Acting
Mary Astor
EN, XX cinema · 135 credits
Born
3 May 1906
Died
25 September 1987 (aged 81)
Birthplace
Quincy, Illinois, USA
Also known as Μαίρη Άστορ · Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke
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
Filmography
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
as Self (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story
as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
as Self (archive footage)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
as Jewel Mayhew
Youngblood Hawke
as Irene Perry
Return to Peyton Place
as Roberta Carter
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
as Mrs. Leslie
Journey to the Day
as Helen May Whitfield
A Stranger in My Arms
as Virgilnie Beasley
This Happy Feeling
as Mrs. Tremaine
The Littlest Enemy
1958
The Littlest Enemy
as Mrs. Wickens
The Devil's Hairpin
as Mrs. Jargin
The Ninth Day
as Virginia Jackson
The Troublemakers
1957
The Troublemakers
as Mattie Gerrity
A Kiss Before Dying
as Mrs. Corliss
The Power and the Prize
as Mrs. George Salt
The Thief
as Isabelle Lagarde
Yesterday and Today
as (archive footage)
Little Women
as Marmee
Desert Fury
as Fritzi Haller
Fiesta
as Señora Morales
Cass Timberlane
as Queenie Havock
Cynthia
as Louise Bishop
Claudia and David
as Elizabeth Van Doren
Okay for Sound
as Adriana (archive footage)
Meet Me in St. Louis
as Anna Smith
Blonde Fever
as Delilah Donay
Thousands Cheer
as Hyllary Jones
Young Ideas
as Josephine Evans
The Palm Beach Story
as The Princess Centimillia
Across the Pacific
as Alberta Marlow
The Maltese Falcon
as Brigid O'Shaughnessy
The Great Lie
as Sandra Kovak
Breakdowns of 1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brigham Young
as Mary Ann Young
Turnabout
as Marion Manning
Midnight
as Helene Flammarion
Listen, Darling
as Dottie Wingate
There's Always a Woman
as Lola Fraser
Paradise for Three
as Mrs. Irene Mallebre
Woman Against Woman
as Cynthia Holland
No Time to Marry
as Kay McGowan
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Antoinette de Mauban
The Hurricane
as Mme. DeLaage
Dodsworth
as Edith Cortright
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
as Lillian Cooper
Trapped by Television
as Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
And So They Were Married
as Edith Farnham
Lady from Nowhere
as Polly Dunlap
Straight from the Heart
as Marian Henshaw
Page Miss Glory
as Gladys
Dinky
as Martha Daniels
Red Hot Tires
as Patricia Sanford
Man of Iron
as Vida
Return of the Terror
as Olga Morgan
The Man with Two Faces
as Jessica Wells
The Case of the Howling Dog
as Bessie Foley
I Am a Thief
as Odette Mauclair
Easy to Love
as Charlotte
Upperworld
as Hettie Stream
The Little Giant
as Ruth Wayburn
The Kennel Murder Case
as Hilda Lake
Jennie Gerhardt
as Letty Pace
The World Changes
as Virginia Claffin Nordholm
Convention City
as Arlene Dale
Red Dust
as Barbara "Babs" Willis
The Lost Squadron
as Follette Marsh
Those We Love
as May Ballard
A Successful Calamity
as Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
Other Men's Women
as Lily Kulper
White Shoulders
as Norma Selbee
Behind Office Doors
as Mary Linden
The Royal Bed
as Princess Anne
Smart Woman
as Nancy Gibson
Men of Chance
as Marthe
The Sin Ship
as Frisco Kitty
Holiday
as Julia Seton
Ladies Love Brutes
as Mimi Howell
The Lash
as Dona Rosita Garcia
The Runaway Bride
as Mary Gray
New Year's Eve
as Marjorie Ware
The Show of Shows
as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
The Woman from Hell
as Dee Renaud
Sailors' Wives
as Carol Trent
Romance of the Underworld
as Judith Andrews
Dressed to Kill
as Jeanne
Heart to Heart
as Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
Dry Martini
as Elizabeth Quimby
No Place to Go
as Sally Montgomery
The Sunset Derby
as Molly Gibson
Two Arabian Knights
as Mirza
The Sea Tiger
as Amy Cortissos
The Rough Riders
as Dolly
The Wise Guy
as Mary
Don Juan
as Adriana della Varnese
Forever After
as Jennie Clayton
High Steppers
as Audrey Nye
Playing with Souls
as Margo
Don Q Son of Zorro
as Dolores de Muro
Oh, Doctor!
as Dolores Hicks
Scarlet Saint
as Fidele Tridon
Enticement
as Leonore Bewlay
To the Ladies
as Undetermined Secondary Role
The Price of a Party
as Alice Barrows
Beau Brummel
as Lady Margery Alvanley
The Fighting American
as Mary Brainard
Inez from Hollywood
as Fay Bartholdi
Unguarded Women
as Helen Castle
Hollywood
as Mary Astor
Puritan Passions
as Rachel
The Bright Shawl
as Narcissa Escobar
Second Fiddle
as Polly Crawford
The Marriage Maker
as Vivian Hope-Clarke
Success
as Rose Randolph
Woman-Proof
as Violet Lynwood
The Young Painter
as Helen Seymour
Hope
as Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
John Smith
as Irene Mason
The Man Who Played God
as Young Woman
The Angelus
1922
The Angelus
as Bit Part
The Rapids
as Elsie Worden
Brother of the Bear
1921
Brother of the Bear
as Marcia Harthorn
My Lady o' the Pines
1921
My Lady o' the Pines
as Norah Collison
The Beggar Maid
as Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
