Mary Astor
130 movies · 18 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 3, 1906
- Died
- Sep 25, 1987 (age 81)
- Place of birth
- Quincy, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- Μαίρη Άστορ · Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke
Biography
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.
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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."
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Mary Astor: movies and TV shows
Acting (148)
- 1976 That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
- 1964 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
as Jewel Mayhew
- 1964 Youngblood Hawke
as Irene Perry
- 1963
- 1961
- 1961
- 1961
- 1961 Return to Peyton Place
as Roberta Carter
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960 Journey to the Day
as Helen May Whitfield
- 1960 The Snows of Kilimanjaro
as Mrs. Leslie
- 1959 A Stranger in My Arms
as Virgilnie Beasley
- 1959
- 1958 This Happy Feeling
as Mrs. Tremaine
- 1958 The Littlest Enemy
as Mrs. Wickens
- 1957 The Troublemakers
as Mattie Gerrity
- 1957 The Devil's Hairpin
as Mrs. Jargin
- 1957 The Ninth Day
as Virginia Jackson
- 1956
- 1956 The Power and the Prize
as Mrs. George Salt
- 1956 A Kiss Before Dying
as Mrs. Corliss
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955 The Thief
as Isabelle Lagarde
- 1954
- 1954
- 1953 Yesterday and Today
as (archive footage)
- 1953
- 1953
- 1950
- 1950
- 1949 Any Number Can Play
as Ada
- 1949 Little Women
as Marmee
- 1949 Act of Violence
as Pat
- 1948
- 1948
- 1947 Cass Timberlane
as Queenie Havock
- 1947 Cynthia
as Louise Bishop
- 1947 Desert Fury
as Fritzi Haller
- 1947 Fiesta
as Señora Morales
- 1946 Okay for Sound
as Adriana (archive footage)
- 1946 Claudia and David
as Elizabeth Van Doren
- 1944 Blonde Fever
as Delilah Donay
- 1944 Meet Me in St. Louis
as Anna Smith
- 1943 Thousands Cheer
as Hyllary Jones
- 1943 Young Ideas
as Josephine Evans
- 1942 Across the Pacific
as Alberta Marlow
- 1942 The Palm Beach Story
as The Princess Centimillia
- 1941 The Maltese Falcon
as Brigid O'Shaughnessy
- 1941 The Great Lie
as Sandra Kovak
- 1940 Brigham Young
as Mary Ann Young
- 1940 Turnabout
as Marion Manning
- 1939 Midnight
as Helene Flammarion
- 1938 Listen, Darling
as Dottie Wingate
- 1938 Woman Against Woman
as Cynthia Holland
- 1938 Paradise for Three
as Mrs. Irene Mallebre
- 1938 There's Always a Woman
as Lola Fraser
- 1938 No Time to Marry
as Kay McGowan
- 1937 The Hurricane
as Mme. DeLaage
- 1937 The Prisoner of Zenda
as Antoinette de Mauban
- 1936 Lady from Nowhere
as Polly Dunlap
- 1936 Dodsworth
as Edith Cortright
- 1936 Trapped by Television
as Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
- 1936 And So They Were Married
as Edith Farnham
- 1936 The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
as Lillian Cooper
- 1935 Man of Iron
as Vida
- 1935 Page Miss Glory
as Gladys
- 1935 Dinky
as Martha Daniels
- 1935 Straight from the Heart
as Marian Henshaw
- 1935 Red Hot Tires
as Patricia Sanford
- 1934 I Am a Thief
as Odette Mauclair
- 1934 The Case of the Howling Dog
as Bessie Foley
- 1934 The Man with Two Faces
as Jessica Wells
- 1934 Return of the Terror
as Olga Morgan
- 1934 Upperworld
as Hettie Stream
- 1934 Easy to Love
as Charlotte
- 1933 Convention City
as Arlene Dale
- 1933 The World Changes
as Virginia Claffin Nordholm
- 1933 The Kennel Murder Case
as Hilda Lake
- 1933 Jennie Gerhardt
as Letty Pace
- 1933 The Little Giant
as Ruth Wayburn
- 1932 Red Dust
as Barbara "Babs" Willis
- 1932 A Successful Calamity
as Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
- 1932 Those We Love
as May Ballard
- 1932 The Lost Squadron
as Follette Marsh
- 1931 Men of Chance
as Marthe
- 1931 Smart Woman
as Nancy Gibson
- 1931 White Shoulders
as Norma Selbee
- 1931 The Sin Ship
as Frisco Kitty
- 1931 Behind Office Doors
as Mary Linden
- 1931 Other Men's Women
as Lily Kulper
- 1931 The Royal Bed
as Princess Anne
- 1930 The Lash
as Dona Rosita Garcia
- 1930 Holiday
as Julia Seton
- 1930 Ladies Love Brutes
as Mimi Howell
- 1930 The Runaway Bride
as Mary Gray
- 1929 The Show of Shows
as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
- 1929 The Woman from Hell
as Dee Renaud
- 1929 New Year's Eve
as Marjorie Ware
- 1928 Romance of the Underworld
as Judith Andrews
- 1928 Dry Martini
as Elizabeth Quimby
- 1928 Heart to Heart
as Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
- 1928 3-Ring Marriage
as Anna
- 1928 Dressed to Kill
as Jeanne
- 1928 Sailors' Wives
as Carol Trent
- 1927 No Place to Go
as Sally Montgomery
- 1927 The Rough Riders
as Dolly
- 1927 Rose of the Golden West
as Elena
- 1927 Two Arabian Knights
as Mirza
- 1927 The Sunset Derby
as Molly Gibson
- 1927 The Sea Tiger
as Amy Cortissos
- 1926 Forever After
as Jennie Clayton
- 1926 Don Juan
as Adriana della Varnese
- 1926 The Wise Guy
as Mary
- 1926 High Steppers
as Audrey Nye
- 1925 Scarlet Saint
as Fidele Tridon
- 1925 The Pace That Thrills
as Doris
- 1925 Don Q Son of Zorro
as Dolores de Muro
- 1925 Playing with Souls
as Margo
- 1925 Enticement
as Leonore Bewlay
- 1925 Oh, Doctor!
as Dolores Hicks
- 1924 Inez from Hollywood
as Fay Bartholdi
- 1924 The Price of a Party
as Alice Barrows
- 1924 To the Ladies
as Undetermined Secondary Role
- 1924 Unguarded Women
as Helen Castle
- 1924 The Fighting American
as Mary Brainard
- 1924 Beau Brummel
as Lady Margery Alvanley
- 1924 The Fighting Coward
as Lucy
- 1923 Woman-Proof
as Violet Lynwood
- 1923 The Marriage Maker
as Vivian Hope-Clarke
- 1923 Puritan Passions
as Rachel
- 1923 Hollywood
as Mary Astor
- 1923 The Bright Shawl
as Narcissa Escobar
- 1923 Success
as Rose Randolph
- 1923 Second Fiddle
as Polly Crawford
- 1922 The Rapids
as Elsie Worden
- 1922 The Man Who Played God
as Young Woman
- 1922 Hope
as Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
- 1922 John Smith
as Irene Mason
- 1922 The Young Painter
as Helen Seymour
- 1922 The Angelus
as Bit Part
- 1921
- 1921 The Beggar Maid
as Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
- 1921 My Lady o' the Pines
as Norah Collison
- 1921
- 1921 Brother of the Bear
as Marcia Harthorn
- 1921 Bullets or Ballots
as Bit Part
Talk shows and appearances (6)
- 2006
- 1997
- 1980 Hollywood
1 episode
- 1973
- 1941
- 1934