Mary Astor
Acting
Born: May 3, 1906 · Quincy, Illinois, USA
Died: September 25, 1987 (aged 81)
Highest Rated
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
The Maltese Falcon
1941
Meet Me in St. Louis
1944
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Little Women
1949
The Palm Beach Story
1942
Dodsworth
1936
Act of Violence
1949
Midnight
1939
Across the Pacific
1942
Red Dust
1932
A Kiss Before Dying
1956
Photos (4)
Movies (124)
The Maltese Falcon
Brigid O'Shaughnessy
Little Women
Marmee
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Jewel Mayhew
The Prisoner of Zenda
Antoinette de Mauban
A Successful Calamity
Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
Act of Violence
Pat
Meet Me in St. Louis
Anna Smith
Cass Timberlane
Queenie Havock
The Show of Shows
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
The Fighting American
Mary Brainard
Brigham Young
Mary Ann Young
The Palm Beach Story
The Princess Centimillia
Yesterday and Today
(archive footage)
The Great Lie
Sandra Kovak
Red Dust
Barbara "Babs" Willis
Fiesta
Señora Morales
The Hurricane
Mme. DeLaage
Other Men's Women
Lily Kulper
Midnight
Helene Flammarion
The Rapids
Elsie Worden
A Kiss Before Dying
Mrs. Corliss
Across the Pacific
Alberta Marlow
Dodsworth
Edith Cortright
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
Convention City
Arlene Dale
Thousands Cheer
Hyllary Jones
Desert Fury
Fritzi Haller
Youngblood Hawke
Irene Perry
Hollywood
Mary Astor
The Thief
Isabelle Lagarde
White Shoulders
Norma Selbee
Sentimental Tommy
1921
Return to Peyton Place
Roberta Carter
The Kennel Murder Case
Hilda Lake
Oh, Doctor!
Dolores Hicks
Hope
Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
This Happy Feeling
Mrs. Tremaine
The World Changes
Virginia Claffin Nordholm
Any Number Can Play
Ada
There's Always a Woman
Lola Fraser
Unguarded Women
Helen Castle
Claudia and David
Elizabeth Van Doren
Two Arabian Knights
Mirza
The Power and the Prize
Mrs. George Salt
Turnabout
Marion Manning
The Case of the Howling Dog
Bessie Foley
A Stranger in My Arms
Virgilnie Beasley
Return of the Terror
Olga Morgan
The Bright Shawl
Narcissa Escobar
Page Miss Glory
Gladys
Upperworld
Hettie Stream
Holiday
Julia Seton
Those We Love
May Ballard
The Wise Guy
Mary
Behind Office Doors
Mary Linden
The Devil's Hairpin
Mrs. Jargin
No Time to Marry
Kay McGowan
Cynthia
Louise Bishop
The Little Giant
Ruth Wayburn
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Lillian Cooper
Don Juan
Adriana della Varnese
The Royal Bed
Princess Anne
Woman Against Woman
Cynthia Holland
The Man with Two Faces
Jessica Wells
The Lost Squadron
Follette Marsh
Don Q Son of Zorro
Dolores de Muro
Listen, Darling
Dottie Wingate
Smart Woman
Nancy Gibson
The Runaway Bride
Mary Gray
Trapped by Television
Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
Red Hot Tires
Patricia Sanford
I Am a Thief
Odette Mauclair
The Sea Tiger
Amy Cortissos
Paradise for Three
Mrs. Irene Mallebre
Dressed to Kill
Jeanne
The Ninth Day
1957
Blonde Fever
Delilah Donay
The Fighting Coward
Lucy
Men of Chance
Marthe
Okay for Sound
Adriana (archive footage)
3-Ring Marriage
Anna
The Rough Riders
Dolly
Forever After
Jennie Clayton
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Mrs. Leslie
The Sunset Derby
Molly Gibson
Young Ideas
Josephine Evans
Beau Brummel
Lady Margery Alvanley
To the Ladies
Undetermined Secondary Role
Man of Iron
Vida
The Beggar Maid
Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
Second Fiddle
Polly Crawford
The Sin Ship
Frisco Kitty
And So They Were Married
Edith Farnham
Straight from the Heart
Marian Henshaw
The Woman from Hell
Dee Renaud
The Marriage Maker
Vivian Hope-Clarke
Puritan Passions
Rachel
High Steppers
Audrey Nye
Dry Martini
Elizabeth Quimby
Rose of the Golden West
Elena
Enticement
Leonore Bewlay
Woman-Proof
Violet Lynwood
Easy to Love
Charlotte
Journey to the Day
Helen May Whitfield
Jennie Gerhardt
Letty Pace
Lady from Nowhere
Polly Dunlap
Romance of the Underworld
Judith Andrews
Dinky
Martha Daniels
Wings of the Border
1921
The Lash
Dona Rosita Garcia
Scarlet Saint
Fidele Tridon
The Man Who Played God
Young Woman
Playing with Souls
Margo
Ladies Love Brutes
Mimi Howell
Sailors' Wives
Carol Trent
John Smith
Irene Mason
New Year's Eve
Marjorie Ware
No Place to Go
Sally Montgomery
Heart to Heart
Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
Success
Rose Randolph
Inez from Hollywood
Fay Bartholdi
The Pace That Thrills
Doris
The Price of a Party
Alice Barrows
The Young Painter
Helen Seymour
TV Shows (21)
Robert Montgomery Presents
Norma Desmond · 1 eps
The Philco Television Playhouse
1 eps
Dr. Kildare
Martha Lantzinge · 1 eps
Dr. Kildare
Aunt Frances · 1 eps
Climax!
Mrs. Harriss · 1 eps
Climax!
Ethel Allen · 1 eps
Climax!
Martha · 1 eps
Climax!
Clarissa Bowman · 1 eps
Rawhide
Emma Cardwell · 1 eps
Studio One
Ruth Sparling · 1 eps
Studio One
Harriet Brand · 1 eps
Thriller
Rose French · 1 eps
Ben Casey
1 eps
Burke's Law
Florence Roberts · 1 eps
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Mrs. Fenimore · 1 eps
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Grace Dolan · 1 eps
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Sarah Simmons · 1 eps
The Defenders
Flora Goode · 1 eps
Checkmate
Esther Brack · 1 eps
The United States Steel Hour
Isabelle Lagarde · 1 eps
General Electric Theater
Bea Hicks · 1 eps
Self / Appearances (6)
Hollywood
Self · 13 eps
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Self (archive footage)
Breakdowns of 1941
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Self (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story
Self (archive footage)
The Hollywood Gad-About
Self