Mary Astor

Acting · 1.0 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 Show of Shows

19296.6

Brigham Young

19404.6

The Great Lie

19417.0

That's Entertainment, Part II

19767.0

Convention City

19334.2

Cass Timberlane

19476.0

Breakdowns of 1941

19417.0

The Thief

19554.0

Desert Fury

19475.9

Sentimental Tommy

19217.0

Act of Violence

19496.9

A Kiss Before Dying

19566.3

The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

20067.8

Red Dust

19326.9

The Fighting American

19246.8

Don Juan

19266.6

Across the Pacific

19426.6

Claudia and David

19467.5

The Prisoner of Zenda

19377.5

Midnight

19397.4

Fiesta

19476.2

Dodsworth

19367.1

The Palm Beach Story

19427.0

The Hurricane

19376.7

The Rapids

19227.0

Return to Peyton Place

19616.6

White Shoulders

193110.0

Other Men's Women

19315.7

Don Q Son of Zorro

19256.7

There's Always a Woman

19386.0

Youngblood Hawke

19646.3

3-Ring Marriage

1928

The Hollywood Gad-About

19346.0

The Ninth Day

1957

The World Changes

19334.8

Turnabout

19406.0

I Am a Thief

19346.2

Hope

19228.0

Holiday

19306.2

Cynthia

19476.2

Unguarded Women

19247.0

Thousands Cheer

19436.4

Listen, Darling

19386.7

The Kennel Murder Case

19336.1

Any Number Can Play

19496.9

Rose of the Golden West

19279.0

This Happy Feeling

19584.8

The Power and the Prize

19566.3

A Stranger in My Arms

19594.2

Young Ideas

19435.3

Beau Brummel

19247.0

The Murder of Dr. Harrigan

19365.8

The Case of the Howling Dog

19346.3

Oh, Doctor!

19256.3

Okay for Sound

19466.7

Romance of the Underworld

19285.8

The Man with Two Faces

19346.8

Page Miss Glory

19356.7

Two Arabian Knights

19275.8

The Bright Shawl

19237.0

Men of Chance

19316.0

The Little Giant

19337.0

The Wise Guy

19267.0

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

19737.0

Behind Office Doors

19314.9

Woman Against Woman

19387.0

Hollywood

19239.0

Upperworld

19346.1

The Beggar Maid

19217.3

Easy to Love

19345.1

The Devil's Hairpin

19576.0

Bogart: The Untold Story

1997

Smart Woman

19315.4

The Sea Tiger

192710.0

Straight from the Heart

19359.0

Inez from Hollywood

19248.0

The Pace That Thrills

19259.0

Yesterday and Today

19537.0

No Time to Marry

19387.0

The Woman from Hell

19298.0

Dry Martini

19287.0

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

1960

Blonde Fever

19444.4

The Littlest Enemy

1958

Trapped by Television

19366.9

High Steppers

19269.0

The Lost Squadron

19326.5

Man of Iron

19357.0

Dinky

19357.3

Return of the Terror

19346.5

To the Ladies

19248.0

The Rough Riders

19277.0

The Lash

19306.5

Woman-Proof

19238.0

A Successful Calamity

19325.6

The Price of a Party

19249.0

The Fighting Coward

19245.5

New Year's Eve

19297.0

Heart to Heart

19287.0

And So They Were Married

19366.4

Journey to the Day

1960

Red Hot Tires

19356.0

The Runaway Bride

19306.2

The Royal Bed

19314.3

Lady from Nowhere

19369.0

Enticement

19257.0

Success

192310.0

Paradise for Three

19387.4

Dressed to Kill

19288.0

The Man Who Played God

19227.0

Those We Love

19326.5

Ladies Love Brutes

19306.4

No Place to Go

19278.0

Scarlet Saint

19259.0

Playing with Souls

19259.0

Second Fiddle

19238.0

Sailors' Wives

19288.0

Forever After

19268.0

John Smith

19227.0

The Marriage Maker

19237.0

Jennie Gerhardt

19335.7

Puritan Passions

19238.0

Wings of the Border

19219.0

The Sunset Derby

19278.0

Brother of the Bear

19219.0

The Sin Ship

19315.8

My Lady o' the Pines

19216.0

The Young Painter

192210.0

The Angelus

19229.0

Bullets or Ballots

19217.0