Gertrude Astor
Acting
- Nascimento:
- 1887-11-09
- Falecimento:
- 1977-11-09
- Local de nascimento:
- Lakewood, Ohio, USA
Biografia
Gertrude Astor (Born Gertrude Eyster November 9, 1887 – November 9, 1977) was an American motion picture character actress, who began her career playing trombone on a riverboat. Born in Lakewood, Ohio, Astor at the age of 12 ran off and joined a woman's band as a trombone player and toured the states. In New York she left the band to obtain film work and got a job as an extra before her career took off. Astor was a prolific performer, between 1915 and 1962 she appeared in over 250 movies. Her first known credit is in a Biograph short in 1915. She then became a contract player at Universal. A tall, angular and beautiful woman, Astor frequently towered over the leading men of the era; thus, she was most frequently utilized in comedy roles as aristocrats, golddiggers and "heroine's best pal". Her best-known silent appearances were as the visiting stage star in Stage Struck (1925) with Gloria Swanson, as the vamp who plants stolen money on Harry Langdon in The Strong Man (1926), and as Laura LaPlante's wisecracking travelling companion in The Cat and the Canary (1927). Astor worked prolifically at Hal Roach studios with such headliners as Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, and especially Charley Chase. She was also kept busy at Columbia Pictures' short subjects unit. She continued to play bits in feature films throughout the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. She was briefly glimpsed as the first murder victim in the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Scarlet Claw and was among the ranks of dress extras in 1956's Around the World in Eighty Days. Her last appearance was in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. In her later years, Astor was a welcome guest at several Sons of the Desert gatherings, and became an honorary member of the Way Out West tent. She died in Woodland Hills, California from a stroke. She is interred in the Abbey of Psalms in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, CA.
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Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
My Mother the Car
A Noviça Rebelde
A Inconquistável Molly Brown
O Homem Que Matou o Facínora
The Devil's Hand
Terra Bruta
A Dama da Madrugada
Audazes e Malditos
Sob o Signo do Sexo
The Tingler
Marcha de Heróis
The Female Animal
O Galante Vagabundo
A Volta ao Mundo em 80 Dias
A Rainha Tirana
Wichita
Papai Pernilongo
Bem no Meu Coração
Nasce Uma Estrela
Morrendo de Medo
Alma em Pânico
The Old West
A Viúva Alegre
Paula
Fort Osage
Escândalo
Agonia de uma Vida
I Love Lucy
O Fim do Mundo
Um Lugar ao Sol
Flechas da Vingança
A Malvada
Again Pioneers
Os Mortos Não Voltam
Crepúsculo dos Deuses
À Margem da Vida
Montana - Terra Proibida
Entre o Amor e a Morte
A Confissão de Thelma
A Lei é implacável
O Céu Mandou Alguém
Minha Secretária Favorita
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
Music Man
Here Comes Trouble
Sitting Pretty
Monsieur Verdoux
Estratagema da Juventude
Calcutta
Os Melhores Anos de Nossas Vidas
Sister Kenny
Museu de Horrores
O Solar de Dragonwyck
Amar foi Minha Ruína
Dick Tracy, O Audacioso
An Angel Comes To Brooklyn
Girls of the Big House
Swingin' on a Rainbow
Climax
Garra Escarlate
Feitiço
The Kansan
The Avenging Rider
Idaho
Desfiladeiro Perdido
Moontide
Vendaval de Paixões
Frisco Lil
O Lobisomem
A Porta de Ouro
Misbehaving Husbands
The Doctor Takes a Wife
The Llano Kid
$1,000 a Touchdown
Cruel é o Meu Destino
As Mulheres
Tassels in the Air
The Big Broadcast of 1938
Uma Nação Em Marcha
All Over Town
Garota de Sorte
Rich Relations
Empty Saddles
Great Guy
Wives Never Know
Postal Inspector
São Francisco, a Cidade do Pecado
I Don't Remember
Manhattan Monkey Business
Bad Boy
It's in the Air
Cappy Ricks Returns
Here Comes the Band
Honeymoon Limited
Adeus Mulheres
Border Brigands
The Drunkard
Northern Frontier
The Chases of Pimple Street
Washee Ironee
Wedding Belles
I'll Take Vanilla
Guilty Parents
Carnival Lady
Crook's Tour
Ship of Wanted Men
I Have Lived
The Plumber and the Lady
Wine, Women and Song
Flaming Gold
Western Limited
High Hats and Low Brows
They Never Come Back
While Paris Sleeps
In Walked Charley
Running Hollywood
Poker Widows
Come Clean
Hell Bound
Live and Learn
Dames Ahoy
Astúcia Feminina
A Indomável
Frozen Justice
Twin Beds
The Fall of Eve
Two Weeks Off
The Fatal Warning
Synthetic Sin
Chasing Husbands
Mulher de Brio
The Butter and Egg Man
Stocks and Blondes
Hit of the Show
Five and Ten Cent Annie
The Family Group
Rosa Maria
The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
Oh, What a Man!
Ginsberg the Great
The Small Bachelor
A Cabana do Pai Tomás
The Irresistible Lover
O Gato e o Canário
Dançarina Por Aluguel
Lightning Lariats
The Cheerful Fraud
O homem forte
Sin Cargo
The Country Beyond
Tell 'Em Nothing
The Old Soak
Don Juan's 3 Nights
The Boy Friend
Kiki
Wife Tamers
Dizzy Daddies
Behind the Front
Ship of Souls
Este Mundo é um Teatro
Satan in Sables
Borrowed Finery
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
Kentucky Pride
Pursued
The Charmer
The Verdict
Folly of Youth
The Reckless Sex
Laughing Ladies
Robes of Sin
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
The Silent Watcher
All's Swell on the Ocean
The Torrent
Fight and Win
Broadway or Bust
Secrets
The Wanters
Juventude Ardente
The Six-Fifty
Hollywood
Rupert of Hentzau
The Ne'er-Do-Well
Alice Adams
The Ninety and Nine
You Never Know
The Kentucky Derby
The Impossible Mrs. Bellew
Lorna Doone
Skin Deep
Hurricane's Gal
Esposa Mártir
Seeing's Believing
The Wall Flower
Her Mad Bargain
Through the Back Door
The Concert
The Branding Iron
Occasionally Yours
Burning Daylight
The Lion Man
The Wicked Darling
Loot
Pretty Smooth
Irresistível Helena
What Am I Bid?
The Brazen Beauty
The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit
Vamping the Vamp
Bucking Broadway
The Lash of Power
The Price of a Good Time
Bondage
The Girl Who Won Out
Cheyenne's Pal
The Rescue
The Gray Ghost
The Little Orphan
Polly Redhead
The Scarlet Crystal
The Devil's Pay Day
Bombs and Banknotes
Under Two Flags