Mary Astor
Acting
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.
Born: May 3, 1906
Place of Birth: Quincy, Illinois, USA
Known For
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Jewel Mayhew
as Irene Perry
as Florence Roberts
as Martha Lantzinge
as Aunt Frances
as Flora Goode
as Mrs. Roberta Carter
as Esther Brack
as Rose French
as Helen May Whitfield
as Mrs. Leslie
as Virgilnie Beasley
as Emma Cardwell
as Mrs. Tremaine
as Mrs. Jargin
as Sarah Simmons
as Mrs. George Salt
as Mrs. Corliss
as Mrs. Fenimore
as Grace Dolan
as Isabelle Lagarde
as Mrs. Harriss
as Ethel Allen
as Martha
as Clarissa Bowman
as (archive footage)
as Isabelle Lagarde
as Bea Hicks
as Norma Desmond
as Ada
as Marmee
as Pat
as Ruth Sparling
as Harriet Brand
as Queenie Havock
as Louise Bishop
as Fritzi Haller
as Señora Morales
as Adriana (archive footage)
as Elizabeth Van Doren
as Delilah Donay
as Anna Smith
as Hyllary Jones
as Josephine Evans
as Alberta Marlow
as The Princess Centimillia
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Brigid O'Shaughnessy
as Sandra Kovak
as Mary Ann Young
as Marion Manning
as Helene Flammarion
as Dottie Wingate
as Cynthia Holland
as Mrs. Irene Mallebre
as Lola Fraser
as Kay McGowan
as Mme. DeLaage
as Antoinette de Mauban
as Polly Dunlap
as Edith Cortright
as Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
as Edith Farnham
as Lillian Cooper
as Vida
as Gladys
as Martha Daniels
as Marian Henshaw
as Patricia Sanford
as Odette Mauclair
as Self
as Bessie Foley
as Jessica Wells
as Olga Morgan
as Hettie Stream
as Charlotte
as Arlene Dale
as Virginia Claffin Nordholm
as Hilda Lake
as Letty Pace
as Ruth Wayburn
as Barbara "Babs" Willis
as Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
as May Ballard
as Follette Marsh
as Marthe
as Nancy Gibson
as Norma Selbee
as Frisco Kitty
as Mary Linden
as Lily Kulper
as Princess Anne
as Dona Rosita Garcia
as Julia Seton
as Mimi Howell
as Mary Gray
as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
as Dee Renaud
as Marjorie Ware
as Judith Andrews
as Elizabeth Quimby
as Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
as Anna
as Jeanne
as Carol Trent
as Sally Montgomery
as Dolly
as Elena
as Mirza
as Molly Gibson
as Amy Cortissos
as Jennie Clayton
as Adriana della Varnese
as Mary
as Audrey Nye
as Fidele Tridon
as Doris
as Dolores de Muro
as Margo
as Leonore Bewlay
as Dolores Hicks
as Fay Bartholdi
as Alice Barrows
as Undetermined Secondary Role
as Helen Castle
as Mary Brainard
as Lady Margery Alvanley
as Lucy
as Violet Lynwood
as Vivian Hope-Clarke
as Rachel
as Mary Astor
as Narcissa Escobar
as Rose Randolph
as Polly Crawford
as Elsie Worden
as Young Woman
as Irene Mason
as Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid