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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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: "...that when 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.
Movie | The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird | Self (archive footage) | 2006-10-03 |
Movie | Bogart: The Untold Story | Self (archive footage) | 1997-01-05 |
Series | Hollywood | Self | 1980-01-08 |
Movie | That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 |
Movie | Hollywood My Home Town | Self (archive footage) | 1965-12-31 |
Movie | Youngblood Hawke | Irene Perry | 1964-11-04 |
Movie | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Jewel Mayhew | 1964-12-15 |
Movie | Hollywood Without Make-Up | Self (archive footage) | 1963-07-01 |
Series | Burke's Law | Unknown | 1963-09-20 |
Series | Ben Casey | Unknown | 1961-10-02 |
Movie | Return to Peyton Place | Mrs. Roberta Carter | 1961-05-05 |
Series | Dr. Kildare | Unknown | 1961-09-27 |
Series | Thriller | Unknown | 1960-09-13 |
Series | Rawhide | Unknown | 1959-01-09 |
Movie | A Stranger in My Arms | Virgilnie Beasley | 1959-03-03 |
Movie | This Happy Feeling | Mrs. Tremaine | 1958-06-18 |
Movie | The Devil's Hairpin | Mrs. Jargin | 1957-10-04 |
Movie | The Power and the Prize | Mrs. George Salt | 1956-09-26 |
Movie | A Kiss Before Dying | Mrs. Corliss | 1956-04-20 |
Series | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Unknown | 1956-10-05 |
Series | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown | 1955-10-02 |
Series | Climax! | Unknown | 1954-10-07 |
Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
Movie | Act of Violence | Pat | 1949-01-22 |
Movie | Any Number Can Play | Ada | 1949-07-15 |
Movie | Little Women | Marmee | 1949-03-10 |
Series | Studio One | Unknown | 1948-11-07 |
Movie | Fiesta | Señora Morales | 1947-06-12 |
Movie | Desert Fury | Fritzi Haller | 1947-08-15 |
Movie | Cass Timberlane | Queenie Havock | 1947-11-06 |
Movie | Cynthia | Louise Bishop | 1947-08-29 |
Movie | Claudia and David | Elizabeth Van Doren | 1946-02-25 |
Movie | Okay for Sound | Adriana (archive footage) | 1946-09-07 |
Movie | Meet Me in St. Louis | Mrs. Anna Smith | 1944-11-28 |
Movie | Blonde Fever | Delilah Donay | 1944-12-05 |
Movie | Young Ideas | Josephine Evans | 1943-08-02 |
Movie | Thousands Cheer | Hyllary Jones | 1943-09-13 |
Movie | Across the Pacific | Alberta Marlow | 1942-09-04 |
Movie | The Palm Beach Story | The Princess Centimillia | 1942-08-28 |
Movie | The Great Lie | Sandra Kovak | 1941-04-05 |
Movie | Breakdowns of 1941 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1941-11-14 |
Movie | The Maltese Falcon | Brigid O'Shaughnessy | 1941-10-18 |
Movie | Turnabout | Marion Manning | 1940-05-17 |
Movie | Brigham Young | Mary Ann Young | 1940-09-27 |
Movie | Midnight | Helene Flammarion | 1939-03-24 |
Movie | No Time To Marry | Kay McGowan | 1938-02-05 |
Movie | Paradise for Three | Mrs. Irene Mallebre | 1938-06-04 |
Movie | There's Always a Woman | Lola Fraser | 1938-04-20 |
Movie | Listen, Darling | Dottie Wingate | 1938-10-21 |
Movie | Woman Against Woman | Cynthia Holland | 1938-06-24 |
Movie | The Prisoner of Zenda | Antoinette de Mauban | 1937-09-03 |
Movie | The Hurricane | Mme. DeLaage | 1937-11-09 |
Movie | And So They Were Married | Edith Farnham | 1936-05-10 |
Movie | Trapped by Television | Barbara 'Bobby' Blake | 1936-06-15 |
Movie | The Murder of Dr. Harrigan | Lillian Cooper | 1936-01-11 |
Movie | Dodsworth | Edith Cortright | 1936-09-23 |
Movie | Lady from Nowhere | Polly Dunlap | 1936-12-23 |
Movie | Straight from the Heart | Marian Henshaw | 1935-03-22 |
Movie | Red Hot Tires | Patricia Sanford | 1935-02-02 |
Movie | Dinky | Martha Daniels | 1935-05-11 |
Movie | Page Miss Glory | Gladys | 1935-09-07 |
Movie | Man of Iron | Vida | 1935-12-21 |
Movie | Upperworld | Hettie Stream | 1934-04-28 |
Movie | Easy to Love | Charlotte | 1934-01-13 |
Movie | Return of the Terror | Olga Morgan | 1934-07-07 |
Movie | The Hollywood Gad-About | Self | 1934-10-04 |
Movie | The Man with Two Faces | Jessica Wells | 1934-08-04 |
Movie | I Am a Thief | Odette Mauclair | 1934-11-24 |
Movie | The Case of the Howling Dog | Bessie Foley | 1934-09-22 |
Movie | The Little Giant | Ruth Wayburn | 1933-05-20 |
Movie | The Kennel Murder Case | Hilda Lake | 1933-10-28 |
Movie | Jennie Gerhardt | Letty Pace | 1933-06-08 |
Movie | Convention City | Arlene Dale | 1933-12-14 |
Movie | The World Changes | Virginia Claffin Nordholm | 1933-11-25 |
Movie | The Lost Squadron | Follette Marsh | 1932-03-12 |
Movie | Those We Love | May Ballard | 1932-09-11 |
Movie | A Successful Calamity | Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton | 1932-09-17 |
Movie | Red Dust | Barbara "Babs" Willis | 1932-10-22 |
Movie | The Royal Bed | Princess Anne | 1931-01-15 |
Movie | Behind Office Doors | Mary Linden | 1931-03-15 |
Movie | Other Men's Women | Lily Kulper | 1931-01-17 |
Movie | The Sin Ship | Frisco Kitty | 1931-04-18 |
Movie | Smart Woman | Nancy Gibson | 1931-09-12 |
Movie | Men of Chance | Marthe | 1931-12-26 |
Movie | The Runaway Bride | Mary Gray | 1930-05-04 |
Movie | Ladies Love Brutes | Mimi Howell | 1930-05-14 |
Movie | The Lash | Dona Rosita Garcia | 1930-12-14 |
Movie | Holiday | Julia Seton | 1930-07-03 |
Movie | The Woman from Hell | Dee Renaud | 1929-04-20 |
Movie | Show of Shows | Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited) | 1929-11-21 |
Movie | Dressed to Kill | Jeanne | 1928-03-17 |
Movie | Sailors' Wives | Carol Trent | 1928-01-22 |
Movie | 3-Ring Marriage | Anna | 1928-06-10 |
Movie | Heart to Heart | Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie | 1928-07-22 |
Movie | Romance of the Underworld | Judith Andrews | 1928-11-10 |
Movie | Dry Martini | Elizabeth Quimby | 1928-10-06 |
Movie | The Sunset Derby | Molly Gibson | 1927-06-05 |
Movie | Two Arabian Knights | Mirza | 1927-09-23 |
Movie | The Sea Tiger | Amy Cortissos | 1927-02-27 |
Movie | No Place to Go | Sally Montgomery | 1927-10-30 |
Movie | Rose of the Golden West | Elena | 1927-09-25 |
Movie | The Rough Riders | Dolly | 1927-09-30 |
Movie | Don Juan | Adriana della Varnese | 1926-08-06 |
Movie | Forever After | Jennie Clayton | 1926-10-24 |
Movie | Oh, Doctor! | Dolores Hicks | 1925-02-23 |
Movie | Enticement | Leonore Bewlay | 1925-03-01 |
Movie | Don Q Son of Zorro | Dolores de Muro | 1925-06-15 |
Movie | Playing with Souls | Margo | 1925-04-30 |
Movie | Scarlet Saint | Fidele Tridon | 1925-11-08 |
Movie | The Fighting American | Mary Brainard | 1924-05-26 |
Movie | The Fighting Coward | Lucy | 1924-03-14 |
Movie | Beau Brummel | Lady Margery Alvanley | 1924-03-30 |
Movie | Unguarded Women | Helen Castle | 1924-06-22 |
Movie | Inez from Hollywood | Fay Bartholdi | 1924-12-14 |
Movie | To the Ladies | Undetermined Secondary Role | 1924-10-06 |
Movie | Success | Rose Randolph | 1923-02-25 |
Movie | Second Fiddle | Polly Crawford | 1923-01-14 |
Movie | Hollywood | Mary Astor | 1923-08-19 |
Movie | The Bright Shawl | Narcissa Escobar | 1923-04-22 |
Movie | Woman-Proof | Violet Lynwood | 1923-10-28 |
Movie | The Marriage Maker | Vivian Hope-Clarke | 1923-09-30 |
Movie | Puritan Passions | Rachel | 1923-09-09 |
Movie | John Smith | Irene Mason | 1922-06-01 |
Movie | The Man Who Played God | Young Woman | 1922-10-01 |
Movie | The Rapids | Elsie Worden | 1922-10-30 |
Movie | Sentimental Tommy | 1921-03-26 | |
Movie | The Beggar Maid | Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid | 1921-09-25 |
Movie | The Scarecrow | (uncredited & cut) | 1920-11-07 |