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