Mary Astor
Acting
Born May 3, 1906 ยท 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.
Films (134)
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
2006
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964
Youngblood Hawke
1964
Return to Peyton Place
1961
Journey to the Day
1960
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1960
A Stranger in My Arms
1959
This Happy Feeling
1958
The Littlest Enemy
1958
The Devil's Hairpin
1957
The Ninth Day
1957
The Power and the Prize
1956
A Kiss Before Dying
1956
The Thief
1955
Yesterday and Today
1953
Any Number Can Play
1949
Little Women
1949
Act of Violence
1949
Cass Timberlane
1947
Cynthia
1947
Desert Fury
1947
Fiesta
1947
Okay for Sound
1946
Claudia and David
1946
Blonde Fever
1944
Meet Me in St. Louis
1944
Thousands Cheer
1943
Young Ideas
1943
Across the Pacific
1942
The Palm Beach Story
1942
Breakdowns of 1941
1941
The Maltese Falcon
1941
The Great Lie
1941
Brigham Young
1940
Turnabout
1940
Midnight
1939
Listen, Darling
1938
Woman Against Woman
1938
Paradise for Three
1938
There's Always a Woman
1938
No Time to Marry
1938
The Hurricane
1937
The Prisoner of Zenda
1937
Lady from Nowhere
1936
Dodsworth
1936
Trapped by Television
1936
And So They Were Married
1936
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
1936
Man of Iron
1935
Page Miss Glory
1935
Dinky
1935
Straight from the Heart
1935
Red Hot Tires
1935
I Am a Thief
1934
The Hollywood Gad-About
1934
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934
The Man with Two Faces
1934
Return of the Terror
1934
Upperworld
1934
Easy to Love
1934
Convention City
1933
The World Changes
1933
The Kennel Murder Case
1933
Jennie Gerhardt
1933
The Little Giant
1933
Red Dust
1932
A Successful Calamity
1932
Those We Love
1932
The Lost Squadron
1932
Men of Chance
1931
Smart Woman
1931
White Shoulders
1931
The Sin Ship
1931
Behind Office Doors
1931
Other Men's Women
1931
The Royal Bed
1931
The Lash
1930
Holiday
1930
Ladies Love Brutes
1930
The Runaway Bride
1930
The Show of Shows
1929
The Woman from Hell
1929
New Year's Eve
1929
Romance of the Underworld
1928
Dry Martini
1928
Heart to Heart
1928
3-Ring Marriage
1928
Dressed to Kill
1928
Sailors' Wives
1928
No Place to Go
1927
The Rough Riders
1927
Rose of the Golden West
1927
Two Arabian Knights
1927
The Sunset Derby
1927
The Sea Tiger
1927
Forever After
1926
Don Juan
1926
The Wise Guy
1926
High Steppers
1926
Scarlet Saint
1925
The Pace That Thrills
1925
Don Q Son of Zorro
1925
Playing with Souls
1925
Enticement
1925
Oh, Doctor!
1925
Inez from Hollywood
1924
The Price of a Party
1924
To the Ladies
1924
Unguarded Women
1924
The Fighting American
1924
Beau Brummel
1924
The Fighting Coward
1924
Woman-Proof
1923
The Marriage Maker
1923
Puritan Passions
1923
Hollywood
1923
The Bright Shawl
1923
Success
1923
Second Fiddle
1923
The Rapids
1922
The Man Who Played God
1922
Hope
1922
John Smith
1922
The Young Painter
1922
The Angelus
1922
Wings of the Border
1921
The Beggar Maid
1921
My Lady o' the Pines
1921
Sentimental Tommy
1921
Brother of the Bear
1921
Bullets or Ballots
1921