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."
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Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1906-05-03
Place of birth
Quincy, Illinois, USA
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Cast
Meet Me in St. Louis
1944
6.99
The Maltese Falcon
1941
7.70
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964
7.29
Dodsworth
1936
7.10
Midnight
1939
7.30
The Palm Beach Story
1942
7.01
Other Men's Women
1931
5.53
Desert Fury
1947
5.97
Act of Violence
1949
6.93
Hollywood
1923
8.50
White Shoulders
1931
0.00
The Little Giant
1933
6.84
Little Women
1949
7.39
Thousands Cheer
1943
6.40
The Prisoner of Zenda
1937
7.40
The Great Lie
1941
6.80
Red Dust
1932
7.00
Fiesta
1947
4.70
Brother of the Bear
1921
0.00
Bullets or Ballots
1921
0.00
My Lady o' the Pines
1921
4.00
The Young Painter
1922
0.00
Wings of the Border
1921
0.00
Hope
1922
0.00
John Smith
1922
0.00
The Man Who Played God
1922
0.00
The Angelus
1922
0.00
Puritan Passions
1923
0.00
To the Ladies
1924
0.00
Playing with Souls
1925
0.00
The Price of a Party
1924
0.00
The Pace That Thrills
1925
0.00
The Wise Guy
1926
0.00
No Place to Go
1927
0.00
Sailors' Wives
1928
0.00
The Sunset Derby
1927
0.00
New Year's Eve
1929
0.00
Return of the Terror
1934
6.00
Yesterday and Today
1953
0.00
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1960
0.00
Straight from the Heart
1935
0.00
Across the Pacific
1942
6.60
A Kiss Before Dying
1956
6.20
The Kennel Murder Case
1933
6.12
Listen, Darling
1938
6.30
The Man with Two Faces
1934
6.58
Brigham Young
1940
4.40
The Hurricane
1937
6.60
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
1936
5.60
Don Juan
1926
6.50
The Lost Squadron
1932
6.30
Any Number Can Play
1949
6.90
Holiday
1930
6.21
Youngblood Hawke
1964
6.10
Cass Timberlane
1947
5.90
Return to Peyton Place
1961
6.70
Those We Love
1932
6.00
Turnabout
1940
6.00
Don Q Son of Zorro
1925
6.60
Trapped by Television
1936
6.40
Blonde Fever
1944
4.40
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934
6.50
Beau Brummel
1924
6.80
This Happy Feeling
1958
3.80
A Successful Calamity
1932
5.20
Behind Office Doors
1931
4.80
The Royal Bed
1931
4.00
Romance of the Underworld
1928
4.50
I Am a Thief
1934
6.00
There's Always a Woman
1938
6.06
Smart Woman
1931
5.90
Young Ideas
1943
4.60
Cynthia
1947
5.90
And So They Were Married
1936
5.80
Easy to Love
1934
5.10
The Power and the Prize
1956
5.50
Ladies Love Brutes
1930
5.70
Page Miss Glory
1935
6.30
Men of Chance
1931
5.80
Jennie Gerhardt
1933
4.00
Upperworld
1934
6.30
The World Changes
1933
4.80
Oh, Doctor!
1925
5.70
Claudia and David
1946
6.00
Dinky
1935
6.70
A Stranger in My Arms
1959
3.20
The Lash
1930
5.30
Paradise for Three
1938
6.80
Convention City
1933
3.70
The Bright Shawl
1923
0.00
Dressed to Kill
1928
0.00
The Sin Ship
1931
5.80
The Show of Shows
1929
5.50
The Runaway Bride
1930
5.00
Lady from Nowhere
1936
0.00
Heart to Heart
1928
0.00
Two Arabian Knights
1927
6.00
The Beggar Maid
1921
5.50
Red Hot Tires
1935
5.80
The Sea Tiger
1927
0.00
Woman Against Woman
1938
6.50
The Woman from Hell
1929
0.00
The Devil's Hairpin
1957
5.00
Scarlet Saint
1925
0.00
Man of Iron
1935
6.00
No Time to Marry
1938
6.00
The Ninth Day
1957
0.00
The Rough Riders
1927
4.00
Breakdowns of 1941
1941
7.00
Dry Martini
1928
0.00
The Thief
1955
4.80
Sentimental Tommy
1921
4.00
The Hollywood Gad-About
1934
5.00
Second Fiddle
1923
0.00
Rose of the Golden West
1927
0.00
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
6.86
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997
0.00
Enticement
1925
0.00
The Marriage Maker
1923
0.00
The Fighting Coward
1924
4.80
Success
1923
0.00
3-Ring Marriage
1928
0.00
Woman-Proof
1923
0.00
Forever After
1926
0.00
Okay for Sound
1946
5.00
The Fighting American
1924
5.70
The Rapids
1922
0.00
High Steppers
1926
0.00
Inez from Hollywood
1924
0.00
Unguarded Women
1924
0.00