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