Known For
Acting
Born
May 03, 1906
Died
Sep 25, 1987
Place of Birth
Quincy, Illinois, USA
Credits
153 titles
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
Filmography
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Self (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood
Self
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Self (archive footage)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Jewel Mayhew
Youngblood Hawke
Irene Perry
Burke's Law
Florence Roberts
Ben Casey
Dr. Kildare
Martha Lantzinge
The Defenders
Flora Goode
Return to Peyton Place
Roberta Carter
Checkmate
Esther Brack
Thriller
Rose French
Journey to the Day
Helen May Whitfield
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Mrs. Leslie
A Stranger in My Arms
Virgilnie Beasley
Rawhide
Emma Cardwell
This Happy Feeling
Mrs. Tremaine
The Littlest Enemy
Mrs. Wickens
The Devil's Hairpin
Mrs. Jargin
The Ninth Day
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Sarah Simmons
The Power and the Prize
Mrs. George Salt
A Kiss Before Dying
Mrs. Corliss
Playwrights '56
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Mrs. Fenimore
The Thief
Isabelle Lagarde
Producers' Showcase
Nancy Blake
Climax!
Mrs. Harriss
Yesterday and Today
(archive footage)
The United States Steel Hour
Isabelle Lagarde
General Electric Theater
Bea Hicks
Lux Video Theatre
Margaret Eliot
Robert Montgomery Presents
Norma Desmond
Any Number Can Play
Ada
Little Women
Marmee
Act of Violence
Pat
Studio One
Ruth Sparling
The Philco Television Playhouse
Cass Timberlane
Queenie Havock
Cynthia
Louise Bishop
Desert Fury
Fritzi Haller
Fiesta
Señora Morales
Okay for Sound
Adriana (archive footage)
Claudia and David
Elizabeth Van Doren
Blonde Fever
Delilah Donay
Meet Me in St. Louis
Anna Smith
Thousands Cheer
Hyllary Jones
Young Ideas
Josephine Evans