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