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)
Youngblood Hawke
as Irene Perry
(1964)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
as Jewel Mayhew
(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)
Fiesta
as Señora Morales
(1947)
Cass Timberlane
as Queenie Havock
(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)
Across the Pacific
as Alberta Marlow
(1942)
The Palm Beach Story
as The Princess Centimillia
(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)
Turnabout
as Marion Manning
(1940)
Brigham Young
as Mary Ann Young
(1939)
Midnight
as Helene Flammarion
(1938)
There's Always a Woman
as Lola Fraser
(1938)
Paradise for Three
as Mrs. Irene Mallebre
(1938)
Woman Against Woman
as Cynthia Holland
(1938)
Listen, Darling
as Dottie Wingate
(1938)
No Time to Marry
as Kay McGowan
(1937)
The Hurricane
as Mme. DeLaage
(1937)
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Antoinette de Mauban
(1936)
Trapped by Television
as Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
(1936)
Lady from Nowhere
as Polly Dunlap
(1936)
Dodsworth
as Edith Cortright
(1936)
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
as Lillian Cooper
(1936)
And So They Were Married
as Edith Farnham
(1935)
Man of Iron
as Vida
(1935)
Dinky
as Martha Daniels
(1935)
Straight from the Heart
as Marian Henshaw
(1935)
Page Miss Glory
as Gladys
(1935)
Red Hot Tires
as Patricia Sanford
(1934)
The Case of the Howling Dog
as Bessie Foley
(1934)
Upperworld
as Hettie Stream
(1934)
Easy to Love
as Charlotte
(1934)
Return of the Terror
as Olga Morgan
(1934)
The Hollywood Gad-About
as Self
(1934)
The Man with Two Faces
as Jessica Wells
(1934)
I Am a Thief
as Odette Mauclair
(1933)
The Kennel Murder Case
as Hilda Lake
(1933)
The Little Giant
as Ruth Wayburn
(1933)
Jennie Gerhardt
as Letty Pace
(1933)
Convention City
as Arlene Dale
(1933)
The World Changes
as Virginia Claffin Nordholm
(1932)
The Lost Squadron
as Follette Marsh
(1932)
A Successful Calamity
as Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
(1932)
Those We Love
as May Ballard
(1932)
Red Dust
as Barbara "Babs" Willis
(1931)
Behind Office Doors
as Mary Linden
(1931)
The Sin Ship
as Frisco Kitty
(1931)
The Royal Bed
as Princess Anne
(1931)
Smart Woman
as Nancy Gibson
(1931)
Men of Chance
as Marthe
(1931)
Other Men's Women
as Lily Kulper
(1931)
White Shoulders
as Norma Selbee
(1930)
Holiday
as Julia Seton
(1930)
The Runaway Bride
as Mary Gray
(1930)
The Lash
as Dona Rosita Garcia
(1930)
Ladies Love Brutes
as Mimi Howell
(1929)
The 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)
Heart to Heart
as Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
(1928)
Dry Martini
as Elizabeth Quimby
(1928)
Dressed to Kill
as Jeanne
(1928)
Sailors' Wives
as Carol Trent
(1928)
3-Ring Marriage
as Anna
(1928)
Romance of the Underworld
as Judith Andrews
(1927)
No Place to Go
as Sally Montgomery
(1927)
The Sunset Derby
as Molly Gibson
(1927)
Rose of the Golden West
as Elena
(1927)
Two Arabian Knights
as Mirza
(1927)
The Rough Riders
as Dolly
(1927)
The Sea Tiger
as Amy Cortissos
(1926)
Forever After
as Jennie Clayton
(1926)
High Steppers
as Audrey Nye
(1926)
Don Juan
as Adriana della Varnese
(1926)
The Wise Guy
as Mary
(1925)
Scarlet Saint
as Fidele Tridon
(1925)
Enticement
as Leonore Bewlay
(1925)
Don Q Son of Zorro
as Dolores de Muro
(1925)
Playing with Souls
as Margo
(1925)
The Pace That Thrills
as Doris
(1925)
Oh, Doctor!
as Dolores Hicks
(1924)
Inez from Hollywood
as Fay Bartholdi
(1924)
The Price of a Party
as Alice Barrows
(1924)
Beau Brummel
as Lady Margery Alvanley
(1924)
The Fighting American
as Mary Brainard
(1924)
To the Ladies
as Undetermined Secondary Role
(1924)
The Fighting Coward
as Lucy
(1924)
Unguarded Women
as Helen Castle
(1923)
Success
as Rose Randolph
(1923)
Hollywood
as Mary Astor
(1923)
Second Fiddle
as Polly Crawford
(1923)
The Marriage Maker
as Vivian Hope-Clarke
(1923)
Puritan Passions
as Rachel
(1923)
The Bright Shawl
as Narcissa Escobar
(1923)
Woman-Proof
as Violet Lynwood
(1922)
The Man Who Played God
as Young Woman
(1922)
John Smith
as Irene Mason
(1922)
The Young Painter
as Helen Seymour
(1922)
The Rapids
as Elsie Worden
(1922)
Hope
as Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
(1922)
The Angelus
as Bit Part
(1921)
Brother of the Bear
as Marcia Harthorn
(1921)
(1921)
My Lady o' the Pines
as Norah Collison
(1921)
The Beggar Maid
as Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
(1921)
(1921)
Bullets or Ballots
as Bit Part