Mary Astor
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1906-05-03
Day of Death
1987-09-25 (81 years old)
Place of Birth
Quincy, Illinois, USA
Mary Astor
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
Acting
(2006)
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
as Self (archive footage)
(1997)
Bogart: The Untold Story
as Self (archive footage)
(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
(1961)
Return to Peyton Place
as Mrs. Roberta Carter
(1960)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
as Mrs. Leslie
(1959)
A Stranger in My Arms
as Virgilnie Beasley
(1958)
This Happy Feeling
as Mrs. Tremaine
(1957)
The Devil's Hairpin
as Mrs. Jargin
(1957)
(1956)
A Kiss Before Dying
as Mrs. Corliss
(1956)
The Power and the Prize
as Mrs. George Salt
(1955)
The Thief
as Isabelle Lagarde
(1953)
Yesterday and Today
as (archive footage)
(1949)
Little Women
as Marmee
(1949)
Act of Violence
as Pat
(1949)
Any Number Can Play
as Ada
(1947)
Cynthia
as Louise Bishop
(1947)
Desert Fury
as Fritzi Haller
(1947)
Cass Timberlane
as Queenie Havock
(1947)
Fiesta
as Señora Morales
(1946)
Okay for Sound
as Adriana (archive footage)
(1946)
Claudia and David
as Elizabeth Van Doren
(1944)
Meet Me in St. Louis
as Anna Smith
(1944)
Blonde Fever
as Delilah Donay
(1943)
Thousands Cheer
as Hyllary Jones
(1943)
Young Ideas
as Josephine Evans
(1942)
The Palm Beach Story
as The Princess Centimillia
(1942)
Across the Pacific
as Alberta Marlow
(1941)
The Maltese Falcon
as Brigid O'Shaughnessy
(1941)
The Great Lie
as Sandra Kovak
(1941)
Breakdowns of 1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(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)
There's Always a Woman
as Lola Fraser
(1938)
Paradise for Three
as Mrs. Irene Mallebre
(1938)
No Time to Marry
as Kay McGowan
(1937)
The Hurricane
as Mme. DeLaage
(1937)
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Antoinette de Mauban
(1936)
Dodsworth
as Edith Cortright
(1936)
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
as Lillian Cooper
(1936)
And So They Were Married
as Edith Farnham
(1936)
Trapped by Television
as Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
(1936)
Lady from Nowhere
as Polly Dunlap
(1935)
Dinky
as Martha Daniels
(1935)
Straight from the Heart
as Marian Henshaw
(1935)
Red Hot Tires
as Patricia Sanford
(1935)
Page Miss Glory
as Gladys
(1935)
Man of Iron
as Vida
(1934)
Upperworld
as Hettie Stream
(1934)
The Case of the Howling Dog
as Bessie Foley
(1934)
The Man with Two Faces
as Jessica Wells
(1934)
The Hollywood Gad-About
as Self
(1934)
I Am a Thief
as Odette Mauclair
(1934)
Return of the Terror
as Olga Morgan
(1934)
Easy to Love
as Charlotte
(1933)
The Kennel Murder Case
as Hilda Lake
(1933)
Convention City
as Arlene Dale
(1933)
The Little Giant
as Ruth Wayburn
(1933)
The World Changes
as Virginia Claffin Nordholm
(1933)
Jennie Gerhardt
as Letty Pace
(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)
Behind Office Doors
as Mary Linden
(1931)
Smart Woman
as Nancy Gibson
(1931)
The Sin Ship
as Frisco Kitty
(1931)
Other Men's Women
as Lily Kulper
(1931)
The Royal Bed
as Princess Anne
(1931)
White Shoulders
as Norma Selbee
(1931)
Men of Chance
as Marthe
(1930)
Holiday
as Julia Seton
(1930)
Ladies Love Brutes
as Mimi Howell
(1930)
The Runaway Bride
as Mary Gray
(1930)
The Lash
as Dona Rosita Garcia
(1929)
Show of Shows
as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
(1929)
New Year's Eve
as Marjorie Ware
(1929)
The Woman from Hell
as Dee Renaud
(1928)
Dry Martini
as Elizabeth Quimby
(1928)
Dressed to Kill
as Jeanne
(1928)
Heart to Heart
as Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
(1928)
Sailors' Wives
as Carol Trent
(1928)
Romance of the Underworld
as Judith Andrews
(1928)
3-Ring Marriage
as Anna
(1927)
Two Arabian Knights
as Mirza
(1927)
The Sea Tiger
as Amy Cortissos
(1927)
The Rough Riders
as Dolly
(1927)
No Place to Go
as Sally Montgomery
(1927)
Rose of the Golden West
as Elena
(1927)
The Sunset Derby
as Molly Gibson
(1926)
Don Juan
as Adriana della Varnese
(1926)
High Steppers
as Audrey Nye
(1926)
Forever After
as Jennie Clayton
(1926)
The Wise Guy
as Mary
(1925)
Don Q Son of Zorro
as Dolores de Muro
(1925)
Enticement
as Leonore Bewlay
(1925)
The Pace That Thrills
as Doris
(1925)
Oh, Doctor!
as Dolores Hicks
(1925)
Playing with Souls
as Margo
(1925)
Scarlet Saint
as Fidele Tridon
(1924)
Beau Brummel
as Lady Margery Alvanley
(1924)
The Fighting Coward
as Lucy
(1924)
The Fighting American
as Mary Brainard
(1924)
Unguarded Women
as Helen Castle
(1924)
To the Ladies
as Undetermined Secondary Role
(1924)
The Price of a Party
as Alice Barrows
(1924)
Inez from Hollywood
as Fay Bartholdi
(1923)
Hollywood
as Mary Astor
(1923)
Puritan Passions
as Rachel
(1923)
Success
as Rose Randolph
(1923)
The Marriage Maker
as Vivian Hope-Clarke
(1923)
Woman-Proof
as Violet Lynwood
(1923)
The Bright Shawl
as Narcissa Escobar
(1923)
Second Fiddle
as Polly Crawford
(1922)
Hope
as Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
(1922)
John Smith
as Irene Mason
(1922)
The Man Who Played God
as Young Woman
(1922)
The Rapids
as Elsie Worden
(1922)
The Angelus
as Bit Part
(1922)
The Young Painter
as Helen Seymour
(1921)
(1921)
My Lady o' the Pines
as Norah Collison
(1921)
The Beggar Maid
as Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
(1921)
(1921)
Brother of the Bear
as Marcia Harthorn
(1921)
Bullets or Ballots
as Bit Part