Mary Astor
Acting
🎂 1906-05-03
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.
Cast credits(158)
Norma Desmond
1950
Isabelle Lagarde
1953
Florence Roberts
1963
Martha Lantzinge
1961
Aunt Frances
1961
Ruth Sparling
1948
Harriet Brand
1948
Rose French
1960
Flora Goode
1961
1948
Sarah Simmons
1956
1961
Emma Cardwell
1959
Mrs. Harriss
1954
Ethel Allen
1954
Martha
1954
Clarissa Bowman
1954
Mrs. Fenimore
1955
Grace Dolan
1955
Esther Brack
1960
Self
1980
Margaret Eliot
1950
Mildred Le Brun
1950
Nancy Blake
1954
1955
Bea Hicks
1953
Mary Astor
1923
Mirza
1927
Brigid O'Shaughnessy
1941
Anna Smith
1944
Jewel Mayhew
1964
Marmee
1949
Edith Cortright
1936
Hilda Lake
1933
Helene Flammarion
1939
(archive footage)
1976
The Princess Centimillia
1942
Princess Anne
1931
Dolores Hicks
1925
Lola Fraser
1938
Mary Ann Young
1940
Mme. DeLaage
1937
Mrs. Corliss
1956
Pat
1949
Mary Linden
1931
Bessie Foley
1934
Fritzi Haller
1947
Sandra Kovak
1941
Adriana della Varnese
1926
1921
Lillian Cooper
1936
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
1929
Antoinette de Mauban
1937
Hettie Stream
1934
Mrs. Tremaine
1958
Alberta Marlow
1942
Marian Henshaw
1935
Delilah Donay
1944
Audrey Nye
1926
Adriana (archive footage)
1946
Helen Castle
1924
Irene Perry
1964
Louise Bishop
1947
Patricia Sanford
1935
Marion Manning
1940
Barbara "Babs" Willis
1932
Lady Margery Alvanley
1924
Josephine Evans
1943
Gladys
1935
Dolores de Muro
1925
Dottie Wingate
1938
Mrs. George Salt
1956
Fay Bartholdi
1924
Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
1928
Kay McGowan
1938
Queenie Havock
1947
Ada
1949
Olga Morgan
1934
Mrs. Roberta Carter
1961
Hyllary Jones
1943
Nancy Gibson
1931
Mary Gray
1930
Lily Kulper
1931
Self (archive footage)
1997
Señora Morales
1947
Edith Farnham
1936
Margo
1925
Leonore Bewlay
1925
Mary Brainard
1924
Arlene Dale
1933
Elizabeth Van Doren
1946
Virginia Claffin Nordholm
1933
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1941
Julia Seton
1930
Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
1921
Jessica Wells
1934
Carol Trent
1928
Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
1932
Jeanne
1928
Marcia Harthorn
1921
Mrs. Jargin
1957
Self (archive footage)
2006
Elizabeth Quimby
1928
Cynthia Holland
1938
Vida
1935
Odette Mauclair
1934
Martha Daniels
1935
Doris
1925
Charlotte
1934
Self (archive footage)
1973
Rachel
1923
Alice Barrows
1924
Follette Marsh
1932
1957
Judith Andrews
1928
Norma Selbee
1931
Self
1934
Ruth Wayburn
1933
Letty Pace
1933
Polly Dunlap
1936
Dee Renaud
1929
May Ballard
1932
Undetermined Secondary Role
1924
Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
1922
Dona Rosita Garcia
1930
Polly Crawford
1923
Virgilnie Beasley
1959
Mrs. Leslie
1960
Mrs. Irene Mallebre
1938
(archive footage)
1953
Rose Randolph
1923
Isabelle Lagarde
1955
Mimi Howell
1930
Fidele Tridon
1925
Irene Mason
1922
Young Woman
1922
Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
1936
Elena
1927
Violet Lynwood
1923
Marjorie Ware
1929
Molly Gibson
1927
Amy Cortissos
1927
Jennie Clayton
1926
Mary
1926
Marthe
1931
Anna
1928
Elsie Worden
1922
Narcissa Escobar
1923
Lucy
1924
Sally Montgomery
1927
Dolly
1927
Frisco Kitty
1931
Norah Collison
1921
1921
Vivian Hope-Clarke
1923
Helen Seymour
1922
Bit Part
1921
Bit Part
1922