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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Youngblood Hawke | Irene Perry | 1964-11-04 |
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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Jewel Mayhew | 1964-12-15 |
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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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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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A Kiss Before Dying | Mrs. Corliss | 1956-04-20 |
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The Power and the Prize | Mrs. George Salt | 1956-09-26 |
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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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Any Number Can Play | Ada | 1949-07-15 |
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Little Women | Marmee | 1949-03-10 |
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Act of Violence | Pat | 1949-01-22 |
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Cynthia | Louise Bishop | 1947-08-29 |
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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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Fiesta | Señora Morales | 1947-06-12 |
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Claudia and David | Elizabeth Van Doren | 1946-02-25 |
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Okay for Sound | Adriana (archive footage) | 1946-09-07 |
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Meet Me in St. Louis | Anna Smith | 1944-11-28 |
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Blonde Fever | Delilah Donay | 1944-12-05 |
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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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The Palm Beach Story | The Princess Centimillia | 1942-08-28 |
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Across the Pacific | Alberta Marlow | 1942-09-04 |
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The Great Lie | Sandra Kovak | 1941-04-05 |
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Breakdowns of 1941 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1941-11-14 |
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The Maltese Falcon | Brigid O'Shaughnessy | 1941-10-18 |
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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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No Time to Marry | Kay McGowan | 1938-02-05 |
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Paradise for Three | Mrs. Irene Mallebre | 1938-06-04 |
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Woman Against Woman | Cynthia Holland | 1938-06-24 |
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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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The Prisoner of Zenda | Antoinette de Mauban | 1937-09-03 |
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The Hurricane | Mme. DeLaage | 1937-11-09 |
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Dodsworth | Edith Cortright | 1936-09-23 |
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And So They Were Married | Edith Farnham | 1936-05-10 |
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Lady from Nowhere | Polly Dunlap | 1936-12-23 |
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Trapped by Television | Barbara 'Bobby' Blake | 1936-06-15 |
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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan | Lillian Cooper | 1936-01-11 |
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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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Man of Iron | Vida | 1935-12-21 |
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Page Miss Glory | Gladys | 1935-09-07 |
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Straight from the Heart | Marian Henshaw | 1935-03-22 |
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I Am a Thief | Odette Mauclair | 1934-11-24 |
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Upperworld | Hettie Stream | 1934-04-28 |
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Easy to Love | Charlotte | 1934-01-13 |
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Return of the Terror | Olga Morgan | 1934-07-07 |
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The Man with Two Faces | Jessica Wells | 1934-08-04 |
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The Hollywood Gad-About | Self | 1934-10-04 |
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The Case of the Howling Dog | Bessie Foley | 1934-09-22 |
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The Kennel Murder Case | Hilda Lake | 1933-10-28 |
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Convention City | Arlene Dale | 1933-12-14 |
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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 Little Giant | Ruth Wayburn | 1933-05-20 |
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A Successful Calamity | Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton | 1932-09-17 |
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Red Dust | Barbara "Babs" Willis | 1932-10-22 |
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Those We Love | May Ballard | 1932-09-11 |
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The Lost Squadron | Follette Marsh | 1932-03-12 |
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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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Other Men's Women | Lily Kulper | 1931-01-17 |
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White Shoulders | Norma Selbee | 1931-05-17 |
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The Royal Bed | Princess Anne | 1931-01-15 |
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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 Runaway Bride | Mary Gray | 1930-05-04 |
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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 Lash | Dona Rosita Garcia | 1930-12-14 |
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The Woman from Hell | Dee Renaud | 1929-04-20 |
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The Show of Shows | Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited) | 1929-11-21 |
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New Year's Eve | Marjorie Ware | 1929-02-24 |
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Heart to Heart | Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie | 1928-07-22 |
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Dressed to Kill | Jeanne | 1928-03-17 |
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Sailors' Wives | Carol Trent | 1928-01-22 |
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Romance of the Underworld | Judith Andrews | 1928-11-10 |
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Dry Martini | Elizabeth Quimby | 1928-10-06 |
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3-Ring Marriage | Anna | 1928-06-10 |
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The Rough Riders | Dolly | 1927-09-30 |
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The Sea Tiger | Amy Cortissos | 1927-02-27 |
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Two Arabian Knights | Mirza | 1927-09-23 |
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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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Rose of the Golden West | Elena | 1927-09-25 |
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The Wise Guy | Mary | 1926-05-23 |
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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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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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Oh, Doctor! | Dolores Hicks | 1925-02-23 |
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Enticement | Leonore Bewlay | 1925-03-01 |
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Don Q Son of Zorro | Dolores de Muro | 1925-06-15 |
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Beau Brummel | Lady Margery Alvanley | 1924-03-30 |
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Inez from Hollywood | Fay Bartholdi | 1924-12-14 |
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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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The Fighting American | Mary Brainard | 1924-05-26 |
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The Fighting Coward | Lucy | 1924-03-14 |
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Unguarded Women | Helen Castle | 1924-06-22 |
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Hollywood | Mary Astor | 1923-08-19 |
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The Marriage Maker | Vivian Hope-Clarke | 1923-09-30 |
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Woman-Proof | Violet Lynwood | 1923-10-28 |
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The Bright Shawl | Narcissa Escobar | 1923-04-22 |
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Success | Rose Randolph | 1923-02-25 |
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Second Fiddle | Polly Crawford | 1923-01-14 |
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Puritan Passions | Rachel | 1923-09-09 |
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The Rapids | Elsie Worden | 1922-10-30 |
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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 Man Who Played God | Young Woman | 1922-10-01 |
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Hope | Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter | 1922-07-16 |
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The Young Painter | Helen Seymour | 1922-02-19 |
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Brother of the Bear | Marcia Harthorn | 1921-02-18 |
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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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Wings of the Border | 1921-10-09 | |
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Sentimental Tommy | 1921-03-26 |
