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Gertrude Astor
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Gertrude Astor (Born Gertrude Eyster November 9, 1887 – November 9, 1977) was an American motion picture character actress, who began her career playing trombone on a riverboat.
Born in Lakewood, Ohio, Astor at the age of 12 ran off and joined a woman's band as a trombone player and toured the states. In New York she left the band to obtain film work and got a job as an extra before her career took off. Astor was a prolific performer, between 1915 and 1962 she appeared in over 250 movies. Her first known credit is in a Biograph short in 1915. She then became a contract player at Universal. A tall, angular and beautiful woman, Astor frequently towered over the leading men of the era; thus, …
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Gertrude Astor (Born Gertrude Eyster November 9, 1887 – November 9, 1977) was an American motion picture character actress, who began her career playing trombone on a riverboat. Born in Lakewood, Ohio, Astor at the age of 12 ran off and joined a woman's band as a trombone player and toured the states. In New York she left the band to obtain film work and got a job as an extra before her career took off. Astor was a prolific performer, between 1915 and 1962 she appeared in over 250 movies. Her first known credit is in a Biograph short in 1915. She then became a contract player at Universal. A tall, angular and beautiful woman, Astor frequently towered over the leading men of the era; thus, she was most frequently utilized in comedy roles as aristocrats, golddiggers and "heroine's best pal". Her best-known silent appearances were as the visiting stage star in Stage Struck (1925) with Gloria Swanson, as the vamp who plants stolen money on Harry Langdon in The Strong Man (1926), and as Laura LaPlante's wisecracking travelling companion in The Cat and the Canary (1927). Astor worked prolifically at Hal Roach studios with such headliners as Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, and especially Charley Chase. She was also kept busy at Columbia Pictures' short subjects unit. She continued to play bits in feature films throughout the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. She was briefly glimpsed as the first murder victim in the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Scarlet Claw and was among the ranks of dress extras in 1956's Around the World in Eighty Days. Her last appearance was in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. In her later years, Astor was a welcome guest at several Sons of the Desert gatherings, and became an honorary member of the Way Out West tent. She died in Woodland Hills, California from a stroke. She is interred in the Abbey of Psalms in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, CA.
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BODY OF WORK
Gertrude Astor's Filmography
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Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
as Townswoman
The Sound of Music
as Party Guest (uncredited)
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
as Denver Party Guest (uncredited)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Townswoman (uncredited)
The Devil's Hand
as The Elderly Cultist
Two Rode Together
as Mrs. Wringle (uncredited)
All in a Night's Work
as Customer (uncredited)
Sergeant Rutledge
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
The Best of Everything
as Leading Woman in Play (uncredited)
The Tingler
as Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
The Horse Soldiers
as Townswoman (uncredited)
The Female Animal
as Actress on Movie Set (uncredited)
My Man Godfrey
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Around the World in 80 Days
as Extra (uncredited)
The Virgin Queen
as Lady-in-Waiting - 2nd Group
Wichita
as Saloon Madam (uncredited)
Daddy Long Legs
as Art Gallery Patron (uncredited)
Deep in My Heart
as Dorothy's Nurse (uncredited)
A Star Is Born
as Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
Scared Stiff
as Man with Spaghetti's Wife (uncredited)
Angel Face
as Matron (uncredited)
The Old West
as Townswoman (uncredited)
The Merry Widow
as Reception Guest (uncredited)
Paula
as Mrs. Brown (uncredited)
Fort Osage
as Townswoman (uncredited)
Scandal Sheet
as Neighbor (uncredited)
Thunder on the Hill
as Village Woman (uncredited)
When Worlds Collide
as Traveler (uncredited)
A Place in the Sun
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Apache Drums
as Townswoman (uncredited)
All About Eve
as Sarah Siddons Awards Guest (uncredited)
Again Pioneers
as Mrs. Jans
Bunco Squad
as Club Patron (uncredited)
Sunset Boulevard
as Courtier (uncredited)
Caged
as Inmate (uncredited)
Montana
as Townswoman (uncredited)
Woman in Hiding
as Woman in Drugstore (uncredited)
The File on Thelma Jordon
as Juror (uncredited)
The Doolins of Oklahoma
as Saloon Girl (uncredited)
3 Godfathers
as Saloon Girl (uncredited)
My Dear Secretary
as Miss Gee (uncredited)
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
as Mrs. Howard
Music Man
as Mrs. Larkin
Here Comes Trouble
as Woman with Dog (uncredited)
Sitting Pretty
as Townswoman (uncredited)
Monsieur Verdoux
as Garden Party Guest (uncredited)
Fun on a Weekend
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Calcutta
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
The Best Years of Our Lives
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Sister Kenny
as Doctor (uncredited)
Crack-Up
as Nagging Wife on Train (Uncredited)
Dragonwyck
as Nurse (uncredited)
Leave Her to Heaven
as Prison Matron (uncredited)
Dick Tracy
as Woman (uncredited)
An Angel Comes To Brooklyn
as Eva Tanguay (uncredited)
Girls of the Big House
as Railroad Matron
Swingin' on a Rainbow
as Bit Part (uncredited)
The Climax
as Woman in Audience Behind Franz (Uncredited)
The Scarlet Claw
Weird Woman
as Party Guest (uncredited)
The Kansan
as Blonde Townswoman
The Avenging Rider
as Martha
Idaho
as Party Guest
Lost Canyon
as Mrs. Anson
Moontide
as Woman (uncredited)
Reap the Wild Wind
as Ball Guest (uncredited)
No Poster
Frisco Lil
The Wolf Man
as Townswoman (uncredited)
Hold Back the Dawn
as Young Woman in Bar (uncredited)
Misbehaving Husbands
as Gossiping Friend
The Doctor Takes a Wife
as Extra (uncredited)
The Llano Kid
as Saloon Hostess
$1,000 a Touchdown
as McGlen Wife (uncredited)
Dust Be My Destiny
as Dame (uncredited)
The Women
as Mud Bath Nurse (uncredited)
Tassels in the Air
as Louella Pindell (uncredited)
The Big Broadcast of 1938
as Woman (uncredited)
Wells Fargo
as Pioneer Woman
All Over Town
as Mamie
Easy Living
as Saleswoman (uncredited)
Rich Relations
Empty Saddles
as Eloise Hayes
Great Guy
as Party Guest (Uncredited)
Wives Never Know
as Mrs. Merchant (uncredited)
Postal Inspector
as Woman with Drumsticks (uncredited)
San Francisco
as Drunk's Girl (uncredited)
No Poster
I Don't Remember
as Sophie Glick
Manhattan Monkey Business
as Gwendolyn
Bad Boy
It's in the Air
as (uncredited)
No Poster
Cappy Ricks Returns
as Speaker (uncredited)
Here Comes the Band
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Honeymoon Limited
as Lady Devonshire
No More Ladies
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Border Brigands
as Big Six -Saloon Girl
The Drunkard
as Peggy
Northern Frontier
as Mae
The Chases of Pimple Street
as Gertrude Astor - Lucas' Fiancee (uncredited)
Washee Ironee
as Woman at Party
No Poster
Wedding Belles
I'll Take Vanilla
as Mom
Guilty Parents
as Marie
Carnival Lady
as Zandra, Fortune Teller
Crook's Tour
as Mrs Dorigan
Ship of Wanted Men
as Vera
I Have Lived
as Harriet Naisson
No Poster
The Plumber and the Lady
as Mrs. Otto Mauser
Wine, Women and Song
as Jennie Tilson
Flaming Gold
as Escort Service Madam
No Poster
Western Limited
as Mrs. Winters
High Hats and Low Brows
as Mrs. Billingsgate
They Never Come Back
as Kate
While Paris Sleeps
In Walked Charley
as Gertrude Henderson
No Poster
Running Hollywood
as Gertrude Astor
No Poster
Poker Widows
as Mrs. Thomas Regan
Come Clean
as Mrs. Hardy
Hell Bound
as Rosie
No Poster
Live and Learn
as Mrs. Brown
Dames Ahoy
as The Blonde
Be Yourself!
as Lillian
Untamed
as Mrs. Mason
Frozen Justice
as Moosehide Kate
Twin Beds
as Mrs. Solari
The Fall of Eve
as Mrs. Ford
Two Weeks Off
as Agnes
The Fatal Warning
Synthetic Sin
as Sheila Kelly
Chasing Husbands
A Woman of Affairs
as Party Guest (uncredited)
The Butter and Egg Man
as Fanny Lehman
Stocks and Blondes
as Goldie
Hit of the Show
as Trece
Five and Ten Cent Annie
as Blonde
The Family Group
Rose-Marie
as Wanda
The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
as Paulette
Oh, What a Man!
as The Bandit
Ginsberg the Great
as Sappho
The Small Bachelor
as Fanny
Uncle Tom's Cabin
as Mrs. St. Clare (uncredited)
The Irresistible Lover
as Dolly Carleton
The Cat and the Canary
as Cecily
The Taxi Dancer
as Kitty Lane
Lightning Lariats
as Girl
The Cheerful Fraud
as Rose
The Strong Man
as Lily de Broadway
Sin Cargo
as Mary Wickham
The Country Beyond
as Mrs. Andrews
Tell 'Em Nothing
as Mrs. Gladstone
The Old Soak
as Sylvia De Costa
Don Juan's 3 Nights
as Baroness von Minden
The Boy Friend
as Mrs. White
Kiki
as Paulette Mascar
Wife Tamers
as Mrs. Barry
Dizzy Daddies
as A Former Flame
Behind the Front
as French barmaid
No Poster
Ship of Souls
as Doris Barnes
Stage Struck
as Lillian Lyons
Satan in Sables
as Dolores Sierra
No Poster
Borrowed Finery
as Maisie
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
as Greta
Kentucky Pride
as Mrs. Beaumont
Pursued
as Madame La Grande
The Charmer
as Bertha Sedgwick
The Verdict
as Mrs. Ronsard
Folly of Youth
as Evelyn Cartwright
No Poster
The Reckless Sex
as Lucile Dupré
Laughing Ladies
as The Married Man's Wife
Robes of Sin
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
as 'Kansas' Lou
The Silent Watcher
as Mrs. Steele
All's Swell on the Ocean
No Poster
The Torrent
as The Cast-Off
Fight and Win
Broadway or Bust
as Mrs. Dean Smythe
Secrets
as Mrs. Manwaring
The Wanters
as Mrs. Van Pelt
Flaming Youth
as Annie
The Six-Fifty
as Christine Palmer
Hollywood
as Gertrude Astor
Rupert of Hentzau
as Paula
The Ne'er-Do-Well
as Edith Cortlandt
Alice Adams
as Mildred Palmer
The Ninety and Nine
as Kate Van Dyke
You Never Know
as Miriam Folansbee
The Kentucky Derby
as Helen Gordon
The Impossible Mrs. Bellew
as Alice Granville
Lorna Doone
as Countess of Brandir (uncredited)
Skin Deep
as Mrs. Carlson
Hurricane's Gal
as Phyllis Fairfield
Beyond the Rocks
as Morella Winmarleigh
The Wall Flower
as Pamela Shiel
Seeing's Believing
as Aunt Sue
Her Mad Bargain
as Ruth Beresford
Through the Back Door
as Louise Reeves
The Concert
as Eva
The Branding Iron
as Betty Morena
Occasionally Yours
as Mona
Burning Daylight
as Lucille
The Lion Man
as Celeste La Rue
The Wicked Darling
as Adele Hoyt
Loot
as Lady Gwendolyn
Pretty Smooth
as Mrs. Hanson
The Delicious Little Devil
as Auditioning Dancer (uncredited)
What Am I Bid?
as Diana Newlands
The Brazen Beauty
as Mrs. Augusta Van Ruysdael
The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit
as Stella Carter
No Poster
Vamping the Vamp
as Thedeska - The Vamp
Bucking Broadway
as Gladys (uncredited)
The Lash of Power
as Phyllis Ward
The Price of a Good Time
as Mis Schyler
Bondage
as Eugenia Darth
The Girl Who Won Out
as Mrs. Walsh
Cheyenne's Pal
as Dancehall girl
The Rescue
as Mrs. Hendricks
The Gray Ghost
as Lady Gwendolyn
The Little Orphan
as Emmeline Warren
Polly Redhead
as Lady Caroline
The Scarlet Crystal
as Helen Forbes
The Devil's Pay Day
as Hazel Davidson
No Poster
Bombs and Banknotes
as His Daughter
Under Two Flags
as Venetia