Mary Astor
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
Robert Montgomery Presents
Norma Desmond
1950
Series
Climax!
Mrs. Harriss
1954
Series
Climax!
Ethel Allen
1954
Series
Climax!
Martha
1954
Series
Climax!
Clarissa Bowman
1954
Series
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
Series
Ben Casey
1961
Series
Dr. Kildare
Martha Lantzinge
1961
Series
Dr. Kildare
Aunt Frances
1961
Series
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Sarah Simmons
1956
Series
Studio One
Ruth Sparling
1948
Series
Studio One
Harriet Brand
1948
Series
Rawhide
Emma Cardwell
1959
Series
Burke's Law
Florence Roberts
1963
Series
The Defenders
Flora Goode
1961
Series
Thriller
Rose French
1960
Series
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Mrs. Fenimore
1955
Series
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Grace Dolan
1955
Producers' Showcase
Nancy Blake
1954
Lux Video Theatre
Margaret Eliot
1950
Lux Video Theatre
Mildred Le Brun
1950
Series
Checkmate
Esther Brack
1960
Series
The United States Steel Hour
Isabelle Lagarde
1953
Film
Little Women
Marmee
1949
Playwrights '56
1955
Film
The Maltese Falcon
Brigid O'Shaughnessy
1941
Series
General Electric Theater
Bea Hicks
1953
Series
Hollywood
Self
1980
Film
Fiesta
Señora Morales
1947
Film
Desert Fury
Fritzi Haller
1947
Film
Meet Me in St. Louis
Anna Smith
1944
Film
Act of Violence
Pat
1949
Film
Dodsworth
Edith Cortright
1936
Film
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Jewel Mayhew
1964
Film
The Hurricane
Mme. DeLaage
1937
Film
Red Dust
Barbara "Babs" Willis
1932
Film
Cynthia
Louise Bishop
1947
Film
Turnabout
Marion Manning
1940
Film
The Prisoner of Zenda
Antoinette de Mauban
1937
Film
Don Juan
Adriana della Varnese
1926
Film
Return to Peyton Place
Roberta Carter
1961
Film
The Show of Shows
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
1929
Film
The World Changes
Virginia Claffin Nordholm
1933
Film
The Lash
Dona Rosita Garcia
1930
Film
Beau Brummel
Lady Margery Alvanley
1924
Film
Youngblood Hawke
Irene Perry
1964
Film
The Palm Beach Story
The Princess Centimillia
1942
Film
The Rapids
Elsie Worden
1922
Film
White Shoulders
Norma Selbee
1931
Film
The Case of the Howling Dog
Bessie Foley
1934
Film
A Kiss Before Dying
Mrs. Corliss
1956
Film
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
1976
Film
This Happy Feeling
Mrs. Tremaine
1958
Film
Bogart: The Untold Story
Self (archive footage)
1997
Film
The Fighting American
Mary Brainard
1924
Film
Across the Pacific
Alberta Marlow
1942
Film
The Great Lie
Sandra Kovak
1941
Film
Other Men's Women
Lily Kulper
1931
Film
The Kennel Murder Case
Hilda Lake
1933
Film
Holiday
Julia Seton
1930
Film
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Self (archive footage)
2006
Film
Brigham Young
Mary Ann Young
1940
Film
Midnight
Helene Flammarion
1939
Film
Breakdowns of 1941
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1941
Film
Men of Chance
Marthe
1931
Film
Paradise for Three
Mrs. Irene Mallebre
1938
Film
A Successful Calamity
Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
1932
Film
Dinky
Martha Daniels
1935
Film
Oh, Doctor!
Dolores Hicks
1925
Film
Okay for Sound
Adriana (archive footage)
1946
Film
Upperworld
Hettie Stream
1934
Film
Behind Office Doors
Mary Linden
1931
Film
Any Number Can Play
Ada
1949
Film
The Thief
Isabelle Lagarde
1955
Film
Woman Against Woman
Cynthia Holland
1938
Film
Jennie Gerhardt
Letty Pace
1933
Film
Convention City
Arlene Dale
1933
Film
Blonde Fever
Delilah Donay
1944
Film
Don Q Son of Zorro
Dolores de Muro
1925
Film
The Fighting Coward
Lucy
1924
Film
I Am a Thief
Odette Mauclair
1934
Film
Cass Timberlane
Queenie Havock
1947
Film
The Wise Guy
Mary
1926
Film
Hollywood
Mary Astor
1923
Film
The Rough Riders
Dolly
1927
Film
Dry Martini
Elizabeth Quimby
1928
Film
Easy to Love
Charlotte
1934
Film
Listen, Darling
Dottie Wingate
1938
Film
The Man with Two Faces
Jessica Wells
1934
Film
A Stranger in My Arms
Virgilnie Beasley
1959
Film
There's Always a Woman
Lola Fraser
1938
Film
Woman-Proof
Violet Lynwood
1923
Film
Thousands Cheer
Hyllary Jones
1943
Film
Young Ideas
Josephine Evans
1943
Film
Claudia and David
Elizabeth Van Doren
1946
Film
Rose of the Golden West
Elena
1927
Film
Sailors' Wives
Carol Trent
1928
Film
The Power and the Prize
Mrs. George Salt
1956
Film
And So They Were Married
Edith Farnham
1936
Film
To the Ladies
Undetermined Secondary Role
1924
Film
Playing with Souls
Margo
1925
Film
The Ninth Day
1957
Film
The Lost Squadron
Follette Marsh
1932
Film
Romance of the Underworld
Judith Andrews
1928
Film
Lady from Nowhere
Polly Dunlap
1936
Film
The Devil's Hairpin
Mrs. Jargin
1957
Film
Return of the Terror
Olga Morgan
1934
Film
The Pace That Thrills
Doris
1925
Film
Those We Love
May Ballard
1932
Film
Page Miss Glory
Gladys
1935
Film
Straight from the Heart
Marian Henshaw
1935
Film
Two Arabian Knights
Mirza
1927
Film
The Little Giant
Ruth Wayburn
1933
Film
Dressed to Kill
Jeanne
1928
Film
Man of Iron
Vida
1935
Film
The Sea Tiger
Amy Cortissos
1927
Film
The Bright Shawl
Narcissa Escobar
1923
Film
The Hollywood Gad-About
Self
1934
Film
The Runaway Bride
Mary Gray
1930
Film
The Royal Bed
Princess Anne
1931
Film
The Sunset Derby
Molly Gibson
1927
Film
Yesterday and Today
(archive footage)
1953
Film
Ladies Love Brutes
Mimi Howell
1930
Film
High Steppers
Audrey Nye
1926
Film
Red Hot Tires
Patricia Sanford
1935
Film
New Year's Eve
Marjorie Ware
1929
Film
3-Ring Marriage
Anna
1928
Film
Puritan Passions
Rachel
1923
Film
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Mrs. Leslie
1960
Film
Success
Rose Randolph
1923
Film
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Self (archive footage)
1973
Brother of the Bear
Marcia Harthorn
1921
Film
Forever After
Jennie Clayton
1926
Film
The Sin Ship
Frisco Kitty
1931
Film
Smart Woman
Nancy Gibson
1931
Film
The Marriage Maker
Vivian Hope-Clarke
1923
Film
Trapped by Television
Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
1936
Film
The Price of a Party
Alice Barrows
1924
Film
No Place to Go
Sally Montgomery
1927
Film
Scarlet Saint
Fidele Tridon
1925
Film
John Smith
Irene Mason
1922
Film
No Time to Marry
Kay McGowan
1938
Film
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Lillian Cooper
1936
Film
Enticement
Leonore Bewlay
1925
Film
Inez from Hollywood
Fay Bartholdi
1924
Film
Sentimental Tommy
1921
Film
The Man Who Played God
Young Woman
1922
Film
Second Fiddle
Polly Crawford
1923
Film
Unguarded Women
Helen Castle
1924
Film
Journey to the Day
Helen May Whitfield
1960
Film
The Woman from Hell
Dee Renaud
1929
Film
Hope
Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
1922
Film
Heart to Heart
Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
1928
The Littlest Enemy
Mrs. Wickens
1958
Film
Wings of the Border
1921
Film
The Young Painter
Helen Seymour
1922
My Lady o' the Pines
Norah Collison
1921
Film
The Beggar Maid
Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
1921
Bullets or Ballots
Bit Part
1921
The Angelus
Bit Part
1922