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