1906-05-03 Quincy, Illinois, USA
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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The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird | Self (archive footage) | 2006-10-03 |
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Bogart: The Untold Story | Self (archive footage) | 1997-01-05 |
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That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 |
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli | Self (archive footage) | 1973-01-01 |
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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Jewel Mayhew | 1964-12-16 |
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Youngblood Hawke | Irene Perry | 1964-11-04 |
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Return to Peyton Place | Mrs. Roberta Carter | 1961-05-05 |
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Mrs. Leslie | 1960-03-25 |
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Journey to the Day | Helen May Whitfield | 1960-04-22 |
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A Stranger in My Arms | Virgilnie Beasley | 1959-03-03 |
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This Happy Feeling | Mrs. Tremaine | 1958-06-18 |
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The Devil's Hairpin | Mrs. Jargin | 1957-10-04 |
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The Ninth Day | 1957-01-10 | |
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The Power and the Prize | Mrs. George Salt | 1956-09-26 |
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A Kiss Before Dying | Mrs. Corliss | 1956-04-20 |
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The Thief | Isabelle Lagarde | 1955-01-04 |
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Yesterday and Today | (archive footage) | 1953-12-02 |
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Little Women | Marmee | 1949-03-10 |
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Any Number Can Play | Ada | 1949-07-15 |
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Act of Violence | Pat | 1949-01-22 |
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Cass Timberlane | Queenie Havock | 1947-11-06 |
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Desert Fury | Fritzi Haller | 1947-08-15 |
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Cynthia | Louise Bishop | 1947-08-29 |
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Fiesta | Señora Morales | 1947-06-12 |
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Okay for Sound | Adriana (archive footage) | 1946-09-07 |
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Claudia and David | Elizabeth Van Doren | 1946-02-25 |
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Blonde Fever | Delilah Donay | 1944-12-05 |
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Meet Me in St. Louis | Anna Smith | 1944-11-28 |
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Young Ideas | Josephine Evans | 1943-08-02 |
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Thousands Cheer | Hyllary Jones | 1943-09-13 |
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Across the Pacific | Alberta Marlow | 1942-09-04 |
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The Palm Beach Story | The Princess Centimillia | 1942-08-28 |
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The Great Lie | Sandra Kovak | 1941-04-05 |
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The Maltese Falcon | Brigid O'Shaughnessy | 1941-10-18 |
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Breakdowns of 1941 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1941-11-14 |
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Turnabout | Marion Manning | 1940-05-17 |
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Brigham Young | Mary Ann Young | 1940-09-27 |
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Midnight | Helene Flammarion | 1939-03-24 |
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Listen, Darling | Dottie Wingate | 1938-10-21 |
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There's Always a Woman | Lola Fraser | 1938-04-20 |
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Woman Against Woman | Cynthia Holland | 1938-06-24 |
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Paradise for Three | Mrs. Irene Mallebre | 1938-06-04 |
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No Time to Marry | Kay McGowan | 1938-02-05 |
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The Hurricane | Mme. DeLaage | 1937-11-09 |
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The Prisoner of Zenda | Antoinette de Mauban | 1937-09-03 |
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Lady from Nowhere | Polly Dunlap | 1936-12-23 |
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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan | Lillian Cooper | 1936-01-11 |
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And So They Were Married | Edith Farnham | 1936-05-10 |
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Dodsworth | Edith Cortright | 1936-09-23 |
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Trapped by Television | Barbara 'Bobby' Blake | 1936-06-15 |
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Man of Iron | Vida | 1935-12-21 |
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Page Miss Glory | Gladys | 1935-09-07 |
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Dinky | Martha Daniels | 1935-05-11 |
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Red Hot Tires | Patricia Sanford | 1935-02-02 |
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Straight from the Heart | Marian Henshaw | 1935-03-22 |
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The Hollywood Gad-About | Self | 1934-10-04 |
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Upperworld | Hettie Stream | 1934-04-28 |
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Return of the Terror | Olga Morgan | 1934-07-07 |
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Easy to Love | Charlotte | 1934-01-13 |
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I Am a Thief | Odette Mauclair | 1934-11-24 |
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The Man with Two Faces | Jessica Wells | 1934-08-04 |
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The Case of the Howling Dog | Bessie Foley | 1934-09-22 |
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The World Changes | Virginia Claffin Nordholm | 1933-11-25 |
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Jennie Gerhardt | Letty Pace | 1933-06-08 |
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The Kennel Murder Case | Hilda Lake | 1933-10-28 |
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The Little Giant | Ruth Wayburn | 1933-05-20 |
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Convention City | Arlene Dale | 1933-12-14 |
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Red Dust | Barbara "Babs" Willis | 1932-10-22 |
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The Lost Squadron | Follette Marsh | 1932-03-12 |
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Those We Love | May Ballard | 1932-09-11 |
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A Successful Calamity | Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton | 1932-09-17 |
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The Sin Ship | Frisco Kitty | 1931-04-18 |
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Men of Chance | Marthe | 1931-12-26 |
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Behind Office Doors | Mary Linden | 1931-03-15 |
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Smart Woman | Nancy Gibson | 1931-09-12 |
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The Royal Bed | Princess Anne | 1931-01-15 |
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White Shoulders | Norma Selbee | 1931-05-17 |
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Other Men's Women | Lily Kulper | 1931-01-17 |
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The Runaway Bride | Mary Gray | 1930-05-04 |
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The Lash | Dona Rosita Garcia | 1930-12-14 |
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Holiday | Julia Seton | 1930-07-03 |
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Ladies Love Brutes | Mimi Howell | 1930-05-14 |
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The Show of Shows | Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited) | 1929-11-21 |
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The Woman from Hell | Dee Renaud | 1929-04-20 |
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New Year's Eve | Marjorie Ware | 1929-02-24 |
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Romance of the Underworld | Judith Andrews | 1928-11-10 |
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3-Ring Marriage | Anna | 1928-06-10 |
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Dry Martini | Elizabeth Quimby | 1928-10-06 |
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Sailors' Wives | Carol Trent | 1928-01-22 |
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Dressed to Kill | Jeanne | 1928-03-17 |
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Heart to Heart | Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie | 1928-07-22 |
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Rose of the Golden West | Elena | 1927-09-25 |
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The Sunset Derby | Molly Gibson | 1927-06-05 |
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No Place to Go | Sally Montgomery | 1927-10-30 |
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The Rough Riders | Dolly | 1927-09-30 |
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Two Arabian Knights | Mirza | 1927-09-23 |
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The Sea Tiger | Amy Cortissos | 1927-02-27 |
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Forever After | Jennie Clayton | 1926-10-24 |
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High Steppers | Audrey Nye | 1926-03-14 |
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The Wise Guy | Mary | 1926-05-23 |
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Don Juan | Adriana della Varnese | 1926-08-06 |
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Scarlet Saint | Fidele Tridon | 1925-11-08 |
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The Pace That Thrills | Doris | 1925-10-18 |
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Playing with Souls | Margo | 1925-04-30 |
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Don Q Son of Zorro | Dolores de Muro | 1925-06-15 |
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Enticement | Leonore Bewlay | 1925-03-01 |
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Oh, Doctor! | Dolores Hicks | 1925-02-23 |
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Beau Brummel | Lady Margery Alvanley | 1924-03-30 |
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The Fighting Coward | Lucy | 1924-03-14 |
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The Fighting American | Mary Brainard | 1924-05-26 |
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Unguarded Women | Helen Castle | 1924-06-22 |
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To the Ladies | Undetermined Secondary Role | 1924-10-06 |
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The Price of a Party | Alice Barrows | 1924-11-23 |
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Inez from Hollywood | Fay Bartholdi | 1924-12-14 |
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The Bright Shawl | Narcissa Escobar | 1923-04-22 |
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Puritan Passions | Rachel | 1923-09-09 |
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The Marriage Maker | Vivian Hope-Clarke | 1923-09-30 |
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Success | Rose Randolph | 1923-02-25 |
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Hollywood | Mary Astor | 1923-08-19 |
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Woman-Proof | Violet Lynwood | 1923-10-28 |
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Second Fiddle | Polly Crawford | 1923-01-14 |
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The Rapids | Elsie Worden | 1922-10-30 |
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The Young Painter | Helen Seymour | 1922-02-19 |
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Hope | Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter | 1922-07-16 |
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The Man Who Played God | Young Woman | 1922-10-01 |
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The Angelus | Bit Part | 1922-01-01 |
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John Smith | Irene Mason | 1922-06-01 |
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The Beggar Maid | Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid | 1921-09-25 |
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Bullets or Ballots | Bit Part | 1921-01-01 |
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My Lady o' the Pines | Norah Collison | 1921-09-11 |
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Sentimental Tommy | 1921-03-26 | |
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Wings of the Border | 1921-10-09 | |
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Brother of the Bear | Marcia Harthorn | 1921-02-18 |
