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