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