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.
Movie | The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird | Self (archive footage) | 2006-10-03 |
Movie | Bogart: The Untold Story | Self (archive footage) | 1997-01-05 |
Series | Hollywood | Self | 1980-01-08 |
Movie | That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 |
Movie | The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli | Self (archive footage) | 1973-01-01 |
Movie | Hollywood My Home Town | Self (archive footage) | 1965-12-31 |
Movie | Youngblood Hawke | Irene Perry | 1964-11-04 |
Movie | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Jewel Mayhew | 1964-12-15 |
Movie | Hollywood Without Make-Up | Self (archive footage) | 1963-07-01 |
Series | Burke's Law | Florence Roberts | 1963-09-20 |
Series | The Defenders | Flora Goode | 1961-09-16 |
Movie | Return to Peyton Place | Mrs. Roberta Carter | 1961-05-05 |
Series | Dr. Kildare | Aunt Frances | 1961-09-27 |
Series | Ben Casey | Unknown | 1961-10-02 |
Movie | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Mrs. Leslie | 1960-03-25 |
Series | Thriller | Rose French | 1960-09-13 |
Series | Checkmate | Esther Brack | 1960-09-17 |
Series | Rawhide | Emma Cardwell | 1959-01-09 |
Movie | A Stranger in My Arms | Virgilnie Beasley | 1959-03-03 |
Movie | This Happy Feeling | Mrs. Tremaine | 1958-06-18 |
Movie | The Devil's Hairpin | Mrs. Jargin | 1957-10-04 |
Movie | A Kiss Before Dying | Mrs. Corliss | 1956-04-20 |
Movie | The Power and the Prize | Mrs. George Salt | 1956-09-26 |
Series | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Sarah Simmons | 1956-10-05 |
Movie | The Thief | Isabelle Lagarde | 1955-01-04 |
Series | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Grace Dolan | 1955-10-02 |
Series | Playwrights '56 | Unknown | 1955-10-04 |
Series | Climax! | Clarissa Bowman | 1954-10-07 |
Series | Producers' Showcase | Nancy Blake | 1954-10-18 |
Series | General Electric Theater | Bea Hicks | 1953-02-01 |
Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |
Movie | Yesterday and Today | (archive footage) | 1953-12-02 |
Series | The United States Steel Hour | Isabelle Lagarde | 1953-10-27 |
Series | Robert Montgomery Presents | Norma Desmond | 1950-01-30 |
Series | Lux Video Theatre | Mildred Le Brun | 1950-10-02 |
Movie | Act of Violence | Pat | 1949-02-01 |
Movie | Any Number Can Play | Ada | 1949-07-15 |
Movie | Little Women | Marmee | 1949-03-10 |
Series | The Ed Sullivan Show | Self (archive footage) | 1948-06-20 |
Series | The Philco Television Playhouse | Unknown | 1948-10-03 |
Series | Studio One | Harriet Brand | 1948-11-07 |
Movie | Desert Fury | Fritzi Haller | 1947-08-15 |
Movie | Fiesta | SeƱora Morales | 1947-06-12 |
Movie | Cynthia | Louise Bishop | 1947-08-29 |
Movie | Cass Timberlane | Queenie Havock | 1947-11-06 |
Movie | Claudia and David | Elizabeth Van Doren | 1946-02-25 |
Movie | Okay for Sound | Adriana (archive footage) | 1946-09-07 |
Movie | Meet Me in St. Louis | Mrs. Anna Smith | 1944-11-28 |
Movie | Blonde Fever | Delilah Donay | 1944-12-05 |
Movie | Young Ideas | Josephine Evans | 1943-08-02 |
Movie | Thousands Cheer | Hyllary Jones | 1943-09-13 |
Movie | The Palm Beach Story | The Princess Centimillia | 1942-08-28 |
Movie | Across the Pacific | Alberta Marlow | 1942-09-04 |
Movie | The Maltese Falcon | Brigid O'Shaughnessy | 1941-10-18 |
Movie | The Great Lie | Sandra Kovak | 1941-04-05 |
Movie | Breakdowns of 1941 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1941-11-14 |
Movie | Turnabout | Marion Manning | 1940-05-17 |
Movie | Brigham Young | Mary Ann Young | 1940-09-27 |
Movie | Midnight | Helene Flammarion | 1939-03-24 |
Movie | No Time To Marry | Kay McGowan | 1938-02-05 |
Movie | There's Always a Woman | Lola Fraser | 1938-04-20 |
Movie | Listen, Darling | Dottie Wingate | 1938-10-21 |
Movie | Paradise for Three | Mrs. Irene Mallebre | 1938-06-04 |
Movie | Woman Against Woman | Cynthia Holland | 1938-06-24 |
Movie | The Prisoner of Zenda | Antoinette de Mauban | 1937-09-03 |
Movie | The Hurricane | Mme. DeLaage | 1937-11-09 |
Movie | And So They Were Married | Edith Farnham | 1936-05-10 |
Movie | Trapped by Television | Barbara 'Bobby' Blake | 1936-06-15 |
Movie | The Murder of Dr. Harrigan | Lillian Cooper | 1936-01-11 |
Movie | Dodsworth | Edith Cortright | 1936-09-23 |
Movie | Lady from Nowhere | Polly Dunlap | 1936-12-23 |
Movie | Straight from the Heart | Marian Henshaw | 1935-03-22 |
Movie | Red Hot Tires | Patricia Sanford | 1935-02-02 |
Movie | Dinky | Martha Daniels | 1935-05-11 |
Movie | Page Miss Glory | Gladys | 1935-09-07 |
Movie | Man of Iron | Vida | 1935-12-21 |
Movie | Upperworld | Hettie Stream | 1934-04-19 |
Movie | Easy to Love | Charlotte | 1934-01-13 |
Movie | Return of the Terror | Olga Morgan | 1934-07-07 |
Movie | The Hollywood Gad-About | Self | 1934-10-04 |
Movie | The Man with Two Faces | Jessica Wells | 1934-08-04 |
Movie | I Am a Thief | Odette Mauclair | 1934-11-24 |
Movie | The Case of the Howling Dog | Bessie Foley | 1934-09-22 |
Movie | Jennie Gerhardt | Letty Pace | 1933-06-08 |
Movie | The Kennel Murder Case | Hilda Lake | 1933-10-28 |
Movie | The Little Giant | Ruth Wayburn | 1933-05-20 |
Movie | The World Changes | Virginia Claffin Nordholm | 1933-11-25 |
Movie | Convention City | Arlene Dale | 1933-12-14 |
Movie | The Lost Squadron | Follette Marsh | 1932-03-12 |
Movie | Those We Love | May Ballard | 1932-09-11 |
Movie | A Successful Calamity | Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton | 1932-09-17 |
Movie | Red Dust | Barbara "Babs" Willis | 1932-10-22 |
Movie | Other Men's Women | Lily Kulper | 1931-01-17 |
Movie | The Sin Ship | Frisco Kitty | 1931-04-18 |
Movie | The Royal Bed | Princess Anne | 1931-01-15 |
Movie | Behind Office Doors | Mary Linden | 1931-03-15 |
Movie | Men of Chance | Marthe | 1931-12-26 |
Movie | Smart Woman | Nancy Gibson | 1931-09-12 |
Movie | White Shoulders | Norma Selbee | 1931-05-17 |
Movie | The Runaway Bride | Mary Gray | 1930-05-04 |
Movie | Ladies Love Brutes | Mimi Howell | 1930-05-14 |
Movie | The Lash | Dona Rosita Garcia | 1930-12-14 |
Movie | Holiday | Julia Seton | 1930-07-03 |
Movie | New Year's Eve | Marjorie Ware | 1929-02-24 |
Movie | The Woman from Hell | Dee Renaud | 1929-04-20 |
Movie | Show of Shows | Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited) | 1929-11-21 |
Movie | Sailors' Wives | Carol Trent | 1928-01-22 |
Movie | Dressed to Kill | Jeanne | 1928-03-17 |
Movie | 3-Ring Marriage | Anna | 1928-06-10 |
Movie | Romance of the Underworld | Judith Andrews | 1928-11-10 |
Movie | Dry Martini | Elizabeth Quimby | 1928-10-06 |
Movie | Heart to Heart | Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie | 1928-07-22 |
Movie | The Sunset Derby | Molly Gibson | 1927-06-05 |
Movie | Two Arabian Knights | Mirza | 1927-09-23 |
Movie | The Sea Tiger | Amy Cortissos | 1927-02-27 |
Movie | Rose of the Golden West | Elena | 1927-09-25 |
Movie | No Place to Go | Sally Montgomery | 1927-10-30 |
Movie | The Rough Riders | Dolly | 1927-09-30 |
Movie | High Steppers | Audrey Nye | 1926-03-14 |
Movie | The Wise Guy | Mary | 1926-05-23 |
Movie | Don Juan | Adriana della Varnese | 1926-08-06 |
Movie | Forever After | Jennie Clayton | 1926-10-24 |
Movie | Enticement | Leonore Bewlay | 1925-03-01 |
Movie | Oh, Doctor! | Dolores Hicks | 1925-02-23 |
Movie | Playing with Souls | Margo | 1925-04-30 |
Movie | Scarlet Saint | Fidele Tridon | 1925-11-08 |
Movie | Don Q Son of Zorro | Dolores de Muro | 1925-06-15 |
Movie | The Pace That Thrills | Doris | 1925-10-18 |
Movie | The Fighting American | Mary Brainard | 1924-05-26 |
Movie | Unguarded Women | Helen Castle | 1924-06-22 |
Movie | Beau Brummel | Lady Margery Alvanley | 1924-03-30 |
Movie | The Fighting Coward | Lucy | 1924-03-14 |
Movie | To the Ladies | Undetermined Secondary Role | 1924-10-06 |
Movie | Inez from Hollywood | Fay Bartholdi | 1924-12-14 |
Movie | The Price of a Party | Alice Barrows | 1924-11-23 |
Movie | Success | Rose Randolph | 1923-02-25 |
Movie | Second Fiddle | Polly Crawford | 1923-01-14 |
Movie | The Bright Shawl | Narcissa Escobar | 1923-04-22 |
Movie | Hollywood | Mary Astor | 1923-08-19 |
Movie | Woman-Proof | Violet Lynwood | 1923-10-28 |
Movie | The Marriage Maker | Vivian Hope-Clarke | 1923-09-30 |
Movie | Puritan Passions | Rachel | 1923-09-09 |
Movie | The Young Painter | Helen Seymour | 1922-02-19 |
Movie | The Angelus | Bit Part | 1922-01-01 |
Movie | John Smith | Irene Mason | 1922-06-01 |
Movie | The Man Who Played God | Young Woman | 1922-10-01 |
Movie | Hope | Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter | 1922-07-16 |
Movie | The Rapids | Elsie Worden | 1922-10-30 |
Movie | Brother of the Bear | Marcia Harthorn | 1921-02-18 |
Movie | Bullets or Ballots | Bit Part | 1921-01-01 |
Movie | Sentimental Tommy | Unknown | 1921-03-26 |
Movie | My Lady o' the Pines | Norah Collison | 1921-09-11 |
Movie | The Beggar Maid | Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid | 1921-09-25 |
Movie | Wings of the Border | Unknown | 1921-10-09 |
Movie | The Scarecrow | (uncredited & cut) | 1920-11-07 |