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Mary Astor
Born · May 3, 1906
Died · September 25, 1987 (81 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Quincy, Illinois, USA
Bio
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.
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Self (archive footage)
7.8
2006
Bogart: The Untold Story
Self (archive footage)
0.0
1997
Hollywood
Self · (13 episodes)
8.3
1980
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
6.9
1976
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Self (archive footage)
0.0
1973
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Jewel Mayhew
7.3
1964
Youngblood Hawke
Irene Perry
6.1
1964
Burke's Law
Florence Roberts · (1 episode)
6.0
1963
Ben Casey
(1 episode)
5.6
1961
Dr. Kildare
Martha Lantzinge · (1 episode)
5.5
1961
Dr. Kildare
Aunt Frances · (1 episode)
5.5
1961
The Defenders
Flora Goode · (1 episode)
6.2
1961
Return to Peyton Place
Mrs. Roberta Carter
6.7
1961
Checkmate
Esther Brack · (1 episode)
4.1
1960
Thriller
Rose French · (1 episode)
6.4
1960
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Mrs. Leslie
0.0
1960
A Stranger in My Arms
Virgilnie Beasley
2.3
1959
Rawhide
Emma Cardwell · (1 episode)
7.2
1959
This Happy Feeling
Mrs. Tremaine
3.8
1958
The Devil's Hairpin
Mrs. Jargin
5.0
1957
The Ninth Day
0.0
1957
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Sarah Simmons · (1 episode)
5.5
1956
The Power and the Prize
Mrs. George Salt
5.5
1956
A Kiss Before Dying
Mrs. Corliss
6.2
1956
Playwrights '56
(1 episode)
6.0
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Mrs. Fenimore · (1 episode)
7.7
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Grace Dolan · (1 episode)
7.7
1955
The Thief
Isabelle Lagarde
4.8
1955
Producers' Showcase
Nancy Blake · (1 episode)
6.5
1954
Climax!
Mrs. Harriss · (1 episode)
3.3
1954
Climax!
Ethel Allen · (1 episode)
3.3
1954
Climax!
Martha · (1 episode)
3.3
1954
Climax!
Clarissa Bowman · (1 episode)
3.3
1954
Yesterday and Today
(archive footage)
0.0
1953
The United States Steel Hour
Isabelle Lagarde · (1 episode)
6.2
1953
General Electric Theater
Bea Hicks · (1 episode)
6.3
1953
Lux Video Theatre
Margaret Eliot · (1 episode)
6.3
1950
Lux Video Theatre
Mildred Le Brun · (1 episode)
6.3
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
Norma Desmond · (1 episode)
5.6
1950
Any Number Can Play
Ada
6.9
1949
Little Women
Marmee
7.4
1949
Act of Violence
Pat
6.9
1949
Studio One
Ruth Sparling · (1 episode)
5.0
1948
Studio One
Harriet Brand · (1 episode)
5.0
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
(1 episode)
6.3
1948
Cass Timberlane
Queenie Havock
5.9
1947
Cynthia
Louise Bishop
5.9
1947
Desert Fury
Fritzi Haller
6.0
1947
Fiesta
Señora Morales
4.7
1947
Okay for Sound
Adriana (archive footage)
5.0
1946
Claudia and David
Elizabeth Van Doren
6.0
1946
Blonde Fever
Delilah Donay
4.4
1944
Meet Me in St. Louis
Anna Smith
7.0
1944
Thousands Cheer
Hyllary Jones
6.4
1943
Young Ideas
Josephine Evans
4.6
1943
Across the Pacific
Alberta Marlow
6.6
1942
The Palm Beach Story
The Princess Centimillia
7.0
1942
Breakdowns of 1941
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
7.0
1941
The Maltese Falcon
Brigid O'Shaughnessy
7.7
1941
The Great Lie
Sandra Kovak
6.8
1941
Brigham Young
Mary Ann Young
4.4
1940
Turnabout
Marion Manning
6.0
1940
Midnight
Helene Flammarion
7.4
1939
Listen, Darling
Dottie Wingate
6.3
1938
Woman Against Woman
Cynthia Holland
6.5
1938
Paradise for Three
Mrs. Irene Mallebre
6.8
1938
There's Always a Woman
Lola Fraser
5.8
1938
No Time to Marry
Kay McGowan
6.0
1938
The Hurricane
Mme. DeLaage
6.6
1937
The Prisoner of Zenda
Antoinette de Mauban
7.4
1937
Lady from Nowhere
Polly Dunlap
0.0
1936
Dodsworth
Edith Cortright
7.1
1936
Trapped by Television
Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
6.4
1936
And So They Were Married
Edith Farnham
5.8
1936
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Lillian Cooper
5.6
1936
Man of Iron
Vida
6.0
1935
Page Miss Glory
Gladys
6.3
1935
Dinky
Martha Daniels
6.7
1935
Straight from the Heart
Marian Henshaw
0.0
1935
Red Hot Tires
Patricia Sanford
5.8
1935
I Am a Thief
Odette Mauclair
6.0
1934
The Hollywood Gad-About
Self
5.0
1934
The Case of the Howling Dog
Bessie Foley
6.5
1934
The Man with Two Faces
Jessica Wells
6.5
1934
Return of the Terror
Olga Morgan
6.0
1934
Upperworld
Hettie Stream
6.3
1934
Easy to Love
Charlotte
5.1
1934
Convention City
Arlene Dale
3.5
1933
The World Changes
Virginia Claffin Nordholm
4.8
1933
The Kennel Murder Case
Hilda Lake
6.2
1933
Jennie Gerhardt
Letty Pace
4.0
1933
The Little Giant
Ruth Wayburn
6.8
1933
Red Dust
Barbara "Babs" Willis
7.0
1932
A Successful Calamity
Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
5.2
1932
Those We Love
May Ballard
6.0
1932
The Lost Squadron
Follette Marsh
6.3
1932
Men of Chance
Marthe
5.8
1931
Smart Woman
Nancy Gibson
5.9
1931
White Shoulders
Norma Selbee
0.0
1931
The Sin Ship
Frisco Kitty
5.8
1931
Behind Office Doors
Mary Linden
5.1
1931
Other Men's Women
Lily Kulper
5.7
1931
The Royal Bed
Princess Anne
4.4
1931
The Lash
Dona Rosita Garcia
5.3
1930
Holiday
Julia Seton
6.2
1930
Ladies Love Brutes
Mimi Howell
5.7
1930
The Runaway Bride
Mary Gray
5.0
1930
Show of Shows
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
5.5
1929
The Woman from Hell
Dee Renaud
0.0
1929
New Year's Eve
Marjorie Ware
0.0
1929
Romance of the Underworld
Judith Andrews
4.5
1928
Dry Martini
Elizabeth Quimby
0.0
1928
Heart to Heart
Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
0.0
1928
3-Ring Marriage
Anna
0.0
1928
Dressed to Kill
Jeanne
0.0
1928
Sailors' Wives
Carol Trent
0.0
1928
No Place to Go
Sally Montgomery
0.0
1927
The Rough Riders
Dolly
4.0
1927
Rose of the Golden West
Elena
0.0
1927
Two Arabian Knights
Mirza
6.0
1927
The Sunset Derby
Molly Gibson
0.0
1927
The Sea Tiger
Amy Cortissos
0.0
1927
Forever After
Jennie Clayton
0.0
1926
Don Juan
Adriana della Varnese
6.5
1926
The Wise Guy
Mary
0.0
1926
High Steppers
Audrey Nye
0.0
1926
Scarlet Saint
Fidele Tridon
0.0
1925
The Pace That Thrills
Doris
0.0
1925
Don Q Son of Zorro
Dolores de Muro
6.6
1925
Playing with Souls
Margo
0.0
1925
Enticement
Leonore Bewlay
0.0
1925
Oh, Doctor!
Dolores Hicks
5.7
1925
Inez from Hollywood
Fay Bartholdi
0.0
1924
The Price of a Party
Alice Barrows
0.0
1924
To the Ladies
Undetermined Secondary Role
0.0
1924
Unguarded Women
Helen Castle
0.0
1924
The Fighting American
Mary Brainard
5.7
1924
Beau Brummel
Lady Margery Alvanley
6.8
1924
The Fighting Coward
Lucy
4.8
1924
Woman-Proof
Violet Lynwood
0.0
1923
The Marriage Maker
Vivian Hope-Clarke
0.0
1923
Puritan Passions
Rachel
0.0
1923
Hollywood
Mary Astor
7.0
1923
The Bright Shawl
Narcissa Escobar
0.0
1923
Success
Rose Randolph
0.0
1923
Second Fiddle
Polly Crawford
0.0
1923
The Rapids
Elsie Worden
0.0
1922
The Man Who Played God
Young Woman
0.0
1922
Hope
Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
0.0
1922
John Smith
Irene Mason
0.0
1922
The Young Painter
Helen Seymour
0.0
1922
The Angelus
Bit Part
0.0
1922
Wings of the Border
0.0
1921
The Beggar Maid
Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
5.5
1921
My Lady o' the Pines
Norah Collison
4.0
1921
Sentimental Tommy
4.0
1921
Brother of the Bear
Marcia Harthorn
0.0
1921
Bullets or Ballots
Bit Part
0.0
1921