Mary Astor
Birthday: 1906-05-03 | Place of Birth: Quincy, Illinois, USAFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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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Acting
Role
as Lillian Cooper
as Self (archive footage)
as Jewel Mayhew
as Mrs. Roberta Carter
as Mrs. Jargin
as Mrs. Corliss
as Ada
as Marmee
as Pat
as Fritzi Haller
as Queenie Havock
as Señora Morales
as Anna Smith
as Hyllary Jones
as Alberta Marlow
as The Princess Centimillia
as Brigid O'Shaughnessy
as Sandra Kovak
as Mary Ann Young
as Helene Flammarion
as Cynthia Holland
as Mrs. Irene Mallebre
as Antoinette de Mauban
as Mme. DeLaage
as Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
as Edith Cortright
as Edith Farnham
as Gladys
