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. 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
Credits
- 2006 · The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird as Self (archive footage)
- 1997 · Bogart: The Untold Story as Self (archive footage)
- 1980 · Hollywood as Self
- 1976 · That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
- 1973 · The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli as Self (archive footage)
- 1964 · Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte as Jewel Mayhew
- 1964 · Youngblood Hawke as Irene Perry
- 1963 · Burke's Law as Florence Roberts
- 1961 · Ben Casey as
- 1961 · Dr. Kildare as Martha Lantzinge
- 1961 · Dr. Kildare as Aunt Frances
- 1961 · The Defenders as Flora Goode
- 1961 · Return to Peyton Place as Mrs. Roberta Carter
- 1960 · Checkmate as Esther Brack
- 1960 · Thriller as Rose French
- 1960 · The Snows of Kilimanjaro as Mrs. Leslie
- 1959 · A Stranger in My Arms as Virgilnie Beasley
- 1959 · Rawhide as Emma Cardwell
- 1958 · This Happy Feeling as Mrs. Tremaine
- 1957 · The Devil's Hairpin as Mrs. Jargin
- 1957 · The Ninth Day as
- 1956 · Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Sarah Simmons
- 1956 · The Power and the Prize as Mrs. George Salt
- 1956 · A Kiss Before Dying as Mrs. Corliss
- 1955 · Playwrights '56 as
- 1955 · Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Mrs. Fenimore
- 1955 · Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Grace Dolan
- 1955 · The Thief as Isabelle Lagarde
- 1954 · Producers' Showcase as Nancy Blake
- 1954 · Climax! as Mrs. Harriss
- 1954 · Climax! as Ethel Allen
- 1954 · Climax! as Martha
- 1954 · Climax! as Clarissa Bowman
- 1953 · Yesterday and Today as (archive footage)
- 1953 · The United States Steel Hour as Isabelle Lagarde
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as Bea Hicks
- 1950 · Lux Video Theatre as Margaret Eliot
- 1950 · Lux Video Theatre as Mildred Le Brun
- 1950 · Robert Montgomery Presents as Norma Desmond
- 1949 · Any Number Can Play as Ada
- 1949 · Little Women as Marmee
- 1949 · Act of Violence as Pat
- 1948 · Studio One as Ruth Sparling
- 1948 · Studio One as Harriet Brand
- 1948 · The Philco Television Playhouse as
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self (archive footage)
- 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 · Breakdowns of 1941 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 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 Hollywood Gad-About as Self
- 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 · 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 · Wings of the Border as
- 1921 · The Beggar Maid as Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
- 1921 · My Lady o' the Pines as Norah Collison
- 1921 · Sentimental Tommy as
- 1921 · Brother of the Bear as Marcia Harthorn
- 1921 · Bullets or Ballots as Bit Part