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

The Philco Television Playhouse

Robert Montgomery Presents

Climax!

Climax!

Climax!

Climax!

Dr. Kildare

Dr. Kildare

All Movies (134)

• The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird2006 · as Self (archive footage)
• Bogart: The Untold Story1997 · as Self (archive footage)
• That's Entertainment, Part II1976 · as (archive footage)
• The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli1973 · as Self (archive footage)
• Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte1964 · as Jewel Mayhew
• Youngblood Hawke1964 · as Irene Perry
• Return to Peyton Place1961 · as Roberta Carter
• Journey to the Day1960 · as Helen May Whitfield
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro1960 · as Mrs. Leslie
• A Stranger in My Arms1959 · as Virgilnie Beasley
• This Happy Feeling1958 · as Mrs. Tremaine
• The Littlest Enemy1958 · as Mrs. Wickens
• The Devil's Hairpin1957 · as Mrs. Jargin
• The Ninth Day1957
• The Power and the Prize1956 · as Mrs. George Salt
• A Kiss Before Dying1956 · as Mrs. Corliss
• The Thief1955 · as Isabelle Lagarde
• Yesterday and Today1953 · as (archive footage)
• Any Number Can Play1949 · as Ada
• Little Women1949 · as Marmee
• Act of Violence1949 · as Pat
• Cass Timberlane1947 · as Queenie Havock
• Cynthia1947 · as Louise Bishop
• Desert Fury1947 · as Fritzi Haller
• Fiesta1947 · as Señora Morales
• Okay for Sound1946 · as Adriana (archive footage)
• Claudia and David1946 · as Elizabeth Van Doren
• Blonde Fever1944 · as Delilah Donay
• Meet Me in St. Louis1944 · as Anna Smith
• Thousands Cheer1943 · as Hyllary Jones
• Young Ideas1943 · as Josephine Evans
• Across the Pacific1942 · as Alberta Marlow
• The Palm Beach Story1942 · as The Princess Centimillia
• Breakdowns of 19411941 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Maltese Falcon1941 · as Brigid O'Shaughnessy
• The Great Lie1941 · as Sandra Kovak
• Brigham Young1940 · as Mary Ann Young
• Turnabout1940 · as Marion Manning
• Midnight1939 · as Helene Flammarion
• Listen, Darling1938 · as Dottie Wingate
• Woman Against Woman1938 · as Cynthia Holland
• Paradise for Three1938 · as Mrs. Irene Mallebre
• There's Always a Woman1938 · as Lola Fraser
• No Time to Marry1938 · as Kay McGowan
• The Hurricane1937 · as Mme. DeLaage
• The Prisoner of Zenda1937 · as Antoinette de Mauban
• Lady from Nowhere1936 · as Polly Dunlap
• Dodsworth1936 · as Edith Cortright
• Trapped by Television1936 · as Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
• And So They Were Married1936 · as Edith Farnham
• The Murder of Dr. Harrigan1936 · as Lillian Cooper
• Man of Iron1935 · as Vida
• Page Miss Glory1935 · as Gladys
• Dinky1935 · as Martha Daniels
• Straight from the Heart1935 · as Marian Henshaw
• Red Hot Tires1935 · as Patricia Sanford
• I Am a Thief1934 · as Odette Mauclair
• The Hollywood Gad-About1934 · as Self
• The Case of the Howling Dog1934 · as Bessie Foley
• The Man with Two Faces1934 · as Jessica Wells
• Return of the Terror1934 · as Olga Morgan
• Upperworld1934 · as Hettie Stream
• Easy to Love1934 · as Charlotte
• Convention City1933 · as Arlene Dale
• The World Changes1933 · as Virginia Claffin Nordholm
• The Kennel Murder Case1933 · as Hilda Lake
• Jennie Gerhardt1933 · as Letty Pace
• The Little Giant1933 · as Ruth Wayburn
• Red Dust1932 · as Barbara "Babs" Willis
• A Successful Calamity1932 · as Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
• Those We Love1932 · as May Ballard
• The Lost Squadron1932 · as Follette Marsh
• Men of Chance1931 · as Marthe
• Smart Woman1931 · as Nancy Gibson
• White Shoulders1931 · as Norma Selbee
• The Sin Ship1931 · as Frisco Kitty
• Behind Office Doors1931 · as Mary Linden
• Other Men's Women1931 · as Lily Kulper
• The Royal Bed1931 · as Princess Anne
• The Lash1930 · as Dona Rosita Garcia
• Holiday1930 · as Julia Seton
• Ladies Love Brutes1930 · as Mimi Howell
• The Runaway Bride1930 · as Mary Gray
• The Show of Shows1929 · as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
• The Woman from Hell1929 · as Dee Renaud
• New Year's Eve1929 · as Marjorie Ware
• Romance of the Underworld1928 · as Judith Andrews
• Dry Martini1928 · as Elizabeth Quimby
• Heart to Heart1928 · as Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
• 3-Ring Marriage1928 · as Anna
• Dressed to Kill1928 · as Jeanne
• Sailors' Wives1928 · as Carol Trent
• No Place to Go1927 · as Sally Montgomery
• The Rough Riders1927 · as Dolly
• Rose of the Golden West1927 · as Elena
• Two Arabian Knights1927 · as Mirza
• The Sunset Derby1927 · as Molly Gibson
• The Sea Tiger1927 · as Amy Cortissos
• Forever After1926 · as Jennie Clayton
• Don Juan1926 · as Adriana della Varnese
• The Wise Guy1926 · as Mary
• High Steppers1926 · as Audrey Nye
• Scarlet Saint1925 · as Fidele Tridon
• The Pace That Thrills1925 · as Doris
• Don Q Son of Zorro1925 · as Dolores de Muro
• Playing with Souls1925 · as Margo
• Enticement1925 · as Leonore Bewlay
• Oh, Doctor!1925 · as Dolores Hicks
• Inez from Hollywood1924 · as Fay Bartholdi
• The Price of a Party1924 · as Alice Barrows
• To the Ladies1924 · as Undetermined Secondary Role
• Unguarded Women1924 · as Helen Castle
• The Fighting American1924 · as Mary Brainard
• Beau Brummel1924 · as Lady Margery Alvanley
• The Fighting Coward1924 · as Lucy
• Woman-Proof1923 · as Violet Lynwood
• The Marriage Maker1923 · as Vivian Hope-Clarke
• Puritan Passions1923 · as Rachel
• Hollywood1923 · as Mary Astor
• The Bright Shawl1923 · as Narcissa Escobar
• Success1923 · as Rose Randolph
• Second Fiddle1923 · as Polly Crawford
• The Rapids1922 · as Elsie Worden
• The Man Who Played God1922 · as Young Woman
• Hope1922 · as Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
• John Smith1922 · as Irene Mason
• The Young Painter1922 · as Helen Seymour
• The Angelus1922 · as Bit Part
• Wings of the Border1921
• The Beggar Maid1921 · as Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
• My Lady o' the Pines1921 · as Norah Collison
• Sentimental Tommy1921
• Brother of the Bear1921 · as Marcia Harthorn
• Bullets or Ballots1921 · as Bit Part

All TV Shows (26)

• Hollywood1980 · as Self
• Burke's Law1963 · as Florence Roberts
• Ben Casey1961
• Dr. Kildare1961 · as Martha Lantzinge
• Dr. Kildare1961 · as Aunt Frances
• The Defenders1961 · as Flora Goode
• Checkmate1960 · as Esther Brack
• Thriller1960 · as Rose French
• Rawhide1959 · as Emma Cardwell
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre1956 · as Sarah Simmons
• Playwrights '561955
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955 · as Mrs. Fenimore
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955 · as Grace Dolan
• Producers' Showcase1954 · as Nancy Blake
• Climax!1954 · as Mrs. Harriss
• Climax!1954 · as Ethel Allen
• Climax!1954 · as Martha
• Climax!1954 · as Clarissa Bowman
• The United States Steel Hour1953 · as Isabelle Lagarde
• General Electric Theater1953 · as Bea Hicks
• Lux Video Theatre1950 · as Margaret Eliot
• Lux Video Theatre1950 · as Mildred Le Brun
• Robert Montgomery Presents1950 · as Norma Desmond
• Studio One1948 · as Ruth Sparling
• Studio One1948 · as Harriet Brand
• The Philco Television Playhouse1948