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Mary Astor

Known for: Acting

Biography: 1906-05-03

Deathday: 1987-09-25 (81 years old)

Biography

Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 - September 25, 1987) was an American actress. Most ed 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 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 ing 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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Filmography

all 158

Movies 138

TV Shows 20

self 11

Self (archive footage)

Mary Astor

Biography

Filmography

all 158

Movies 138

TV Shows 20

self 11

The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird (2006)

Bogart: The Untold Story (1997)

100 Years at the Movies (1994)

Home Stories (1990)

Hollywood (1980)

That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli (1973)

Hollywood My Home Town (1965)

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

Youngblood Hawke (1964)

Burke's Law (1963)

Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963)

Ben Casey (1961)

Dr. Kildare (1961)

The Defenders (1961)

Return to Peyton Place (1961)

Hollywood: The Golden Years (1961)

Checkmate (1960)

Thriller (1960)

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1960)

A Stranger in My Arms (1959)

Rawhide (1959)

This Happy Feeling (1958)

The Devil's Hairpin (1957)

The Ninth Day (1957)

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)

The Power and the Prize (1956)

A Kiss Before Dying (1956)

Playwrights '56 (1955)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

The Thief (1955)

Producers' Showcase (1954)

Climax! (1954)

The Best of Broadway (1954)

Yesterday and Today (1953)

The United States Steel Hour (1953)

General Electric Theater (1953)

Lux Video Theatre (1950)

Robert Montgomery Presents (1950)

Any Number Can Play (1949)

Little Women (1949)

Act of Violence (1949)

Studio One (1948)

The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)

Cass Timberlane (1947)

Cynthia (1947)

Desert Fury (1947)

Fiesta (1947)

Okay for Sound (1946)

Claudia and David (1946)

Blonde Fever (1944)

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

Thousands Cheer (1943)

Young Ideas (1943)

Across the Pacific (1942)

The Palm Beach Story (1942)

Breakdowns of 1941 (1941)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

The Great Lie (1941)

Brigham Young (1940)

Turnabout (1940)

Midnight (1939)

Listen, Darling (1938)

Woman Against Woman (1938)

Paradise for Three (1938)

There's Always a Woman (1938)

No Time to Marry (1938)

The Hurricane (1937)

The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)

Lady from Nowhere (1936)

Dodsworth (1936)

Trapped by Television (1936)

And So They Were Married (1936)