Mary Astor
Acting
- Born:
- 1906-05-03
- Died:
- 1987-09-25
- Place of birth:
- Quincy, Illinois, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Bogart: The Untold Story
Hollywood
That's Entertainment, Part II
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Youngblood Hawke
Burke's Law
Ben Casey
Dr. Kildare
The Defenders
Return to Peyton Place
Checkmate
Thriller
Journey to the Day
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
A Stranger in My Arms
Rawhide
This Happy Feeling
The Littlest Enemy
The Troublemakers
The Devil's Hairpin
The Ninth Day
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
The Power and the Prize
A Kiss Before Dying
Playwrights '56
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Thief
Producers' Showcase
Climax!
Yesterday and Today
The United States Steel Hour
General Electric Theater
Lux Video Theatre
Robert Montgomery Presents
Any Number Can Play
Little Women
Act of Violence
Studio One
The Philco Television Playhouse
Cass Timberlane
Cynthia
Desert Fury
Fiesta
Okay for Sound
Claudia and David
Blonde Fever
Meet Me in St. Louis
Thousands Cheer
Young Ideas
Across the Pacific
The Palm Beach Story
Breakdowns of 1941
The Maltese Falcon
The Great Lie
Brigham Young
Turnabout
Midnight
Listen, Darling
Woman Against Woman
Paradise for Three
There's Always a Woman
No Time to Marry
The Hurricane
The Prisoner of Zenda
Lady from Nowhere
Dodsworth
Trapped by Television
And So They Were Married
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Man of Iron
Page Miss Glory
Dinky
Straight from the Heart
Red Hot Tires
I Am a Thief
The Hollywood Gad-About
The Case of the Howling Dog
The Man with Two Faces
Return of the Terror
Upperworld
Easy to Love
Convention City
The World Changes
The Kennel Murder Case
Jennie Gerhardt
The Little Giant
Red Dust
A Successful Calamity
Those We Love
The Lost Squadron
Men of Chance
Smart Woman
White Shoulders
The Sin Ship
Behind Office Doors
Other Men's Women
The Royal Bed
The Lash
Holiday
Ladies Love Brutes
The Runaway Bride
The Show of Shows
The Woman from Hell
New Year's Eve
Romance of the Underworld
Dry Martini
Heart to Heart
3-Ring Marriage
Dressed to Kill
Sailors' Wives
No Place to Go
The Rough Riders
Rose of the Golden West
Two Arabian Knights
The Sunset Derby
The Sea Tiger
Forever After
Don Juan
The Wise Guy
High Steppers
Scarlet Saint
The Pace That Thrills
Don Q Son of Zorro
Playing with Souls
Enticement
Oh, Doctor!
Inez from Hollywood
The Price of a Party
To the Ladies
Unguarded Women
The Fighting American
Beau Brummel
The Fighting Coward
Woman-Proof
The Marriage Maker
Puritan Passions
Hollywood
The Bright Shawl
Success
Second Fiddle
The Rapids
The Man Who Played God
Hope
John Smith
The Young Painter
The Angelus
Wings of the Border
The Beggar Maid
My Lady o' the Pines
Sentimental Tommy
Brother of the Bear
Bullets or Ballots