Mary Astor
Acting • Born 1906-05-03 – Died 1987-09-25
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.
Filmography
160 credits
Meet Me in St. Louis
Movie • 1944
Anna Smith
The Maltese Falcon
Movie • 1941
Brigid O'Shaughnessy
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Movie • 1964
Jewel Mayhew
Dodsworth
Movie • 1936
Edith Cortright
Midnight
Movie • 1939
Helene Flammarion
The Palm Beach Story
Movie • 1942
The Princess Centimillia
Other Men's Women
Movie • 1931
Lily Kulper
Desert Fury
Movie • 1947
Fritzi Haller
Act of Violence
Movie • 1949
Pat
Hollywood
Movie • 1923
Mary Astor
White Shoulders
Movie • 1931
Norma Selbee
The Little Giant
Movie • 1933
Ruth Wayburn
Little Women
Movie • 1949
Marmee
Thousands Cheer
Movie • 1943
Hyllary Jones
The Prisoner of Zenda
Movie • 1937
Antoinette de Mauban
The Great Lie
Movie • 1941
Sandra Kovak
Red Dust
Movie • 1932
Barbara "Babs" Willis
Fiesta
Movie • 1947
Señora Morales
Brother of the Bear
Movie • 1921
Marcia Harthorn
My Lady o' the Pines
Movie • 1921
Norah Collison
The Young Painter
Movie • 1922
Helen Seymour
Wings of the Border
Movie • 1921
Bullets or Ballots
Movie • 1921
Bit Part
Hope
Movie • 1922
Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
John Smith
Movie • 1922
Irene Mason
The Man Who Played God
Movie • 1922
Young Woman
Puritan Passions
Movie • 1923
Rachel
The Angelus
Movie • 1922
Bit Part
To the Ladies
Movie • 1924
Undetermined Secondary Role
The Price of a Party
Movie • 1924
Alice Barrows
Playing with Souls
Movie • 1925
Margo
The Pace That Thrills
Movie • 1925
Doris
No Place to Go
Movie • 1927
Sally Montgomery
The Wise Guy
Movie • 1926
Mary
The Sunset Derby
Movie • 1927
Molly Gibson
Sailors' Wives
Movie • 1928
Carol Trent
New Year's Eve
Movie • 1929
Marjorie Ware
Return of the Terror
Movie • 1934
Olga Morgan
Yesterday and Today
Movie • 1953
(archive footage)
Straight from the Heart
Movie • 1935
Marian Henshaw
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Movie • 1960
Mrs. Leslie
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)
Across the Pacific
Movie • 1942
Alberta Marlow
A Kiss Before Dying
Movie • 1956
Mrs. Corliss
The Kennel Murder Case
Movie • 1933
Hilda Lake
Listen, Darling
Movie • 1938
Dottie Wingate
The Man with Two Faces
Movie • 1934
Jessica Wells
Brigham Young
Movie • 1940
Mary Ann Young
The Hurricane
Movie • 1937
Mme. DeLaage
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Movie • 1936
Lillian Cooper
Don Juan
Movie • 1926
Adriana della Varnese
The Lost Squadron
Movie • 1932
Follette Marsh
Any Number Can Play
Movie • 1949
Ada
Holiday
Movie • 1930
Julia Seton
Youngblood Hawke
Movie • 1964
Irene Perry
Cass Timberlane
Movie • 1947
Queenie Havock
Return to Peyton Place
Movie • 1961
Roberta Carter
Those We Love
Movie • 1932
May Ballard
Turnabout
Movie • 1940
Marion Manning
Don Q Son of Zorro
Movie • 1925
Dolores de Muro
Trapped by Television
Movie • 1936
Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
Blonde Fever
Movie • 1944
Delilah Donay
The Case of the Howling Dog
Movie • 1934
Bessie Foley
Beau Brummel
Movie • 1924
Lady Margery Alvanley
This Happy Feeling
Movie • 1958
Mrs. Tremaine
A Successful Calamity
Movie • 1932
Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
Behind Office Doors
Movie • 1931
Mary Linden
The Royal Bed
Movie • 1931
Princess Anne
Romance of the Underworld
Movie • 1928
Judith Andrews
I Am a Thief
Movie • 1934
Odette Mauclair
There's Always a Woman
Movie • 1938
Lola Fraser
Smart Woman
Movie • 1931
Nancy Gibson
Young Ideas
Movie • 1943
Josephine Evans
Cynthia
Movie • 1947
Louise Bishop
And So They Were Married
Movie • 1936
Edith Farnham
Easy to Love
Movie • 1934
Charlotte
The Power and the Prize
Movie • 1956
Mrs. George Salt
Ladies Love Brutes
Movie • 1930
Mimi Howell
Page Miss Glory
Movie • 1935
Gladys
Men of Chance
Movie • 1931
Marthe
Jennie Gerhardt
Movie • 1933
Letty Pace
Upperworld
Movie • 1934
Hettie Stream
The World Changes
Movie • 1933
Virginia Claffin Nordholm
Oh, Doctor!
Movie • 1925
Dolores Hicks
Claudia and David
Movie • 1946
Elizabeth Van Doren
Dinky
Movie • 1935
Martha Daniels
A Stranger in My Arms
Movie • 1959
Virgilnie Beasley
The Lash
Movie • 1930
Dona Rosita Garcia
Paradise for Three
Movie • 1938
Mrs. Irene Mallebre
Convention City
Movie • 1933
Arlene Dale
The Bright Shawl
Movie • 1923
Narcissa Escobar
Dressed to Kill
Movie • 1928
Jeanne
The Sin Ship
Movie • 1931
Frisco Kitty
The Show of Shows
Movie • 1929
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
The Runaway Bride
Movie • 1930
Mary Gray
Lady from Nowhere
Movie • 1936
Polly Dunlap
Heart to Heart
Movie • 1928
Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
Two Arabian Knights
Movie • 1927
Mirza
The Beggar Maid
Movie • 1921
Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
Red Hot Tires
Movie • 1935
Patricia Sanford
The Sea Tiger
Movie • 1927
Amy Cortissos
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Movie • 1973
Self (archive footage)
Woman Against Woman
Movie • 1938
Cynthia Holland
The Woman from Hell
Movie • 1929
Dee Renaud
The Devil's Hairpin
Movie • 1957
Mrs. Jargin
Scarlet Saint
Movie • 1925
Fidele Tridon
Man of Iron
Movie • 1935
Vida
No Time to Marry
Movie • 1938
Kay McGowan
The Ninth Day
Movie • 1957
The Rough Riders
Movie • 1927
Dolly
Breakdowns of 1941
Movie • 1941
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dry Martini
Movie • 1928
Elizabeth Quimby
The Thief
Movie • 1955
Isabelle Lagarde
Sentimental Tommy
Movie • 1921
The Hollywood Gad-About
Movie • 1934
Self
Second Fiddle
Movie • 1923
Polly Crawford
Rose of the Golden West
Movie • 1927
Elena
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie • 1976
(archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story
Movie • 1997
Self (archive footage)
Enticement
Movie • 1925
Leonore Bewlay
The Marriage Maker
Movie • 1923
Vivian Hope-Clarke
The Fighting Coward
Movie • 1924
Lucy
Success
Movie • 1923
Rose Randolph
3-Ring Marriage
Movie • 1928
Anna
Woman-Proof
Movie • 1923
Violet Lynwood
Forever After
Movie • 1926
Jennie Clayton
Okay for Sound
Movie • 1946
Adriana (archive footage)
The Fighting American
Movie • 1924
Mary Brainard
The Rapids
Movie • 1922
Elsie Worden
High Steppers
Movie • 1926
Audrey Nye
Inez from Hollywood
Movie • 1924
Fay Bartholdi
Unguarded Women
Movie • 1924
Helen Castle
Journey to the Day
Movie • 1960
Helen May Whitfield
The Littlest Enemy
Movie • 1958
Mrs. Wickens
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Florence Roberts
Studio One
TV • 1948
Ruth Sparling
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Bea Hicks
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Mrs. Fenimore
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Emma Cardwell
Thriller
TV • 1960
Rose French
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Margaret Eliot
Climax!
TV • 1954
Mrs. Harriss
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
Ben Casey
TV • 1961
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Norma Desmond
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Sarah Simmons
Playwrights '56
TV • 1955
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Martha Lantzinge
The Defenders
TV • 1961
Flora Goode
The United States Steel Hour
TV • 1953
Isabelle Lagarde
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Aunt Frances
Producers' Showcase
TV • 1954
Nancy Blake
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Mildred Le Brun
Hollywood
TV • 1980
Self
Checkmate
TV • 1960
Esther Brack
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Grace Dolan
Studio One
TV • 1948
Harriet Brand
Climax!
TV • 1954
Ethel Allen
Climax!
TV • 1954
Martha
Climax!
TV • 1954
Clarissa Bowman