Mary Astor
Acting
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."
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Mary Astor
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Filmography of
Mary Astor
Self (archive footage)
... 2006
Self (archive footage)
... 1997
(archive footage)
... 1976
Self (archive footage)
... 1973
Jewel Mayhew
... 1964
Irene Perry
... 1964
Mrs. Roberta Carter
... 1961
Helen May Whitfield
... 1960
Mrs. Leslie
... 1960
Virgilnie Beasley
... 1959
Mrs. Tremaine
... 1958
Mrs. Jargin
... 1957
... 1957
Mrs. George Salt
... 1956
Mrs. Corliss
... 1956
Isabelle Lagarde
... 1955
(archive footage)
... 1953
... 1949
Marmee
... 1949
Pat
... 1949
Queenie Havock
... 1947
Louise Bishop
... 1947
Fritzi Haller
... 1947
Señora Morales
... 1947
Adriana (archive footage)
... 1946
Elizabeth Van Doren
... 1946
Delilah Donay
... 1944
Anna Smith
... 1944
Hyllary Jones
... 1943
Josephine Evans
... 1943
Alberta Marlow
... 1942
The Princess Centimillia
... 1942
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
... 1941
Brigid O'Shaughnessy
... 1941
Sandra Kovak
... 1941
Mary Ann Young
... 1940
Marion Manning
... 1940
Helene Flammarion
... 1939
Dottie Wingate
... 1938
Cynthia Holland
... 1938
Mrs. Irene Mallebre
... 1938
Lola Fraser
... 1938
Kay McGowan
... 1938
Mme. DeLaage
... 1937
Antoinette de Mauban
... 1937
Polly Dunlap
... 1936
Edith Cortright
... 1936
Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
... 1936
Edith Farnham
... 1936
Lillian Cooper
... 1936
Vida
... 1935
Gladys
... 1935
Martha Daniels
... 1935
Marian Henshaw
... 1935
Patricia Sanford
... 1935
Odette Mauclair
... 1934
... 1934
Bessie Foley
... 1934
Jessica Wells
... 1934
Olga Morgan
... 1934
Hettie Stream
... 1934
Charlotte
... 1934
Arlene Dale
... 1933
Virginia Claffin Nordholm
... 1933
Hilda Lake
... 1933
Letty Pace
... 1933
Ruth Wayburn
... 1933
Barbara "Babs" Willis
... 1932
Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
... 1932
May Ballard
... 1932
Follette Marsh
... 1932
Marthe
... 1931
Nancy Gibson
... 1931
Norma Selbee
... 1931
Frisco Kitty
... 1931
Mary Linden
... 1931
Lily Kulper
... 1931
Princess Anne
... 1931
Dona Rosita Garcia
... 1930
Julia Seton
... 1930
Mimi Howell
... 1930
Mary Gray
... 1930
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
... 1929
Dee Renaud
... 1929
Marjorie Ware
... 1929
Judith Andrews
... 1928
Elizabeth Quimby
... 1928
Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
... 1928
Anna
... 1928
Jeanne
... 1928
Carol Trent
... 1928
Sally Montgomery
... 1927
Dolly
... 1927
Elena
... 1927
Mirza
... 1927
Molly Gibson
... 1927
Amy Cortissos
... 1927
Jennie Clayton
... 1926
Adriana della Varnese
... 1926
Mary
... 1926
Audrey Nye
... 1926
Fidele Tridon
... 1925
Doris
... 1925
Dolores de Muro
... 1925
Margo
... 1925
Leonore Bewlay
... 1925
Dolores Hicks
... 1925
Fay Bartholdi
... 1924
Alice Barrows
... 1924
Undetermined Secondary Role
... 1924
Helen Castle
... 1924
Mary Brainard
... 1924
Lady Margery Alvanley
... 1924
Lucy
... 1924
Violet Lynwood
... 1923
Vivian Hope-Clarke
... 1923
Rachel
... 1923
Mary Astor
... 1923
Narcissa Escobar
... 1923
Rose Randolph
... 1923
Polly Crawford
... 1923
Elsie Worden
... 1922
Young Woman
... 1922
Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
... 1922
Irene Mason
... 1922
Helen Seymour
... 1922
Bit Part
... 1922
... 1921
Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
... 1921
Norah Collison
... 1921
... 1921
Marcia Harthorn
... 1921
Bit Part
... 1921