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