Mary Astor
Acting
1906-05-03 · Quincy, Illinois, USA
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
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
2006 · Movie
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997 · Movie
Hollywood
1980 · Series
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · Movie
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973 · Movie
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964 · Movie
Youngblood Hawke
1964 · Movie
Burke's Law
1963 · Series
Ben Casey
1961 · Series
Dr. Kildare
1961 · Series
The Defenders
1961 · Series
Return to Peyton Place
1961 · Movie
Checkmate
1960 · Series
Thriller
1960 · Series
Journey to the Day
1960 · Movie
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1960 · Movie
A Stranger in My Arms
1959 · Movie
Rawhide
1959 · Series
This Happy Feeling
1958 · Movie
The Littlest Enemy
1958 · Movie
The Troublemakers
1957 · Movie
The Devil's Hairpin
1957 · Movie
The Ninth Day
1957 · Movie
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Series
The Power and the Prize
1956 · Movie
A Kiss Before Dying
1956 · Movie
Playwrights '56
1955 · Series
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Series
The Thief
1955 · Movie
Producers' Showcase
1954 · Series
Climax!
1954 · Series
Yesterday and Today
1953 · Movie
The United States Steel Hour
1953 · Series
General Electric Theater
1953 · Series
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Series
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950 · Series
Any Number Can Play
1949 · Movie
Little Women
1949 · Movie
Act of Violence
1949 · Movie
Studio One
1948 · Series
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · Series
Cass Timberlane
1947 · Movie
Cynthia
1947 · Movie
Desert Fury
1947 · Movie
Fiesta
1947 · Movie
Okay for Sound
1946 · Movie
Claudia and David
1946 · Movie
Blonde Fever
1944 · Movie
Meet Me in St. Louis
1944 · Movie
Thousands Cheer
1943 · Movie
Young Ideas
1943 · Movie
Across the Pacific
1942 · Movie
The Palm Beach Story
1942 · Movie
Breakdowns of 1941
1941 · Movie
The Maltese Falcon
1941 · Movie
The Great Lie
1941 · Movie
Brigham Young
1940 · Movie
Turnabout
1940 · Movie
Midnight
1939 · Movie
Listen, Darling
1938 · Movie
Woman Against Woman
1938 · Movie
Paradise for Three
1938 · Movie
There's Always a Woman
1938 · Movie
No Time to Marry
1938 · Movie
The Hurricane
1937 · Movie
The Prisoner of Zenda
1937 · Movie
Lady from Nowhere
1936 · Movie
Dodsworth
1936 · Movie
Trapped by Television
1936 · Movie
And So They Were Married
1936 · Movie
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
1936 · Movie
Man of Iron
1935 · Movie
Page Miss Glory
1935 · Movie
Dinky
1935 · Movie
Straight from the Heart
1935 · Movie
Red Hot Tires
1935 · Movie
I Am a Thief
1934 · Movie
The Hollywood Gad-About
1934 · Movie
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934 · Movie
The Man with Two Faces
1934 · Movie
Return of the Terror
1934 · Movie
Upperworld
1934 · Movie
Easy to Love
1934 · Movie
Convention City
1933 · Movie
The World Changes
1933 · Movie
The Kennel Murder Case
1933 · Movie
Jennie Gerhardt
1933 · Movie
The Little Giant
1933 · Movie
Red Dust
1932 · Movie
A Successful Calamity
1932 · Movie
Those We Love
1932 · Movie
The Lost Squadron
1932 · Movie
Men of Chance
1931 · Movie
Smart Woman
1931 · Movie
White Shoulders
1931 · Movie
The Sin Ship
1931 · Movie
Behind Office Doors
1931 · Movie
Other Men's Women
1931 · Movie
The Royal Bed
1931 · Movie
The Lash
1930 · Movie
Holiday
1930 · Movie
Ladies Love Brutes
1930 · Movie
The Runaway Bride
1930 · Movie
The Show of Shows
1929 · Movie
The Woman from Hell
1929 · Movie
New Year's Eve
1929 · Movie
Romance of the Underworld
1928 · Movie
Dry Martini
1928 · Movie
Heart to Heart
1928 · Movie
3-Ring Marriage
1928 · Movie
Dressed to Kill
1928 · Movie
Sailors' Wives
1928 · Movie
No Place to Go
1927 · Movie
The Rough Riders
1927 · Movie
Rose of the Golden West
1927 · Movie
Two Arabian Knights
1927 · Movie
The Sunset Derby
1927 · Movie
The Sea Tiger
1927 · Movie
Forever After
1926 · Movie
Don Juan
1926 · Movie
The Wise Guy
1926 · Movie
High Steppers
1926 · Movie
Scarlet Saint
1925 · Movie
The Pace That Thrills
1925 · Movie
Don Q Son of Zorro
1925 · Movie
Playing with Souls
1925 · Movie
Enticement
1925 · Movie
Oh, Doctor!
1925 · Movie
Inez from Hollywood
1924 · Movie
The Price of a Party
1924 · Movie
To the Ladies
1924 · Movie
Unguarded Women
1924 · Movie
The Fighting American
1924 · Movie
Beau Brummel
1924 · Movie
The Fighting Coward
1924 · Movie
Woman-Proof
1923 · Movie
The Marriage Maker
1923 · Movie
Puritan Passions
1923 · Movie
Hollywood
1923 · Movie
The Bright Shawl
1923 · Movie
Success
1923 · Movie
Second Fiddle
1923 · Movie
The Rapids
1922 · Movie
The Man Who Played God
1922 · Movie
Hope
1922 · Movie
John Smith
1922 · Movie
The Young Painter
1922 · Movie
The Angelus
1922 · Movie
Wings of the Border
1921 · Movie
The Beggar Maid
1921 · Movie
My Lady o' the Pines
1921 · Movie
Sentimental Tommy
1921 · Movie
Brother of the Bear
1921 · Movie
Bullets or Ballots
1921 · Movie