Acting · Quincy, Illinois, USA · Born May 3, 1906
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.
MovieThe Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
2006
as Self (archive footage)
MovieBogart: The Untold Story
1997
as Self (archive footage)
TVHollywood
1980
as Self
MovieThat's Entertainment, Part II
1976
as (archive footage)
MovieThe Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973
as Self (archive footage)
MovieHush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964
as Jewel Mayhew
MovieYoungblood Hawke
1964
as Irene Perry
TVBurke's Law
1963
as Florence Roberts
TVBen Casey
1961
TVDr. Kildare
1961
as Martha Lantzinge
TVThe Defenders
1961
as Flora Goode
MovieReturn to Peyton Place
1961
as Roberta Carter
TVCheckmate
1960
as Esther Brack
TVThriller
1960
as Rose French
MovieJourney to the Day
1960
as Helen May Whitfield
MovieThe Snows of Kilimanjaro
1960
as Mrs. Leslie
MovieA Stranger in My Arms
1959
as Virgilnie Beasley
TVRawhide
1959
as Emma Cardwell
MovieThis Happy Feeling
1958
as Mrs. Tremaine
The Littlest Enemy
1958
as Mrs. Wickens
MovieThe Devil's Hairpin
1957
as Mrs. Jargin
MovieThe Ninth Day
1957
TVDick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Sarah Simmons
MovieThe Power and the Prize
1956
as Mrs. George Salt
MovieA Kiss Before Dying
1956
as Mrs. Corliss
Playwrights '56
1955
TVAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Mrs. Fenimore
MovieThe Thief
1955
as Isabelle Lagarde
Producers' Showcase
1954
as Nancy Blake
TVClimax!
1954
as Mrs. Harriss
MovieYesterday and Today
1953
as (archive footage)
TVThe United States Steel Hour
1953
as Isabelle Lagarde
TVGeneral Electric Theater
1953
as Bea Hicks
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Margaret Eliot
TVRobert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Norma Desmond
MovieAny Number Can Play
1949
as Ada
MovieLittle Women
1949
as Marmee
MovieAct of Violence
1949
as Pat
TVStudio One
1948
as Ruth Sparling
TVThe Philco Television Playhouse
1948
MovieCass Timberlane
1947
as Queenie Havock
MovieCynthia
1947
as Louise Bishop
MovieDesert Fury
1947
as Fritzi Haller
MovieFiesta
1947
as Señora Morales
MovieOkay for Sound
1946
as Adriana (archive footage)
MovieClaudia and David
1946
as Elizabeth Van Doren
MovieBlonde Fever
1944
as Delilah Donay
MovieMeet Me in St. Louis
1944
as Anna Smith
MovieThousands Cheer
1943
as Hyllary Jones
MovieYoung Ideas
1943
as Josephine Evans
MovieAcross the Pacific
1942
as Alberta Marlow
MovieThe Palm Beach Story
1942
as The Princess Centimillia
MovieBreakdowns of 1941
1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieThe Maltese Falcon
1941
as Brigid O'Shaughnessy
MovieThe Great Lie
1941
as Sandra Kovak
MovieBrigham Young
1940
as Mary Ann Young
MovieTurnabout
1940
as Marion Manning
MovieMidnight
1939
as Helene Flammarion
MovieListen, Darling
1938
as Dottie Wingate
MovieWoman Against Woman
1938
as Cynthia Holland
MovieParadise for Three
1938
as Mrs. Irene Mallebre
MovieThere's Always a Woman
1938
as Lola Fraser
MovieNo Time to Marry
1938
as Kay McGowan
MovieThe Hurricane
1937
as Mme. DeLaage
MovieThe Prisoner of Zenda
1937
as Antoinette de Mauban
MovieLady from Nowhere
1936
as Polly Dunlap
MovieDodsworth
1936
as Edith Cortright
MovieTrapped by Television
1936
as Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
MovieAnd So They Were Married
1936
as Edith Farnham
MovieThe Murder of Dr. Harrigan
1936
as Lillian Cooper
MovieMan of Iron
1935
as Vida
MoviePage Miss Glory
1935
as Gladys
MovieDinky
1935
as Martha Daniels
MovieStraight from the Heart
1935
as Marian Henshaw
MovieRed Hot Tires
1935
as Patricia Sanford
MovieI Am a Thief
1934
as Odette Mauclair
MovieThe Hollywood Gad-About
1934
as Self
MovieThe Case of the Howling Dog
1934
as Bessie Foley
MovieThe Man with Two Faces
1934
as Jessica Wells
MovieReturn of the Terror
1934
as Olga Morgan
MovieUpperworld
1934
as Hettie Stream
MovieEasy to Love
1934
as Charlotte
MovieConvention City
1933
as Arlene Dale
MovieThe World Changes
1933
as Virginia Claffin Nordholm
MovieThe Kennel Murder Case
1933
as Hilda Lake
MovieJennie Gerhardt
1933
as Letty Pace
MovieThe Little Giant
1933
as Ruth Wayburn
MovieRed Dust
1932
as Barbara "Babs" Willis
MovieA Successful Calamity
1932
as Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
MovieThose We Love
1932
as May Ballard
MovieThe Lost Squadron
1932
as Follette Marsh
MovieMen of Chance
1931
as Marthe
MovieSmart Woman
1931
as Nancy Gibson
MovieWhite Shoulders
1931
as Norma Selbee
MovieThe Sin Ship
1931
as Frisco Kitty
MovieBehind Office Doors
1931
as Mary Linden
MovieOther Men's Women
1931
as Lily Kulper
MovieThe Royal Bed
1931
as Princess Anne
MovieThe Lash
1930
as Dona Rosita Garcia
MovieHoliday
1930
as Julia Seton
MovieLadies Love Brutes
1930
as Mimi Howell
MovieThe Runaway Bride
1930
as Mary Gray
MovieThe Show of Shows
1929
as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
MovieThe Woman from Hell
1929
as Dee Renaud
MovieNew Year's Eve
1929
as Marjorie Ware
MovieRomance of the Underworld
1928
as Judith Andrews
MovieDry Martini
1928
as Elizabeth Quimby
MovieHeart to Heart
1928
as Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
Movie3-Ring Marriage
1928
as Anna
MovieDressed to Kill
1928
as Jeanne
MovieSailors' Wives
1928
as Carol Trent
MovieNo Place to Go
1927
as Sally Montgomery
MovieThe Rough Riders
1927
as Dolly
MovieRose of the Golden West
1927
as Elena
MovieTwo Arabian Knights
1927
as Mirza
MovieThe Sunset Derby
1927
as Molly Gibson
MovieThe Sea Tiger
1927
as Amy Cortissos
MovieForever After
1926
as Jennie Clayton
MovieDon Juan
1926
as Adriana della Varnese
MovieThe Wise Guy
1926
as Mary
MovieHigh Steppers
1926
as Audrey Nye
MovieScarlet Saint
1925
as Fidele Tridon
MovieThe Pace That Thrills
1925
as Doris
MovieDon Q Son of Zorro
1925
as Dolores de Muro
MoviePlaying with Souls
1925
as Margo
MovieEnticement
1925
as Leonore Bewlay
MovieOh, Doctor!
1925
as Dolores Hicks
MovieInez from Hollywood
1924
as Fay Bartholdi
MovieThe Price of a Party
1924
as Alice Barrows
MovieTo the Ladies
1924
as Undetermined Secondary Role
MovieUnguarded Women
1924
as Helen Castle
MovieThe Fighting American
1924
as Mary Brainard
MovieBeau Brummel
1924
as Lady Margery Alvanley
MovieThe Fighting Coward
1924
as Lucy
MovieWoman-Proof
1923
as Violet Lynwood
MovieThe Marriage Maker
1923
as Vivian Hope-Clarke
MoviePuritan Passions
1923
as Rachel
MovieHollywood
1923
as Mary Astor
MovieThe Bright Shawl
1923
as Narcissa Escobar
MovieSuccess
1923
as Rose Randolph
MovieSecond Fiddle
1923
as Polly Crawford
MovieThe Rapids
1922
as Elsie Worden
MovieThe Man Who Played God
1922
as Young Woman
MovieHope
1922
as Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
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1922
as Irene Mason
MovieThe Young Painter
1922
as Helen Seymour
The Angelus
1922
as Bit Part
MovieWings of the Border
1921
MovieThe Beggar Maid
1921
as Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
My Lady o' the Pines
1921
as Norah Collison
MovieSentimental Tommy
1921
Brother of the Bear
1921
as Marcia Harthorn
Bullets or Ballots
1921
as Bit Part
