingler (1959)
as Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)
as Juror (uncredited)
Sister Kenny (1946)
as Doctor (uncredited)
Polly Redhead (1917)
as Lady Caroline
Chasing Husbands (1928)
Actor
The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
as Denver Party Guest (uncredited)
Daddy Long Legs (1955)
as Art Gallery Patron (uncredited)
Through the Back Door (1921)
as Louise Reeves
The Scarlet Claw (1944)
Actor
Wife Tamers (1926)
as Mrs. Barry
The Delicious Little Devil (1919)
as Auditioning Dancer (uncredited)
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
as Young Woman in Bar (uncredited)
Hit of the Show (1928)
as Trece
Kiki (1926)
as Paulette Mascar
The Female Animal (1958)
as Actress on Movie Set (uncredited)
Twin Beds (1929)
as Mrs. Solari
Empty Saddles (1936)
as Eloise Hayes
The Best of Everything (1959)
as Leading Woman in Play (uncredited)
High Hats and Low Brows (1932)
as Mrs. Billingsgate
All in a Night's Work (1961)
as Customer (uncredited)
Sin Cargo (1926)
as Mary Wickham
Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
as Dame (uncredited)
Pursued (1925)
as Madame La Grande
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)
as Townswoman
San Francisco (1936)
as Drunk's Girl (uncredited)
The Cat and the Canary (1927)
as Cecily
Deep in My Heart (1954)
as Dorothy's Nurse (uncredited)
Moontide (1942)
as Woman (uncredited)
The Lash of Power (1917)
as Phyllis Ward
Sitting Pretty (1948)
as Townswoman (uncredited)
Tassels in the Air (1938)
as Louella Pindell (uncredited)
A Woman of Affairs (1928)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Thunder on the Hill (1951)
as Village Woman (uncredited)
Scandal Sheet (1952)
as Neighbor (uncredited)
Bondage (1917)
as Eugenia Darth
Montana (1950)
as Townswoman (uncredited)
Her Mad Bargain (1921)
as Ruth Beresford
The Virgin Queen (1955)
as Lady-in-Waiting - 2nd Group
I'll Take Vanilla (1934)
as Mom
Folly of Youth (1925)
as Evelyn Cartwright
The Merry Widow (1952)
as Reception Guest (uncredited)
The Wall Flower (1922)
as Pamela Shiel
Wells Fargo (1937)
as Pioneer Woman
Easy Living (1937)
as Saleswoman (uncredited)
The Climax (1944)
as Woman in Audience Behind Franz (Uncredited)
Scared Stiff (1953)
as Man with Spaghetti's Wife (uncredited)
Fort Osage (1952)
as Townswoman (uncredited)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)
as Mrs. St. Clare (uncredited)
Cheyenne's Pal (1917)
as Dancehall girl
Fight and Win (1924)
Actor
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted (1925)
as Greta
The Kansan (1943)
as Blonde Townswoman
The Cheerful Fraud (1926)
as Rose
The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949)
as Saloon Girl (uncredited)
Western Limited (1932)
as Mrs. Winters
My Dear Secretary (1948)
as Miss Gee (uncredited)
The Six-Fifty (1923)
as Christine Palmer
Crack-Up (1946)
as Nagging Wife on Train (Uncredited)
The Boy Friend (1926)
as Mrs. White
The Devil's Pay Day (1917)
as Hazel Davidson
Here Comes the Band (1935)
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Apache Drums (1951)
as Townswoman (uncredited)
$1,000 a Touchdown (1939)
as McGlen Wife (uncredited)
Broadway or Bust (1924)
as Mrs. Dean Smythe
Satan in Sables (1925)
as Dolores Sierra
The Irresistible Lover (1927)
as Dolly Carleton
The Girl Who Won Out (1917)
as Mrs. Walsh
The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)
as Extra (uncredited)
Poker Widows (1931)
as Mrs. Thomas Regan
Ship of Wanted Men (1933)
as Vera
The Scarlet Crystal (1917)
as Helen Forbes
The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)
as Woman (uncredited)
Pretty Smooth (1919)
as Mrs. Hanson
The Strong Man (1926)
as Lily de Broadway
The Ninety and Nine (1922)
as Kate Van Dyke
The Brazen Beauty (1918)
as Mrs. Augusta Van Ruysdael
Loot (1919)
as Lady Gwendolyn
In Walked Charley (1932)
as Gertrude Henderson
Woman in Hiding (1950)
as Woman in Drugstore (uncredited)
Fun on a Weekend (1947)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Hollywood (1923)
as Gertrude Astor
Come Clean (1931)
as Mrs. Hardy
The Small Bachelor (1927)
as Fanny
Girls of the Big House (1945)
as Railroad Matron
Bunco Squad (1950)
as Club Patron (uncredited)
Northern Frontier (1935)
as Mae
The Lion Man (1919)
as Celeste La Rue
The Family Group (1928)
Actor
Vamping the Vamp (1918)
as Thedeska - The Vamp
Stocks and Blondes (1928)
as Goldie
Occasionally Yours (1920)
as Mona
It's in the Air (1935)
as (uncredited)
Swingin' on a Rainbow (1945)
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Lost Canyon (1942)
as Mrs. Anson
Border Brigands (1935)
as Big Six -Saloon Girl
Untamed (1929)
as Mrs. Mason
Rose-Marie (1928)
as Wanda
Dames Ahoy (1930)
as The Blonde
No More Ladies (1935)
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
The Reckless Sex (1925)
as Lucile Dupré
The Taxi Dancer (1927)
as Kitty Lane
Great Guy (1936)
as Party Guest (Uncredited)
The Little Orphan (1917)
as Emmeline Warren
The Devil's Hand (1961)
as The Elderly Cultist
The Gray Ghost (1917)
as Lady Gwendolyn
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River (1924)
as 'Kansas' Lou
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All (1948)
as Mrs. Howard
Music Man (1948)
as Mrs. Larkin
They Never Come Back (1932)
as Kate
Beyond the Rocks (1922)
as Morella Winmarleigh
Postal Inspector (1936)
as Woman with Drumsticks (uncredited)
The Ne'er-Do-Well (1923)
as Edith Cortlandt
Bad Boy (1935)
Actor
Don Juan's 3 Nights (1926)
as Baroness von Minden
The Torrent (1924)
as The Cast-Off
Calcutta (1946)
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
The Fall of Eve (1929)
as Mrs. Ford
The Impossible Mrs. Bellew (1922)
as Alice Granville
Five and Ten Cent Annie (1928)
as Blonde
Ginsberg the Great (1927)
as Sappho
I Don't Remember (1935)
as Sophie Glick
The Kentucky Derby (1922)
as Helen Gordon
Bucking Broadway (1917)
as Gladys (uncredited)
The Charmer (1925)
as Bertha Sedgwick
Rich Relations (1937)
Actor
Idaho (1943)
as Party Guest
The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris (1928)
as Paulette
Oh, What a Man! (1927)
as The Bandit
What Am I Bid? (1919)
as Diana Newlands
The Butter and Egg Man (1928)
as Fanny Lehman
Wine, Women and Song (1933)
as Jennie Tilson
Kentucky Pride (1925)
as Mrs. Beaumont
Borrowed Finery (1925)
as Maisie
Cappy Ricks Returns (1935)
as Speaker (uncredited)
An Angel Comes To Brooklyn (1945)
as Eva Tanguay (uncredited)
Manhattan Monkey Business (1935)
as Gwendolyn
Weird Woman (1944)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
The Price of a Good Time (1917)
as Mis Schyler
All's Swell on the Ocean (1924)
Actor
Running Hollywood (1932)
as Gertrude Astor
The Llano Kid (1939)
as Saloon Hostess
The Old Soak (1926)
as Sylvia De Costa
The Chases of Pimple Street (1934)
as Gertrude Astor - Lucas' Fiancee (uncredited)
Again Pioneers (1950)
as Mrs. Jans
Be Yourself! (1930)
as Lillian
The Old West (1952)
as Townswoman (uncredited)
Lightning Lariats (1927)
as Girl
Flaming Gold (1932)
as Escort Service Madam
Stage Struck (1925)
as Lillian Lyons
The Fatal Warning (1929)
Actor
The Avenging Rider (1943)
as Martha
Wives Never Know (1936)
as Mrs. Merchant (uncredited)
The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit (1918)
as Stella Carter
Frozen Justice (1929)
as Moosehide Kate
All Over Town (1937)
as Mamie
Frisco Lil (1942)
Actor
Behind the Front (1926)
as French barmaid
Misbehaving Husbands (1940)
as Gossiping Friend
Washee Ironee (1934)
as Woman at Party
The Country Beyond (1926)
as Mrs. Andrews
The Wanters (1923)
as Mrs. Van Pelt
Hell Bound (1931)
as Rosie
Lorna Doone (1922)
as Countess of Brandir (uncredited)
The Wicked Darling (1919)
as Adele Hoyt
Rupert of Hentzau (1923)
as Paula
Secrets (1924)
as Mrs. Manwaring
Dizzy Daddies (1926)
as A Former Flame
Synthetic Sin (1929)
as Sheila Kelly
The Silent Watcher (1924)
as Mrs. Steele
Carnival Lady (1933)
as Zandra, Fortune Teller
The Plumber and the Lady (1933)
as Mrs. Otto Mauser
Seeing's Believing (1922)
as Aunt Sue
Alice Adams (1923)
as Mildred Palmer
Flaming Youth (1923)
as Annie
Laughing Ladies (1925)
as The Married Man's Wife
While Paris Sleeps (1932)
Actor
Crook's Tour (1933)
as Mrs Dorigan
Wedding Belles (1934)
Actor
Hurricane's Gal (1922)
as Phyllis Fairfield
The Branding Iron (1920)
as Betty Morena
Honeymoon Limited (1935)
as Lady Devonshire
Ship of Souls (1925)
as Doris Barnes
Live and Learn (1930)
as Mrs. Brown
Skin Deep (1922)
as Mrs. Carlson
Robes of Sin (1924)
Actor
I Have Lived (1933)
as Harriet Naisson
Guilty Parents (1934)
as Marie
Two Weeks Off (1929)
as Agnes
The Concert (1921)
as Eva
Under Two Flags (1915)
as Venetia
The Drunkard (1935)
as Peggy
Bombs and Banknotes (1917)
as His Daughter
You Never Know (1922)
as Miriam Folansbee
The Rescue (1917)
as Mrs. Hendricks
Tell 'Em Nothing (1926)
as Mrs. Gladstone