Mary Astor

Known for ActingBorn 1906-05-03Died 1987-09-25Quincy, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

White Shoulders

The Sea Tiger

Success

The Young Painter

Lady from Nowhere

Straight from the Heart

Rose of the Golden West

High Steppers

Playing with Souls

The Pace That Thrills

Scarlet Saint

The Price of a Party

Hollywood

The Angelus

Brother of the Bear

Wings of the Border

Hollywood

The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Woman from Hell

Sailors' Wives

Dressed to Kill

No Place to Go

The Sunset Derby

Forever After

To the Ladies

Inez from Hollywood

Puritan Passions

Second Fiddle

Woman-Proof

Hope

The Maltese Falcon

Claudia and David

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Little Women

The Prisoner of Zenda

Rawhide

Midnight

Paradise for Three

That's Entertainment, Part II

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

Dinky

Yesterday and Today

Meet Me in St. Louis

Dodsworth

The Beggar Maid

Okay for Sound

The Palm Beach Story