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Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 3, 1906
Died
September 25, 1987
Place of Birth
Quincy, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- Μαίρη Άστορ
- Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke
Mary Astor
0.7 Popularity
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. 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
7.8
Self (archive footage)
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
2006
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997
8.3
Self
Hollywood
1980
6.9
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
0.0
Self (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973
7.3
Jewel Mayhew
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964
6.1
Irene Perry
Youngblood Hawke
1964
6.0
Florence Roberts
Burke's Law
1963
5.6
Ben Casey
1961
5.5
Martha Lantzinge
Dr. Kildare
1961
Credits
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
as Self (archive footage)
2006
7.8
Bogart: The Untold Story
as Self (archive footage)
1997
0.0
Hollywood
as Self
1980
8.3
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1976
6.9
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
as Self (archive footage)
1973
0.0
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
as Jewel Mayhew
1964
7.3
Youngblood Hawke
as Irene Perry
1964
6.1
Burke's Law
as Florence Roberts
1963
6.0
Ben Casey
1961
5.6
Dr. Kildare
as Martha Lantzinge
1961
5.5
Dr. Kildare
as Aunt Frances
1961
5.5
The Defenders
as Flora Goode
1961
6.2
Return to Peyton Place
as Mrs. Roberta Carter
1961
6.7
Checkmate
as Esther Brack
1960
4.1
Thriller
as Rose French
1960
6.4
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
as Mrs. Leslie
1960
0.0
A Stranger in My Arms
as Virgilnie Beasley
1959
2.3
Rawhide
as Emma Cardwell
1959
7.2
This Happy Feeling
as Mrs. Tremaine
1958
3.8
The Devil's Hairpin
as Mrs. Jargin
1957
5.0
The Ninth Day
1957
0.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Sarah Simmons
1956
5.5
The Power and the Prize
as Mrs. George Salt
1956
5.5
A Kiss Before Dying
as Mrs. Corliss
1956
6.2
🎬
Playwrights '56
1955
6.0
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Mrs. Fenimore
1955
7.7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Grace Dolan
1955
7.7
The Thief
as Isabelle Lagarde
1955
4.8
🎬
Producers' Showcase
as Nancy Blake
1954
6.5
Climax!
as Mrs. Harriss
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Ethel Allen
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Martha
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Clarissa Bowman
1954
3.3
Yesterday and Today
as (archive footage)
1953
0.0
The United States Steel Hour
as Isabelle Lagarde
1953
6.2
General Electric Theater
as Bea Hicks
1953
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Margaret Eliot
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Mildred Le Brun
1950
6.3
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Norma Desmond
1950
5.6
Any Number Can Play
as Ada
1949
6.9
Little Women
as Marmee
1949
7.4
Act of Violence
as Pat
1949
6.9
Studio One
as Ruth Sparling
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Harriet Brand
1948
5.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3
Cass Timberlane
as Queenie Havock
1947
5.9
Cynthia
as Louise Bishop
1947
5.9
Desert Fury
as Fritzi Haller
1947
6.0
Fiesta
as Señora Morales
1947
4.7
Okay for Sound
as Adriana (archive footage)
1946
5.0
Claudia and David
as Elizabeth Van Doren
1946
6.0
Blonde Fever
as Delilah Donay
1944
4.4
Meet Me in St. Louis
as Anna Smith
1944
7.0
Thousands Cheer
as Hyllary Jones
1943
6.4
Young Ideas
as Josephine Evans
1943
4.6
Across the Pacific
as Alberta Marlow
1942
6.6
The Palm Beach Story
as The Princess Centimillia
1942
7.0
Breakdowns of 1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1941
7.0
The Maltese Falcon
as Brigid O'Shaughnessy
1941
7.7
The Great Lie
as Sandra Kovak
1941
6.8
Brigham Young
as Mary Ann Young
1940
4.4
Turnabout
as Marion Manning
1940
6.0
Midnight
as Helene Flammarion
1939
7.4
Listen, Darling
as Dottie Wingate
1938
6.3
Woman Against Woman
as Cynthia Holland
1938
6.5
Paradise for Three
as Mrs. Irene Mallebre
1938
6.8
There's Always a Woman
as Lola Fraser
1938
5.8
No Time to Marry
as Kay McGowan
1938
6.0
The Hurricane
as Mme. DeLaage
1937
6.6
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Antoinette de Mauban
1937
7.4
Lady from Nowhere
as Polly Dunlap
1936
0.0
Dodsworth
as Edith Cortright
1936
7.1
Trapped by Television
as Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
1936
6.4
And So They Were Married
as Edith Farnham
1936
5.8
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
as Lillian Cooper
1936
5.6
Man of Iron
as Vida
1935
6.0
Page Miss Glory
as Gladys
1935
6.3
Dinky
as Martha Daniels
1935
6.7
Straight from the Heart
as Marian Henshaw
1935
0.0
Red Hot Tires
as Patricia Sanford
1935
5.8
I Am a Thief
as Odette Mauclair
1934
6.0
The Hollywood Gad-About
as Self
1934
5.0
The Case of the Howling Dog
as Bessie Foley
1934
6.5
The Man with Two Faces
as Jessica Wells
1934
6.5
Return of the Terror
as Olga Morgan
1934
6.0
Upperworld
as Hettie Stream
1934
6.3
Easy to Love
as Charlotte
1934
5.1
Convention City
as Arlene Dale
1933
3.7
The World Changes
as Virginia Claffin Nordholm
1933
4.8
The Kennel Murder Case
as Hilda Lake
1933
6.1
Jennie Gerhardt
as Letty Pace
1933
4.0
The Little Giant
as Ruth Wayburn
1933
6.8
Red Dust
as Barbara "Babs" Willis
1932
7.0
A Successful Calamity
as Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
1932
5.2
Those We Love
as May Ballard
1932
6.0
The Lost Squadron
as Follette Marsh
1932
6.3
Men of Chance
as Marthe
1931
5.8
Smart Woman
as Nancy Gibson
1931
5.9
White Shoulders
as Norma Selbee
1931
0.0
The Sin Ship
as Frisco Kitty
1931
5.8
Behind Office Doors
as Mary Linden
1931
4.8
Other Men's Women
as Lily Kulper
1931
5.7
The Royal Bed
as Princess Anne
1931
4.0
The Lash
as Dona Rosita Garcia
1930
5.3
Holiday
as Julia Seton
1930
6.2
Ladies Love Brutes
as Mimi Howell
1930
5.7
The Runaway Bride
as Mary Gray
1930
5.0
Show of Shows
as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
1929
5.5
The Woman from Hell
as Dee Renaud
1929
0.0
New Year's Eve
as Marjorie Ware
1929
0.0
Romance of the Underworld
as Judith Andrews
1928
4.5
Dry Martini
as Elizabeth Quimby
1928
0.0
Heart to Heart
as Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
1928
0.0
3-Ring Marriage
as Anna
1928
0.0
Dressed to Kill
as Jeanne
1928
0.0
Sailors' Wives
as Carol Trent
1928
0.0
No Place to Go
as Sally Montgomery
1927
0.0
The Rough Riders
as Dolly
1927
4.0
Rose of the Golden West
as Elena
1927
0.0
Two Arabian Knights
as Mirza
1927
6.0
The Sunset Derby
as Molly Gibson
1927
0.0
The Sea Tiger
as Amy Cortissos
1927
0.0
Forever After
as Jennie Clayton
1926
0.0
Don Juan
as Adriana della Varnese
1926
6.5
The Wise Guy
as Mary
1926
0.0
High Steppers
as Audrey Nye
1926
0.0
Scarlet Saint
as Fidele Tridon
1925
0.0
The Pace That Thrills
as Doris
1925
0.0
Don Q Son of Zorro
as Dolores de Muro
1925
6.6
Playing with Souls
as Margo
1925
0.0
Enticement
as Leonore Bewlay
1925
0.0
Oh, Doctor!
as Dolores Hicks
1925
5.7
Inez from Hollywood
as Fay Bartholdi
1924
0.0
The Price of a Party
as Alice Barrows
1924
0.0
To the Ladies
as Undetermined Secondary Role
1924
0.0
Unguarded Women
as Helen Castle
1924
0.0
The Fighting American
as Mary Brainard
1924
5.7
Beau Brummel
as Lady Margery Alvanley
1924
6.8
The Fighting Coward
as Lucy
1924
4.8
Woman-Proof
as Violet Lynwood
1923
0.0
The Marriage Maker
as Vivian Hope-Clarke
1923
0.0
Puritan Passions
as Rachel
1923
0.0
Hollywood
as Mary Astor
1923
7.0
The Bright Shawl
as Narcissa Escobar
1923
0.0
Success
as Rose Randolph
1923
0.0
Second Fiddle
as Polly Crawford
1923
0.0
The Rapids
as Elsie Worden
1922
0.0
The Man Who Played God
as Young Woman
1922
0.0
🎬
Hope
as Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
1922
0.0
John Smith
as Irene Mason
1922
0.0
🎬
The Young Painter
as Helen Seymour
1922
0.0
🎬
The Angelus
as Bit Part
1922
0.0
🎬
Wings of the Border
1921
0.0
The Beggar Maid
as Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
1921
5.5
🎬
My Lady o' the Pines
as Norah Collison
1921
4.0
Sentimental Tommy
1921
4.0
🎬
Brother of the Bear
as Marcia Harthorn
1921
0.0
🎬
Bullets or Ballots
as Bit Part
1921
0.0