Mary Astor
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
Anna Smith
Meet Me in St. Louis
Brigid O'Shaughnessy
The Maltese Falcon
Jewel Mayhew
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Edith Cortright
Dodsworth
Helene Flammarion
Midnight
The Princess Centimillia
The Palm Beach Story
Lily Kulper
Other Men's Women
Fritzi Haller
Desert Fury
Pat
Act of Violence
Mary Astor
Hollywood
Norma Selbee
White Shoulders
Ruth Wayburn
The Little Giant
Marmee
Little Women
Hyllary Jones
Thousands Cheer
Antoinette de Mauban
The Prisoner of Zenda
Sandra Kovak
The Great Lie
Barbara "Babs" Willis
Red Dust
Señora Morales
Fiesta
Marcia Harthorn
Brother of the Bear
Bit Part
Bullets or Ballots
Norah Collison
My Lady o' the Pines
Helen Seymour
The Young Painter
Wings of the Border
Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
Hope
Irene Mason
John Smith
Young Woman
The Man Who Played God
Bit Part
The Angelus
Rachel
Puritan Passions
Undetermined Secondary Role
To the Ladies
Margo
Playing with Souls
Alice Barrows
The Price of a Party
Doris
The Pace That Thrills
Mary
The Wise Guy
Sally Montgomery
No Place to Go
Carol Trent
Sailors' Wives
Molly Gibson
The Sunset Derby
Marjorie Ware
New Year's Eve
Olga Morgan
Return of the Terror
(archive footage)
Yesterday and Today
Mrs. Leslie
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Marian Henshaw
Straight from the Heart
Self (archive footage)
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Alberta Marlow
Across the Pacific
Mrs. Corliss
A Kiss Before Dying
Hilda Lake
The Kennel Murder Case
Dottie Wingate
Listen, Darling
Jessica Wells
The Man with Two Faces
Mary Ann Young
Brigham Young
Mme. DeLaage
The Hurricane
Lillian Cooper
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Adriana della Varnese
Don Juan
Follette Marsh
The Lost Squadron
Ada
Any Number Can Play
Julia Seton
Holiday
Irene Perry
Youngblood Hawke
Queenie Havock
Cass Timberlane
Mrs. Roberta Carter
Return to Peyton Place
May Ballard
Those We Love
Marion Manning
Turnabout
Dolores de Muro
Don Q Son of Zorro
Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
Trapped by Television
Delilah Donay
Blonde Fever
Bessie Foley
The Case of the Howling Dog
Lady Margery Alvanley
Beau Brummel
Mrs. Tremaine
This Happy Feeling
Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
A Successful Calamity
Mary Linden
Behind Office Doors
Princess Anne
The Royal Bed
Judith Andrews
Romance of the Underworld
Odette Mauclair
I Am a Thief
Lola Fraser
There's Always a Woman
Nancy Gibson
Smart Woman
Josephine Evans
Young Ideas
Louise Bishop
Cynthia
Edith Farnham
And So They Were Married
Charlotte
Easy to Love
Mrs. George Salt
The Power and the Prize
Mimi Howell
Ladies Love Brutes
Gladys
Page Miss Glory
Marthe
Men of Chance
Letty Pace
Jennie Gerhardt
Hettie Stream
Upperworld
Virginia Claffin Nordholm
The World Changes
Dolores Hicks
Oh, Doctor!
Elizabeth Van Doren
Claudia and David
Martha Daniels
Dinky
Virgilnie Beasley
A Stranger in My Arms
Dona Rosita Garcia
The Lash
Mrs. Irene Mallebre
Paradise for Three
Arlene Dale
Convention City
Narcissa Escobar
The Bright Shawl
Jeanne
Dressed to Kill
Frisco Kitty
The Sin Ship
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
The Show of Shows
Mary Gray
The Runaway Bride
Polly Dunlap
Lady from Nowhere
Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
Heart to Heart
Mirza
Two Arabian Knights
Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
The Beggar Maid
Patricia Sanford
Red Hot Tires
Amy Cortissos
The Sea Tiger
Self (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Cynthia Holland
Woman Against Woman
Dee Renaud
The Woman from Hell
Mrs. Jargin
The Devil's Hairpin
Fidele Tridon
Scarlet Saint
Vida
Man of Iron
Kay McGowan
No Time to Marry
The Ninth Day
Dolly
The Rough Riders
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Breakdowns of 1941
Elizabeth Quimby
Dry Martini
Isabelle Lagarde
The Thief
Sentimental Tommy
Self
The Hollywood Gad-About
Polly Crawford
Second Fiddle
Elena
Rose of the Golden West
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
Self (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story
Leonore Bewlay
Enticement
Vivian Hope-Clarke
The Marriage Maker
Lucy
The Fighting Coward
Rose Randolph
Success
Anna
3-Ring Marriage
Violet Lynwood
Woman-Proof
Jennie Clayton
Forever After
Adriana (archive footage)
Okay for Sound
Mary Brainard
The Fighting American
Elsie Worden
The Rapids
Audrey Nye
High Steppers
Fay Bartholdi
Inez from Hollywood
Helen Castle
Unguarded Women
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
132
Gender
Female
Birthday
1906-05-03
Place of Birth
Quincy, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
Μαίρη Άστορ