Mary Astor
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 3, 1906
- Died
- September 25, 1987 (aged 81)
- Birthplace
- Quincy, Illinois, USA
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
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Filmography
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood
TV · as Self · 1 ep
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie · as (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Movie · as Jewel Mayhew
Youngblood Hawke
Movie · as Irene Perry
Burke's Law
TV · as Florence Roberts · 1 ep
Return to Peyton Place
Movie · as Roberta Carter
Ben Casey
TV · 1 ep
Dr. Kildare
TV · as Martha Lantzinge, Aunt Frances · 1 ep
The Defenders
TV · as Flora Goode · 1 ep
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Movie · as Mrs. Leslie
Journey to the Day
Movie · as Helen May Whitfield
Thriller
TV · as Rose French · 1 ep
Checkmate
TV · as Esther Brack · 1 ep
A Stranger in My Arms
Movie · as Virgilnie Beasley
Rawhide
TV · as Emma Cardwell · 1 ep
This Happy Feeling
Movie · as Mrs. Tremaine
The Littlest Enemy
Movie · as Mrs. Wickens
The Devil's Hairpin
Movie · as Mrs. Jargin
The Ninth Day
Movie · as Virginia Jackson
The Troublemakers
Movie · as Mattie Gerrity
A Kiss Before Dying
Movie · as Mrs. Corliss
The Power and the Prize
Movie · as Mrs. George Salt
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV · as Sarah Simmons · 1 ep
The Thief
Movie · as Isabelle Lagarde
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Mrs. Fenimore, Grace Dolan · 1 ep
Playwrights '56
TV · 1 ep
Climax!
TV · as Mrs. Harriss, Ethel Allen, Martha, Clarissa Bowman · 1 ep
Producers' Showcase
TV · as Nancy Blake · 1 ep
Yesterday and Today
Movie · as (archive footage)
General Electric Theater
TV · as Bea Hicks · 1 ep
The United States Steel Hour
TV · as Isabelle Lagarde · 1 ep
Lux Video Theatre
TV · as Margaret Eliot, Mildred Le Brun · 1 ep
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV · as Norma Desmond · 1 ep
Act of Violence
Movie · as Pat
Little Women
Movie · as Marmee
Any Number Can Play
Movie · as Ada
Studio One
TV · as Ruth Sparling, Harriet Brand · 1 ep
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV · 1 ep
Desert Fury
Movie · as Fritzi Haller
Fiesta
Movie · as Señora Morales
Cass Timberlane
Movie · as Queenie Havock
Cynthia
Movie · as Louise Bishop
Claudia and David
Movie · as Elizabeth Van Doren
Okay for Sound
Movie · as Adriana (archive footage)
Meet Me in St. Louis
Movie · as Anna Smith
Blonde Fever
Movie · as Delilah Donay
Thousands Cheer
Movie · as Hyllary Jones
Young Ideas
Movie · as Josephine Evans
The Palm Beach Story
Movie · as The Princess Centimillia
Across the Pacific
Movie · as Alberta Marlow
The Maltese Falcon
Movie · as Brigid O'Shaughnessy
The Great Lie
Movie · as Sandra Kovak
Breakdowns of 1941
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brigham Young
Movie · as Mary Ann Young
Turnabout
Movie · as Marion Manning
Midnight
Movie · as Helene Flammarion
Listen, Darling
Movie · as Dottie Wingate
There's Always a Woman
Movie · as Lola Fraser
Paradise for Three
Movie · as Mrs. Irene Mallebre
Woman Against Woman
Movie · as Cynthia Holland
No Time to Marry
Movie · as Kay McGowan
The Prisoner of Zenda
Movie · as Antoinette de Mauban
The Hurricane
Movie · as Mme. DeLaage
Dodsworth
Movie · as Edith Cortright
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Movie · as Lillian Cooper
Trapped by Television
Movie · as Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
And So They Were Married
Movie · as Edith Farnham
Lady from Nowhere
Movie · as Polly Dunlap
Straight from the Heart
Movie · as Marian Henshaw
Page Miss Glory
Movie · as Gladys
Dinky
Movie · as Martha Daniels
Red Hot Tires
Movie · as Patricia Sanford
Man of Iron
Movie · as Vida
Return of the Terror
Movie · as Olga Morgan
The Man with Two Faces
Movie · as Jessica Wells
The Case of the Howling Dog
Movie · as Bessie Foley
I Am a Thief
Movie · as Odette Mauclair
Easy to Love
Movie · as Charlotte
Upperworld
Movie · as Hettie Stream
The Hollywood Gad-About
Movie · as Self
The Little Giant
Movie · as Ruth Wayburn
The Kennel Murder Case
Movie · as Hilda Lake
Jennie Gerhardt
Movie · as Letty Pace
The World Changes
Movie · as Virginia Claffin Nordholm
Convention City
Movie · as Arlene Dale
Red Dust
Movie · as Barbara "Babs" Willis
The Lost Squadron
Movie · as Follette Marsh
Those We Love
Movie · as May Ballard
A Successful Calamity
Movie · as Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
Other Men's Women
Movie · as Lily Kulper
White Shoulders
Movie · as Norma Selbee
Behind Office Doors
Movie · as Mary Linden
The Royal Bed
Movie · as Princess Anne
Smart Woman
Movie · as Nancy Gibson
Men of Chance
Movie · as Marthe
The Sin Ship
Movie · as Frisco Kitty
Holiday
Movie · as Julia Seton
Ladies Love Brutes
Movie · as Mimi Howell
The Lash
Movie · as Dona Rosita Garcia
The Runaway Bride
Movie · as Mary Gray
New Year's Eve
Movie · as Marjorie Ware
The Show of Shows
Movie · as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
The Woman from Hell
Movie · as Dee Renaud
Sailors' Wives
Movie · as Carol Trent
Romance of the Underworld
Movie · as Judith Andrews
Dressed to Kill
Movie · as Jeanne
Heart to Heart
Movie · as Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
Dry Martini
Movie · as Elizabeth Quimby
3-Ring Marriage
Movie · as Anna
No Place to Go
Movie · as Sally Montgomery
The Sunset Derby
Movie · as Molly Gibson
Two Arabian Knights
Movie · as Mirza
The Sea Tiger
Movie · as Amy Cortissos
The Rough Riders
Movie · as Dolly
Rose of the Golden West
Movie · as Elena
The Wise Guy
Movie · as Mary
Don Juan
Movie · as Adriana della Varnese
Forever After
Movie · as Jennie Clayton
High Steppers
Movie · as Audrey Nye
Playing with Souls
Movie · as Margo
The Pace That Thrills
Movie · as Doris
Don Q Son of Zorro
Movie · as Dolores de Muro
Oh, Doctor!
Movie · as Dolores Hicks
Scarlet Saint
Movie · as Fidele Tridon
Enticement
Movie · as Leonore Bewlay
To the Ladies
Movie · as Undetermined Secondary Role
The Price of a Party
Movie · as Alice Barrows
Beau Brummel
Movie · as Lady Margery Alvanley
The Fighting Coward
Movie · as Lucy
The Fighting American
Movie · as Mary Brainard
Inez from Hollywood
Movie · as Fay Bartholdi
Unguarded Women
Movie · as Helen Castle
Hollywood
Movie · as Mary Astor
Puritan Passions
Movie · as Rachel
The Bright Shawl
Movie · as Narcissa Escobar
Second Fiddle
Movie · as Polly Crawford
The Marriage Maker
Movie · as Vivian Hope-Clarke
Success
Movie · as Rose Randolph
Woman-Proof
Movie · as Violet Lynwood
The Young Painter
Movie · as Helen Seymour
Hope
Movie · as Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
John Smith
Movie · as Irene Mason
The Man Who Played God
Movie · as Young Woman
The Angelus
Movie · as Bit Part
The Rapids
Movie · as Elsie Worden
Brother of the Bear
Movie · as Marcia Harthorn
My Lady o' the Pines
Movie · as Norah Collison
Wings of the Border
Movie
Bullets or Ballots
Movie · as Bit Part
The Beggar Maid
Movie · as Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
Sentimental Tommy
Movie