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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Acting (126 movies)
Meet Me in St. Louis
1944
The Maltese Falcon
1941
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964
Dodsworth
1936
Midnight
1939
The Palm Beach Story
1942
Other Men's Women
1931
Desert Fury
1947
Act of Violence
1949
Hollywood
1923
White Shoulders
1931
The Little Giant
1933
Little Women
1949
Thousands Cheer
1943
The Prisoner of Zenda
1937
The Great Lie
1941
Red Dust
1932
Fiesta
1947
John Smith
1922
The Man Who Played God
1922
Puritan Passions
1923
To the Ladies
1924
The Price of a Party
1924
Playing with Souls
1925
The Pace That Thrills
1925
No Place to Go
1927
The Wise Guy
1926
The Sunset Derby
1927
Sailors' Wives
1928
New Year's Eve
1929
Return of the Terror
1934
Yesterday and Today
1953
Straight from the Heart
1935
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1960
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
2006
Across the Pacific
1942
A Kiss Before Dying
1956
The Kennel Murder Case
1933
Listen, Darling
1938
The Man with Two Faces
1934
Brigham Young
1940
The Hurricane
1937
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
1936
Don Juan
1926
The Lost Squadron
1932
Any Number Can Play
1949
Holiday
1930
Youngblood Hawke
1964
Cass Timberlane
1947
Return to Peyton Place
1961
Those We Love
1932
Turnabout
1940
Don Q Son of Zorro
1925
Trapped by Television
1936
Blonde Fever
1944
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934
Beau Brummel
1924
This Happy Feeling
1958
A Successful Calamity
1932
Behind Office Doors
1931
The Royal Bed
1931
Romance of the Underworld
1928
I Am a Thief
1934
There's Always a Woman
1938
Smart Woman
1931
Young Ideas
1943
Cynthia
1947
And So They Were Married
1936
Easy to Love
1934
The Power and the Prize
1956
Ladies Love Brutes
1930
Page Miss Glory
1935
Men of Chance
1931
Jennie Gerhardt
1933
Upperworld
1934
The World Changes
1933
Oh, Doctor!
1925
Claudia and David
1946
Dinky
1935
A Stranger in My Arms
1959
The Lash
1930
Paradise for Three
1938
Convention City
1933
The Bright Shawl
1923
Dressed to Kill
1928
The Sin Ship
1931
The Show of Shows
1929
The Runaway Bride
1930
Lady from Nowhere
1936
Heart to Heart
1928
Two Arabian Knights
1927
The Beggar Maid
1921
Red Hot Tires
1935
The Sea Tiger
1927
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973
Woman Against Woman
1938
The Woman from Hell
1929
The Devil's Hairpin
1957
Scarlet Saint
1925
Man of Iron
1935
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