Mary Astor
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."
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Acting
Movie
The Maltese Falcon
as Brigid O'Shaughnessy
1941
Movie
Meet Me in St. Louis
as Anna Smith
1944
Movie
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
as Jewel Mayhew
1964
TV
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Mrs. Fenimore
1955
TV
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Grace Dolan
1955
Movie
Little Women
as Marmee
1949
Movie
The Palm Beach Story
as The Princess Centimillia
1942
Movie
Dodsworth
as Edith Cortright
1936
Movie
Act of Violence
as Pat
1949
Movie
Midnight
as Helene Flammarion
1939
Movie
Across the Pacific
as Alberta Marlow
1942
Movie
Red Dust
as Barbara "Babs" Willis
1932
Movie
A Kiss Before Dying
as Mrs. Corliss
1956
Movie
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Antoinette de Mauban
1937
Movie
The Kennel Murder Case
as Hilda Lake
1933
Movie
The Hurricane
as Mme. DeLaage
1937
Movie
The Great Lie
as Sandra Kovak
1941
TV
Rawhide
as Emma Cardwell
1959
Movie
Return to Peyton Place
as Roberta Carter
1961
Movie
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1976
Movie
Desert Fury
as Fritzi Haller
1947
Movie
Two Arabian Knights
as Mirza
1927
Movie
Other Men's Women
as Lily Kulper
1931
Movie
Holiday
as Julia Seton
1930