Mary Astor

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Quincy, Illinois, USA, 1906-05-03

Died: 1987-09-25

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1921	Bullets or Ballots	Bit Part	0
2	1921	Brother of the Bear	Marcia Harthorn	0
3	1921	Sentimental Tommy		40
4	1921	My Lady o' the Pines	Norah Collison	40
5	1921	The Beggar Maid	Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid	55
6	1921	Wings of the Border		0
7	1922	The Angelus	Bit Part	0
8	1922	The Young Painter	Helen Seymour	0
9	1922	John Smith	Irene Mason	0
10	1922	Hope	Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter	0
11	1922	The Man Who Played God	Young Woman	0
12	1922	The Rapids	Elsie Worden	0
13	1923	Second Fiddle	Polly Crawford	0
14	1923	Success	Rose Randolph	0
15	1923	The Bright Shawl	Narcissa Escobar	0
16	1923	Hollywood	Mary Astor	70
17	1923	Puritan Passions	Rachel	0
18	1923	The Marriage Maker	Vivian Hope-Clarke	0
19	1923	Woman-Proof	Violet Lynwood	0
20	1924	The Fighting Coward	Lucy	48
21	1924	Beau Brummel	Lady Margery Alvanley	68
22	1924	The Fighting American	Mary Brainard	57
23	1924	Unguarded Women	Helen Castle	0
24	1924	To the Ladies	Undetermined Secondary Role	0
25	1924	The Price of a Party	Alice Barrows	0
26	1924	Inez from Hollywood	Fay Bartholdi	0
27	1925	Oh, Doctor!	Dolores Hicks	57
28	1925	Enticement	Leonore Bewlay	0
29	1925	Playing with Souls	Margo	0
30	1925	Don Q Son of Zorro	Dolores de Muro	66
31	1925	The Pace That Thrills	Doris	0
32	1925	Scarlet Saint	Fidele Tridon	0
33	1926	High Steppers	Audrey Nye	0
34	1926	The Wise Guy	Mary	0
35	1926	Don Juan	Adriana della Varnese	65
36	1926	Forever After	Jennie Clayton	0
37	1927	The Sea Tiger	Amy Cortissos	0
38	1927	The Sunset Derby	Molly Gibson	0
39	1927	Two Arabian Knights	Mirza	60
40	1927	Rose of the Golden West	Elena	0
41	1927	The Rough Riders	Dolly	40
42	1927	No Place to Go	Sally Montgomery	0
43	1928	Sailors' Wives	Carol Trent	0
44	1928	Dressed to Kill	Jeanne	0
45	1928	3-Ring Marriage	Anna	0
46	1928	Heart to Heart	Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie	0
47	1928	Dry Martini	Elizabeth Quimby	0
48	1928	Romance of the Underworld	Judith Andrews	45
49	1929	New Year's Eve	Marjorie Ware	0
50	1929	The Woman from Hell	Dee Renaud	0
51	1929	The Show of Shows	Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)	55
52	1930	The Runaway Bride	Mary Gray	50
53	1930	Ladies Love Brutes	Mimi Howell	57
54	1930	Holiday	Julia Seton	62
55	1930	The Lash	Dona Rosita Garcia	53
56	1931	The Royal Bed	Princess Anne	40
57	1931	Other Men's Women	Lily Kulper	57
58	1931	Behind Office Doors	Mary Linden	48
59	1931	The Sin Ship	Frisco Kitty	58
60	1931	White Shoulders	Norma Selbee	0
61	1931	Smart Woman	Nancy Gibson	59
62	1931	Men of Chance	Marthe	58
63	1932	The Lost Squadron	Follette Marsh	63
64	1932	Those We Love	May Ballard	60
65	1932	A Successful Calamity	Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton	52
66	1932	Red Dust	Barbara "Babs" Willis	70
67	1933	The Little Giant	Ruth Wayburn	68
68	1933	Jennie Gerhardt	Letty Pace	40
69	1933	The Kennel Murder Case	Hilda Lake	61
70	1933	The World Changes	Virginia Claffin Nordholm	48
71	1933	Convention City	Arlene Dale	37
72	1934	Easy to Love	Charlotte	51
73	1934	Upperworld	Hettie Stream	63
74	1934	Return of the Terror	Olga Morgan	60
75	1934	The Man with Two Faces	Jessica Wells	66
76	1934	The Case of the Howling Dog	Bessie Foley	65
77	1934	The Hollywood Gad-About	Self	50
78	1934	I Am a Thief	Odette Mauclair	60
79	1935	Red Hot Tires	Patricia Sanford	58
80	1935	Straight from the Heart	Marian Henshaw	0
81	1935	Dinky	Martha Daniels	67
82	1935	Page Miss Glory	Gladys	63
83	1935	Man of Iron	Vida	60
84	1936	The Murder of Dr. Harrigan	Lillian Cooper	56
85	1936	And So They Were Married	Edith Farnham	58
86	1936	Trapped by Television	Barbara 'Bobby' Blake	64
87	1936	Dodsworth	Edith Cortright	71
88	1936	Lady from Nowhere	Polly Dunlap	0
89	1937	The Prisoner of Zenda	Antoinette de Mauban	74
90	1937	The Hurricane	Mme. DeLaage	66
91	1938	No Time to Marry	Kay McGowan	60
92	1938	There's Always a Woman	Lola Fraser	58
93	1938	Paradise for Three	Mrs. Irene Mallebre	68
94	1938	Woman Against Woman	Cynthia Holland	65
95	1938	Listen, Darling	Dottie Wingate	63
96	1939	Midnight	Helene Flammarion	73
97	1940	Turnabout	Marion Manning	60
98	1940	Brigham Young	Mary Ann Young	44
99	1941	The Great Lie	Sandra Kovak	68
100	1941	The Maltese Falcon	Brigid O'Shaughnessy	77
101	1941	Breakdowns of 1941	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	70
102	1942	The Palm Beach Story	The Princess Centimillia	70
103	1942	Across the Pacific	Alberta Marlow	66
104	1943	Young Ideas	Josephine Evans	46
105	1943	Thousands Cheer	Hyllary Jones	64
106	1944	Meet Me in St. Louis	Anna Smith	70
107	1944	Blonde Fever	Delilah Donay	44
108	1946	Claudia and David	Elizabeth Van Doren	60
109	1946	Okay for Sound	Adriana (archive footage)	50
110	1947	Fiesta	Señora Morales	47
111	1947	Desert Fury	Fritzi Haller	60
112	1947	Cynthia	Louise Bishop	59
113	1947	Cass Timberlane	Queenie Havock	59
114	1949	Act of Violence	Pat	69
115	1949	Little Women	Marmee	74
116	1949	Any Number Can Play	Ada	69
117	1953	Yesterday and Today	(archive footage)	0
118	1955	The Thief	Isabelle Lagarde	48
119	1956	A Kiss Before Dying	Mrs. Corliss	62
120	1956	The Power and the Prize	Mrs. George Salt	55
121	1957	The Ninth Day		0
122	1957	The Devil's Hairpin	Mrs. Jargin	50
123	1958	This Happy Feeling	Mrs. Tremaine	38
124	1959	A Stranger in My Arms	Virgilnie Beasley	23
125	1960	The Snows of Kilimanjaro	Mrs. Leslie	0
126	1961	Return to Peyton Place	Mrs. Roberta Carter	67
127	1964	Youngblood Hawke	Irene Perry	61
128	1964	Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte	Jewel Mayhew	73
129	1973	The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli	Self (archive footage)	0
130	1976	That's Entertainment, Part II	(archive footage)	69
131	1997	Bogart: The Untold Story	Self (archive footage)	0
132	2006	The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird	Self (archive footage)	78

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		63
2	1948	Studio One	Ruth Sparling	50
3	1948	Studio One	Harriet Brand	50
4	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Norma Desmond	56
5	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Margaret Eliot	63
6	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Mildred Le Brun	63
7	1953	General Electric Theater	Bea Hicks	63
8	1953	The United States Steel Hour	Isabelle Lagarde	62
9	1954	Climax!	Mrs. Harriss	33
10	1954	Climax!	Ethel Allen	33
11	1954	Climax!	Martha	33
12	1954	Climax!	Clarissa Bowman	33
13	1954	Producers' Showcase	Nancy Blake	65
14	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Mrs. Fenimore	77
15	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Grace Dolan	77
16	1955	Playwrights '56		60
17	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Sarah Simmons	55
18	1959	Rawhide	Emma Cardwell	72
19	1960	Thriller	Rose French	64
20	1960	Checkmate	Esther Brack	41
21	1961	The Defenders	Flora Goode	62
22	1961	Dr. Kildare	Martha Lantzinge	55
23	1961	Dr. Kildare	Aunt Frances	55
24	1961	Ben Casey		56
25	1963	Burke's Law	Florence Roberts	60
26	1980	Hollywood	Self	83

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