From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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: "...that when 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.
Movie | Bogart: The Untold Story | Self (archive footage) | 1997-01-05 |
Series | Hollywood | Self | 1980-01-08 |
Movie | That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 |
Movie | The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli | Self (archive footage) | 1973-01-01 |
Movie | Hollywood My Home Town | Self (archive footage) | 1965-12-31 |
Movie | Youngblood Hawke | Irene Perry | 1964-11-04 |
Movie | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Jewel Mayhew | 1964-12-15 |
Movie | Hollywood Without Make-Up | Self (archive footage) | 1963-07-01 |
Series | Burke's Law | Unknown | 1963-09-20 |
Series | Ben Casey | Unknown | 1961-10-02 |
Movie | Return to Peyton Place | Mrs. Roberta Carter | 1961-05-05 |
Series | Dr. Kildare | Unknown | 1961-09-27 |
Series | Thriller | Unknown | 1960-09-13 |
Series | Checkmate | Esther Brack | 1960-09-17 |
Series | Rawhide | Unknown | 1959-01-09 |
Movie | A Stranger in My Arms | Virgilnie Beasley | 1959-03-03 |
Movie | This Happy Feeling | Mrs. Tremaine | 1958-06-18 |
Movie | The Devil's Hairpin | Mrs. Jargin | 1957-10-04 |
Movie | The Power and the Prize | Mrs. George Salt | 1956-09-26 |
Movie | A Kiss Before Dying | Mrs. Corliss | 1956-04-20 |
Series | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Unknown | 1956-10-05 |
Movie | The Thief | Isabelle Lagarde | 1955-01-04 |
Series | Playwrights '56 | Unknown | 1955-10-04 |
Series | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown | 1955-10-02 |
Series | Climax! | Unknown | 1954-10-07 |
Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
Series | The United States Steel Hour | Isabelle Lagarde | 1953-10-27 |
Series | Robert Montgomery Presents | Unknown | 1950-01-30 |
Series | Lux Video Theatre | Unknown | 1950-10-02 |
Movie | Act of Violence | Pat | 1949-02-01 |
Movie | Little Women | Marmee | 1949-03-10 |
Movie | Any Number Can Play | Ada | 1949-07-15 |
Series | The Philco Television Playhouse | Unknown | 1948-10-03 |
Series | Studio One | Unknown | 1948-11-07 |
Movie | Fiesta | Señora Morales | 1947-06-12 |
Movie | Cass Timberlane | Queenie Havock | 1947-11-06 |
Movie | Desert Fury | Fritzi Haller | 1947-08-15 |
Movie | Cynthia | Louise Bishop | 1947-08-29 |
Movie | Claudia and David | Elizabeth Van Doren | 1946-02-25 |
Movie | Okay for Sound | Adriana (archive footage) | 1946-09-07 |
Movie | Meet Me in St. Louis | Mrs. Anna Smith | 1944-11-28 |
Movie | Blonde Fever | Delilah Donay | 1944-12-05 |
Movie | Young Ideas | Josephine Evans | 1943-08-02 |
Movie | Thousands Cheer | Hyllary Jones | 1943-09-13 |
Movie | The Palm Beach Story | The Princess Centimillia | 1942-08-28 |
Movie | Across the Pacific | Alberta Marlow | 1942-09-04 |
Movie | The Great Lie | Sandra Kovak | 1941-04-05 |
Movie | The Maltese Falcon | Brigid O'Shaughnessy | 1941-10-18 |
Movie | Breakdowns of 1941 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1941-11-14 |
Movie | Turnabout | Marion Manning | 1940-05-17 |
Movie | Brigham Young | Mary Ann Young | 1940-09-27 |
Movie | Midnight | Helene Flammarion | 1939-03-24 |
Movie | No Time To Marry | Kay McGowan | 1938-02-05 |
Movie | There's Always a Woman | Lola Fraser | 1938-04-20 |
Movie | Woman Against Woman | Cynthia Holland | 1938-06-24 |
Movie | Listen, Darling | Dottie Wingate | 1938-10-21 |
Movie | Paradise for Three | Mrs. Irene Mallebre | 1938-06-04 |
Movie | The Prisoner of Zenda | Antoinette de Mauban | 1937-09-03 |
Movie | The Hurricane | Mme. DeLaage | 1937-11-09 |
Movie | And So They Were Married | Edith Farnham | 1936-05-10 |
Movie | The Murder of Dr. Harrigan | Lillian Cooper | 1936-01-11 |
Movie | Trapped by Television | Barbara 'Bobby' Blake | 1936-06-15 |
Movie | Dodsworth | Edith Cortright | 1936-09-23 |
Movie | Lady from Nowhere | Polly Dunlap | 1936-12-23 |
Movie | Dinky | Martha Daniels | 1935-05-11 |
Movie | Red Hot Tires | Patricia Sanford | 1935-02-02 |
Movie | Page Miss Glory | Gladys | 1935-09-07 |
Movie | Man of Iron | Vida | 1935-12-21 |
Movie | Return of the Terror | Olga Morgan | 1934-07-07 |
Movie | Easy to Love | Charlotte | 1934-01-13 |
Movie | The Man with Two Faces | Jessica Wells | 1934-08-04 |
Movie | Upperworld | Hettie Stream | 1934-04-19 |
Movie | The Case of the Howling Dog | Bessie Foley | 1934-09-22 |
Movie | I Am a Thief | Odette Mauclair | 1934-11-24 |
Movie | The Hollywood Gad-About | Self | 1934-10-04 |
Movie | The Little Giant | Ruth Wayburn | 1933-05-20 |
Movie | Jennie Gerhardt | Letty Pace | 1933-06-08 |
Movie | The World Changes | Virginia Claffin Nordholm | 1933-11-25 |
Movie | The Kennel Murder Case | Hilda Lake | 1933-10-28 |
Movie | Convention City | Arlene Dale | 1933-12-14 |
Movie | The Lost Squadron | Follette Marsh | 1932-03-12 |
Movie | Those We Love | May Ballard | 1932-09-11 |
Movie | A Successful Calamity | Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton | 1932-09-17 |
Movie | Red Dust | Barbara "Babs" Willis | 1932-10-22 |
Movie | Other Men's Women | Lily Kulper | 1931-01-17 |
Movie | Behind Office Doors | Mary Linden | 1931-03-15 |
Movie | The Royal Bed | Princess Anne | 1931-01-15 |
Movie | Men of Chance | Marthe | 1931-12-26 |
Movie | Smart Woman | Nancy Gibson | 1931-09-12 |
Movie | The Sin Ship | Frisco Kitty | 1931-04-18 |
Movie | The Runaway Bride | Mary Gray | 1930-05-04 |
Movie | Ladies Love Brutes | Mimi Howell | 1930-05-14 |
Movie | Holiday | Julia Seton | 1930-07-03 |
Movie | The Lash | Dona Rosita Garcia | 1930-12-14 |
Movie | The Woman from Hell | Dee Renaud | 1929-04-20 |
Movie | Show of Shows | Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited) | 1929-11-21 |
Movie | 3-Ring Marriage | Anna | 1928-06-10 |
Movie | Dressed to Kill | Jeanne | 1928-03-17 |
Movie | Heart to Heart | Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie | 1928-07-22 |
Movie | Dry Martini | Elizabeth Quimby | 1928-10-06 |
Movie | Romance of the Underworld | Judith Andrews | 1928-11-10 |
Movie | The Sea Tiger | Amy Cortissos | 1927-02-27 |
Movie | The Sunset Derby | Molly Gibson | 1927-06-05 |
Movie | Rose of the Golden West | Elena | 1927-09-25 |
Movie | Two Arabian Knights | Mirza | 1927-09-23 |
Movie | The Rough Riders | Dolly | 1927-09-30 |
Movie | Don Juan | Adriana della Varnese | 1926-08-06 |
Movie | Forever After | Jennie Clayton | 1926-10-24 |
Movie | Oh, Doctor! | Dolores Hicks | 1925-02-23 |
Movie | Scarlet Saint | Fidele Tridon | 1925-11-08 |
Movie | Enticement | Leonore Bewlay | 1925-03-01 |
Movie | Don Q Son of Zorro | Dolores de Muro | 1925-06-15 |
Movie | Beau Brummel | Lady Margery Alvanley | 1924-03-30 |
Movie | The Fighting Coward | Lucy | 1924-03-14 |
Movie | The Fighting American | Mary Brainard | 1924-05-26 |
Movie | Unguarded Women | Helen Castle | 1924-06-22 |
Movie | Inez from Hollywood | Fay Bartholdi | 1924-12-14 |
Movie | Success | Rose Randolph | 1923-02-25 |
Movie | The Bright Shawl | Narcissa Escobar | 1923-04-22 |
Movie | Second Fiddle | Polly Crawford | 1923-01-14 |
Movie | Hollywood | Mary Astor | 1923-08-19 |
Movie | Woman-Proof | Violet Lynwood | 1923-10-28 |
Movie | The Marriage Maker | Vivian Hope-Clarke | 1923-09-30 |
Movie | The Man Who Played God | Young Woman | 1922-10-01 |
Movie | John Smith | Irene Mason | 1922-06-01 |
Movie | The Rapids | Elsie Worden | 1922-10-30 |
Movie | Brother of the Bear | Marcia Harthorn | 1921-02-18 |
Movie | Sentimental Tommy | 1921-03-26 | |
Movie | My Lady o' the Pines | Norah Collison | 1921-09-11 |
Movie | The Beggar Maid | Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid | 1921-09-25 |
Movie | The Scarecrow | (uncredited & cut) | 1920-11-07 |