Cast
Mary Astor
Acting
Cast
Mary Astor
Known for
Acting
Born
1906-05-03
From
Quincy, Illinois, USA
Died
1987-09-25
Also known as Μαίρη Άστορ, Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke
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.
★7.4
MOVIE1949
Little Women
as Marmee
★7.7
MOVIE1941
The Maltese Falcon
as Brigid O'Shaughnessy
★6.0
MOVIE1947
Cass Timberlane
as Queenie Havock
★6.6
MOVIE1929
The Show of Shows
as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1947
Fiesta
as Señora Morales
★7.0
MOVIE1944
Meet Me in St. Louis
as Anna Smith
★4.6
MOVIE1940
Brigham Young
as Mary Ann Young
★7.3
MOVIE1964
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
as Jewel Mayhew
★4.2
MOVIE1933
Convention City
as Arlene Dale
★7.5
MOVIE1946
Claudia and David
as Elizabeth Van Doren
★10.0
MOVIE1931
White Shoulders
as Norma Selbee
★4.0
MOVIE1955
The Thief
as Isabelle Lagarde
★4.8
MOVIE1958
This Happy Feeling
as Mrs. Tremaine
★7.0
MOVIE1921
Sentimental Tommy
★7.0
MOVIE1941
Breakdowns of 1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1956
A Kiss Before Dying
as Mrs. Corliss
★6.8
MOVIE1924
The Fighting American
as Mary Brainard
★7.8
MOVIE2006
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
as Self (archive footage)
★7.5
MOVIE1937
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Antoinette de Mauban
★5.7
MOVIE1931
Other Men's Women
as Lily Kulper
★7.0
MOVIE1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE1923
The Bright Shawl
as Narcissa Escobar
★6.7
MOVIE1937
The Hurricane
as Mme. DeLaage
★6.6
MOVIE1961
Return to Peyton Place
as Roberta Carter
★7.0
MOVIE1924
Unguarded Women
as Helen Castle
★6.2
MOVIE1934
I Am a Thief
as Odette Mauclair
★6.6
MOVIE1942
Across the Pacific
as Alberta Marlow
★7.0
MOVIE1922
The Rapids
as Elsie Worden
★6.3
MOVIE1964
Youngblood Hawke
as Irene Perry
★7.0
MOVIE1926
The Wise Guy
as Mary
★6.9
MOVIE1949
Act of Violence
as Pat
★4.8
MOVIE1933
The World Changes
as Virginia Claffin Nordholm
★6.6
MOVIE1926
Don Juan
as Adriana della Varnese
MOVIE1960
Journey to the Day
as Helen May Whitfield
★8.0
MOVIE1922
Hope
as Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
★7.0
MOVIE1941
The Great Lie
as Sandra Kovak
★7.0
MOVIE1942
The Palm Beach Story
as The Princess Centimillia
★5.9
MOVIE1947
Desert Fury
as Fritzi Haller
★6.5
MOVIE1934
Return of the Terror
as Olga Morgan
★6.9
MOVIE1949
Any Number Can Play
as Ada
★6.9
MOVIE1932
Red Dust
as Barbara "Babs" Willis
★7.4
MOVIE1939
Midnight
as Helene Flammarion
★6.1
MOVIE1933
The Kennel Murder Case
as Hilda Lake
★7.1
MOVIE1936
Dodsworth
as Edith Cortright
★6.3
MOVIE1925
Oh, Doctor!
as Dolores Hicks
MOVIE1997
Bogart: The Untold Story
as Self (archive footage)
★6.7
MOVIE1925
Don Q Son of Zorro
as Dolores de Muro
★7.0
MOVIE1938
No Time to Marry
as Kay McGowan
★10.0
MOVIE1927
The Sea Tiger
as Amy Cortissos
★8.0
MOVIE1929
The Woman from Hell
as Dee Renaud
★4.2
MOVIE1959
A Stranger in My Arms
as Virgilnie Beasley
★5.5
MOVIE1924
The Fighting Coward
as Lucy
★3.9
MOVIE1944
Blonde Fever
as Delilah Donay
★7.0
MOVIE1938
Woman Against Woman
as Cynthia Holland
MOVIE1928
3-Ring Marriage
as Anna
★5.7
MOVIE1933
Jennie Gerhardt
as Letty Pace
★7.0
MOVIE1933
The Little Giant
as Ruth Wayburn
★6.2
MOVIE1930
Holiday
as Julia Seton
★5.3
MOVIE1943
Young Ideas
as Josephine Evans
★6.0
MOVIE1931
Men of Chance
as Marthe
★6.4
MOVIE1943
Thousands Cheer
as Hyllary Jones
★6.7
MOVIE1946
Okay for Sound
as Adriana (archive footage)
★6.7
MOVIE1938
Listen, Darling
as Dottie Wingate
MOVIE1957
The Ninth Day
★7.0
MOVIE1924
Beau Brummel
as Lady Margery Alvanley
★5.6
MOVIE1932
A Successful Calamity
as Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
★6.0
MOVIE1940
Turnabout
as Marion Manning
★6.3
MOVIE1956
The Power and the Prize
as Mrs. George Salt
★7.0
MOVIE1953
Yesterday and Today
as (archive footage)
★9.0
MOVIE1935
Straight from the Heart
as Marian Henshaw
★6.2
MOVIE1947
Cynthia
as Louise Bishop
★9.0
MOVIE1923
Hollywood
as Mary Astor
★5.4
MOVIE1931
Smart Woman
as Nancy Gibson
★6.5
MOVIE1930
The Lash
as Dona Rosita Garcia
★6.4
MOVIE1936
And So They Were Married
as Edith Farnham
★5.8
MOVIE1927
Two Arabian Knights
as Mirza
★9.0
MOVIE1921
Wings of the Border
★7.0
MOVIE1973
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
as Self (archive footage)
★6.0
MOVIE1938
There's Always a Woman
as Lola Fraser
★6.0
MOVIE1957
The Devil's Hairpin
as Mrs. Jargin
★7.3
MOVIE1921
The Beggar Maid
as Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
★7.3
MOVIE1935
Dinky
as Martha Daniels
★6.3
MOVIE1934
The Case of the Howling Dog
as Bessie Foley
★5.8
MOVIE1936
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
as Lillian Cooper
★7.0
MOVIE1928
Dry Martini
as Elizabeth Quimby
★7.0
MOVIE1927
The Rough Riders
as Dolly
★6.4
MOVIE1930
Ladies Love Brutes
as Mimi Howell
★6.2
MOVIE1930
The Runaway Bride
as Mary Gray
★7.4
MOVIE1938
Paradise for Three
as Mrs. Irene Mallebre
★6.7
MOVIE1935
Page Miss Glory
as Gladys
★6.9
MOVIE1936
Trapped by Television
as Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
MOVIE1960
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
as Mrs. Leslie
★6.1
MOVIE1934
Upperworld
as Hettie Stream
★4.3
MOVIE1931
The Royal Bed
as Princess Anne
★6.5
MOVIE1932
Those We Love
as May Ballard
★4.9
MOVIE1931
Behind Office Doors
as Mary Linden
★5.1
MOVIE1934
Easy to Love
as Charlotte
★6.4
MOVIE1934
The Man with Two Faces
as Jessica Wells
★9.0
MOVIE1926
High Steppers
as Audrey Nye
★7.0
MOVIE1922
John Smith
as Irene Mason
MOVIE1958
The Littlest Enemy
as Mrs. Wickens
★7.0
MOVIE1935
Man of Iron
as Vida
★8.0
MOVIE1924
Inez from Hollywood
as Fay Bartholdi
★9.0
MOVIE1925
Scarlet Saint
as Fidele Tridon
★9.0
MOVIE1936
Lady from Nowhere
as Polly Dunlap
★9.0
MOVIE1924
The Price of a Party
as Alice Barrows
★10.0
MOVIE1923
Success
as Rose Randolph
★6.5
MOVIE1932
The Lost Squadron
as Follette Marsh
★8.0
MOVIE1923
Woman-Proof
as Violet Lynwood
★6.0
MOVIE1934
The Hollywood Gad-About
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE1935
Red Hot Tires
as Patricia Sanford
★8.0
MOVIE1927
No Place to Go
as Sally Montgomery
★8.0
MOVIE1928
Dressed to Kill
as Jeanne
★9.0
MOVIE1925
Playing with Souls
as Margo
★5.8
MOVIE1931
The Sin Ship
as Frisco Kitty
★8.0
MOVIE1924
To the Ladies
as Undetermined Secondary Role
★7.0
MOVIE1923
The Marriage Maker
as Vivian Hope-Clarke
★7.0
MOVIE1928
Heart to Heart
as Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
★8.0
MOVIE1926
Forever After
as Jennie Clayton
★9.0
MOVIE1927
Rose of the Golden West
as Elena
★9.0
MOVIE1925
The Pace That Thrills
as Doris
★7.0
MOVIE1925
Enticement
as Leonore Bewlay
★8.0
MOVIE1923
Second Fiddle
as Polly Crawford
★7.0
MOVIE1929
New Year's Eve
as Marjorie Ware
★5.8
MOVIE1928
Romance of the Underworld
as Judith Andrews
★7.0
MOVIE1922
The Man Who Played God
as Young Woman
★9.0
MOVIE1921
Brother of the Bear
as Marcia Harthorn
★8.0
MOVIE1927
The Sunset Derby
as Molly Gibson
★8.0
MOVIE1928
Sailors' Wives
as Carol Trent
★8.0
MOVIE1923
Puritan Passions
as Rachel
★6.0
MOVIE1921
My Lady o' the Pines
as Norah Collison
★9.0
MOVIE1922
The Angelus
as Bit Part
★10.0
MOVIE1922
The Young Painter
as Helen Seymour
★7.0
MOVIE1921
Bullets or Ballots
as Bit Part