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