Mary Astor
Acting
🎂 1906-05-03
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.
Cast credits(158)
Mrs. Harriss
1954
Ethel Allen
1954
Martha
1954
Clarissa Bowman
1954
Norma Desmond
1950
Emma Cardwell
1959
Ruth Sparling
1948
Harriet Brand
1948
Sarah Simmons
1956
1948
Martha Lantzinge
1961
Aunt Frances
1961
Florence Roberts
1963
1961
Rose French
1960
Isabelle Lagarde
1953
Esther Brack
1960
Flora Goode
1961
Mrs. Fenimore
1955
Grace Dolan
1955
Margaret Eliot
1950
Mildred Le Brun
1950
Brigid O'Shaughnessy
1941
Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
1936
Nancy Blake
1954
Self
1980
1955
Pat
1949
Jewel Mayhew
1964
Mrs. Roberta Carter
1961
Marmee
1949
Anna Smith
1944
Irene Perry
1964
Self (archive footage)
1997
Virgilnie Beasley
1959
(archive footage)
1976
Mrs. Corliss
1956
Bea Hicks
1953
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
1929
Hilda Lake
1933
Hyllary Jones
1943
Molly Gibson
1927
Queenie Havock
1947
Vida
1935
Isabelle Lagarde
1955
Sandra Kovak
1941
Barbara "Babs" Willis
1932
Delilah Donay
1944
Self (archive footage)
2006
Mrs. Tremaine
1958
Narcissa Escobar
1923
Antoinette de Mauban
1937
Dolores de Muro
1925
The Princess Centimillia
1942
Cynthia Holland
1938
Mary Astor
1923
Self
1934
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1941
Louise Bishop
1947
Bessie Foley
1934
Princess Anne
1931
Mary Brainard
1924
Alberta Marlow
1942
Gladys
1935
Arlene Dale
1933
Mary Ann Young
1940
Marion Manning
1940
Julia Seton
1930
Señora Morales
1947
Dottie Wingate
1938
Judith Andrews
1928
Olga Morgan
1934
Edith Cortright
1936
Edith Farnham
1936
Lola Fraser
1938
Adriana della Varnese
1926
Helene Flammarion
1939
Mrs. George Salt
1956
Fritzi Haller
1947
Mirza
1927
Jessica Wells
1934
Ruth Wayburn
1933
Mrs. Jargin
1957
Adriana (archive footage)
1946
1921
Elizabeth Van Doren
1946
Dona Rosita Garcia
1930
Patricia Sanford
1935
Self (archive footage)
1973
Mary Gray
1930
Fay Bartholdi
1924
Amy Cortissos
1927
Martha Daniels
1935
Young Woman
1922
Mme. DeLaage
1937
Josephine Evans
1943
1957
Frisco Kitty
1931
Mary Linden
1931
Mimi Howell
1930
Leonore Bewlay
1925
Violet Lynwood
1923
Ada
1949
Elena
1927
May Ballard
1932
Charlotte
1934
Hettie Stream
1934
Nancy Gibson
1931
Virginia Claffin Nordholm
1933
Polly Dunlap
1936
Mrs. Irene Mallebre
1938
Lillian Cooper
1936
Mary
1926
Lucy
1924
Jeanne
1928
Marjorie Ware
1929
Follette Marsh
1932
Norma Selbee
1931
Marthe
1931
Kay McGowan
1938
Marian Henshaw
1935
Doris
1925
Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
1932
Sally Montgomery
1927
Jennie Clayton
1926
Lily Kulper
1931
Vivian Hope-Clarke
1923
Dolly
1927
Odette Mauclair
1934
Mrs. Leslie
1960
Elsie Worden
1922
Margo
1925
Helen Castle
1924
Elizabeth Quimby
1928
Dee Renaud
1929
Marcia Harthorn
1921
Rose Randolph
1923
Lady Margery Alvanley
1924
(archive footage)
1953
Dolores Hicks
1925
Irene Mason
1922
Norah Collison
1921
Rachel
1923
Helen Seymour
1922
Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
1928
Letty Pace
1933
Undetermined Secondary Role
1924
Alice Barrows
1924
Anna
1928
Fidele Tridon
1925
Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
1921
1921
Polly Crawford
1923
Carol Trent
1928
Audrey Nye
1926
Bit Part
1921
Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
1922
Bit Part
1922