Mary Astor
Known for Acting · 153 credits
- Born
- 1906-05-03
- Died
- 1987-09-25
- 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.
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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Known For
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Norma Desmond
Climax!
1954
as Mrs. Harriss / Ethel Allen / Martha / Clarissa Bowman
Studio One
1948
as Ruth Sparling / Harriet Brand
Burke's Law
1963
as Florence Roberts
Dr. Kildare
1961
as Martha Lantzinge / Aunt Frances
The United States Steel Hour
1953
as Isabelle Lagarde
TV Shows (19)
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Norma Desmond
Climax!
1954
as Mrs. Harriss / Ethel Allen / Martha / Clarissa Bowman
Studio One
1948
as Ruth Sparling / Harriet Brand
Burke's Law
1963
as Florence Roberts
Dr. Kildare
1961
as Martha Lantzinge / Aunt Frances
The United States Steel Hour
1953
as Isabelle Lagarde
Rawhide
1959
as Emma Cardwell
The Defenders
1961
as Flora Goode
Thriller
1960
as Rose French
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Sarah Simmons
Ben Casey
1961
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Mrs. Fenimore / Grace Dolan
Checkmate
1960
as Esther Brack
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Margaret Eliot / Mildred Le Brun
Producers' Showcase
1954
as Nancy Blake
Playwrights '56
1955
Hollywood
1980
as Self
General Electric Theater
1953
as Bea Hicks
Movies (134)
The Maltese Falcon
1941
as Brigid O'Shaughnessy
Little Women
1949
as Marmee
Cass Timberlane
1947
as Queenie Havock
Meet Me in St. Louis
1944
as Anna Smith
Brigham Young
1940
as Mary Ann Young
Convention City
1933
as Arlene Dale
Sentimental Tommy
1921
White Shoulders
1931
as Norma Selbee
The Thief
1955
as Isabelle Lagarde
Fiesta
1947
as Señora Morales
The Show of Shows
1929
as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964
as Jewel Mayhew
The Rapids
1922
as Elsie Worden
The Fighting American
1924
as Mary Brainard
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
as (archive footage)
Claudia and David
1946
as Elizabeth Van Doren
A Kiss Before Dying
1956
as Mrs. Corliss
Across the Pacific
1942
as Alberta Marlow
Dodsworth
1936
as Edith Cortright
Other Men's Women
1931
as Lily Kulper
The Palm Beach Story
1942
as The Princess Centimillia
Return to Peyton Place
1961
as Roberta Carter
This Happy Feeling
1958
as Mrs. Tremaine
The Hurricane
1937
as Mme. DeLaage
The Kennel Murder Case
1933
as Hilda Lake
Act of Violence
1949
as Pat
Desert Fury
1947
as Fritzi Haller
Youngblood Hawke
1964
as Irene Perry
Midnight
1939
as Helene Flammarion
Breakdowns of 1941
1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Bright Shawl
1923
as Narcissa Escobar
Don Juan
1926
as Adriana della Varnese
The Great Lie
1941
as Sandra Kovak
Any Number Can Play
1949
as Ada
The Woman from Hell
1929
as Dee Renaud
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
2006
as Self (archive footage)
Listen, Darling
1938
as Dottie Wingate
The Prisoner of Zenda
1937
as Antoinette de Mauban
A Stranger in My Arms
1959
as Virgilnie Beasley
Unguarded Women
1924
as Helen Castle
Don Q Son of Zorro
1925
as Dolores de Muro
Blonde Fever
1944
as Delilah Donay
The Little Giant
1933
as Ruth Wayburn
Journey to the Day
1960
as Helen May Whitfield
Thousands Cheer
1943
as Hyllary Jones
I Am a Thief
1934
as Odette Mauclair
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934
as Bessie Foley
The Wise Guy
1926
as Mary
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997
as Self (archive footage)
Oh, Doctor!
1925
as Dolores Hicks
Trapped by Television
1936
as Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
The Man with Two Faces
1934
as Jessica Wells
The Sea Tiger
1927
as Amy Cortissos
Hope
1922
as Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
1936
as Lillian Cooper
Men of Chance
1931
as Marthe
The Lost Squadron
1932
as Follette Marsh
Holiday
1930
as Julia Seton
Straight from the Heart
1935
as Marian Henshaw
The Fighting Coward
1924
as Lucy
A Successful Calamity
1932
as Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
Return of the Terror
1934
as Olga Morgan
Those We Love
1932
as May Ballard
Two Arabian Knights
1927
as Mirza
Jennie Gerhardt
1933
as Letty Pace
Heart to Heart
1928
as Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
There's Always a Woman
1938
as Lola Fraser
The Hollywood Gad-About
1934
as Self
The Power and the Prize
1956
as Mrs. George Salt
Turnabout
1940
as Marion Manning
Beau Brummel
1924
as Lady Margery Alvanley
The Ninth Day
1957
No Time to Marry
1938
as Kay McGowan
Young Ideas
1943
as Josephine Evans
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1960
as Mrs. Leslie
Okay for Sound
1946
as Adriana (archive footage)
The World Changes
1933
as Virginia Claffin Nordholm
Enticement
1925
as Leonore Bewlay
Woman Against Woman
1938
as Cynthia Holland
Page Miss Glory
1935
as Gladys
3-Ring Marriage
1928
as Anna
Red Dust
1932
as Barbara "Babs" Willis
The Beggar Maid
1921
as Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
Smart Woman
1931
as Nancy Gibson
The Royal Bed
1931
as Princess Anne
Man of Iron
1935
as Vida
Paradise for Three
1938
as Mrs. Irene Mallebre
The Man Who Played God
1922
as Young Woman
The Lash
1930
as Dona Rosita Garcia
And So They Were Married
1936
as Edith Farnham
Upperworld
1934
as Hettie Stream
Behind Office Doors
1931
as Mary Linden
The Runaway Bride
1930
as Mary Gray
Dry Martini
1928
as Elizabeth Quimby
Wings of the Border
1921
Easy to Love
1934
as Charlotte
No Place to Go
1927
as Sally Montgomery
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973
as Self (archive footage)
Dinky
1935
as Martha Daniels
Red Hot Tires
1935
as Patricia Sanford
The Littlest Enemy
1958
as Mrs. Wickens
Hollywood
1923
as Mary Astor
The Devil's Hairpin
1957
as Mrs. Jargin
The Price of a Party
1924
as Alice Barrows
Cynthia
1947
as Louise Bishop
The Rough Riders
1927
as Dolly
Inez from Hollywood
1924
as Fay Bartholdi
Woman-Proof
1923
as Violet Lynwood
Yesterday and Today
1953
as (archive footage)
Dressed to Kill
1928
as Jeanne
Lady from Nowhere
1936
as Polly Dunlap
High Steppers
1926
as Audrey Nye
The Sin Ship
1931
as Frisco Kitty
To the Ladies
1924
as Undetermined Secondary Role
Scarlet Saint
1925
as Fidele Tridon
The Sunset Derby
1927
as Molly Gibson
Rose of the Golden West
1927
as Elena
Puritan Passions
1923
as Rachel
The Marriage Maker
1923
as Vivian Hope-Clarke
Ladies Love Brutes
1930
as Mimi Howell
About Mary Astor
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. Ove… With 153 credits spanning from 1921 to 2006, Mary Astor has appeared in 134 films and 19 TV shows.
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- The Maltese Falcon (1941) — as Brigid O'Shaughnessy
- Little Women (1949) — as Marmee
- Cass Timberlane (1947) — as Queenie Havock
- Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) — as Anna Smith
- Brigham Young (1940) — as Mary Ann Young
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