Mary Astor

Acting · 1.1 popularity

Age

120

Movies

134

Born: May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987
From: Quincy, Illinois, USA
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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.

Works

134 films

The Maltese Falcon

19417.7

Little Women

19497.4

Meet Me in St. Louis

19447.0

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

19647.3

The Fighting American

19246.8

Brigham Young

19404.6

Desert Fury

19475.9

The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

20067.8

A Kiss Before Dying

19566.3

The Show of Shows

19296.6

That's Entertainment, Part II

19767.0

Cass Timberlane

19476.0

Fiesta

19476.2

Across the Pacific

19426.6

The Rapids

19227.0

Act of Violence

19496.9

The Thief

19554.0

The Palm Beach Story

19427.0

Convention City

19334.2

Midnight

19397.4

The Prisoner of Zenda

19377.5

Breakdowns of 1941

19417.0

Sentimental Tommy

19217.0

The Great Lie

19417.0

Claudia and David

19467.5

Red Dust

19326.9

White Shoulders

193110.0

The Hurricane

19376.7

Unguarded Women

19247.0

There's Always a Woman

19386.0

Youngblood Hawke

19646.3

Return to Peyton Place

19616.6

3-Ring Marriage

1928

Other Men's Women

19315.7

The Kennel Murder Case

19336.1

Cynthia

19476.2

Don Juan

19266.6

Any Number Can Play

19496.9

The Case of the Howling Dog

19346.3

A Stranger in My Arms

19594.2

Dodsworth

19367.1

This Happy Feeling

19584.8

Holiday

19306.2

The Beggar Maid

19217.3

Men of Chance

19316.0

Bogart: The Untold Story

1997

The World Changes

19334.8

Oh, Doctor!

19256.3

Don Q Son of Zorro

19256.7

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

1960

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

19737.0

The Power and the Prize

19566.3

The Woman from Hell

19298.0

Thousands Cheer

19436.4

I Am a Thief

19346.2

Hollywood

19239.0

Hope

19228.0

Behind Office Doors

19314.9

Page Miss Glory

19356.7

Young Ideas

19435.3

Beau Brummel

19247.0

Listen, Darling

19386.7

Success

192310.0

The Bright Shawl

19237.0

The Little Giant

19337.0

Turnabout

19406.0

The Murder of Dr. Harrigan

19365.8

The Littlest Enemy

1958

Red Hot Tires

19356.0

The Sea Tiger

192710.0

Smart Woman

19315.4

A Successful Calamity

19325.6

Rose of the Golden West

19279.0

Trapped by Television

19366.9

Easy to Love

19345.1

Man of Iron

19357.0

The Ninth Day

1957

The Man Who Played God

19227.0

The Devil's Hairpin

19576.0

The Man with Two Faces

19346.8

Two Arabian Knights

19275.8

The Lash

19306.5

Woman Against Woman

19387.0

The Hollywood Gad-About

19346.0

Return of the Terror

19346.5

The Fighting Coward

19245.5

Upperworld

19346.1

The Lost Squadron

19326.5

Dinky

19357.3

To the Ladies

19248.0

The Wise Guy

19267.0

The Rough Riders

19277.0

Romance of the Underworld

19285.8

Ladies Love Brutes

19306.4

Blonde Fever

19444.4

Straight from the Heart

19359.0

And So They Were Married

19366.4

Inez from Hollywood

19248.0

Journey to the Day

1960

The Royal Bed

19314.3

Jennie Gerhardt

19335.7

Okay for Sound

19466.7

Those We Love

19326.5

No Time to Marry

19387.0

Yesterday and Today

19537.0

Enticement

19257.0

Dressed to Kill

19288.0

Wings of the Border

19219.0

Dry Martini

19287.0

High Steppers

19269.0

The Price of a Party

19249.0

The Runaway Bride

19306.2

The Marriage Maker

19237.0

The Sunset Derby

19278.0

Paradise for Three

19387.4

Heart to Heart

19287.0

Woman-Proof

19238.0

New Year's Eve

19297.0

Forever After

19268.0

Scarlet Saint

19259.0

The Pace That Thrills

19259.0

Lady from Nowhere

19369.0

Second Fiddle

19238.0

Playing with Souls

19259.0

Puritan Passions

19238.0

John Smith

19227.0

No Place to Go

19278.0

The Sin Ship

19315.8

Sailors' Wives

19288.0

The Young Painter

192210.0

Brother of the Bear

19219.0

My Lady o' the Pines

19216.0

The Angelus

19229.0

Bullets or Ballots

19217.0