Mary Astor
Actor
Born May 3, 1906 in 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.
Filmography
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Self (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story
Self (archive footage)
100 Years at the Movies
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood
Self
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Self (archive footage)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Jewel Mayhew
Youngblood Hawke
Irene Perry
Burke's Law
Florence Roberts
Ben Casey
Dr. Kildare
Martha Lantzinge
The Defenders
Flora Goode
Return to Peyton Place
Roberta Carter
Checkmate
Esther Brack
Thriller
Rose French
Journey to the Day
Helen May Whitfield
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Mrs. Leslie
A Stranger in My Arms
Virgilnie Beasley
Rawhide
Emma Cardwell
This Happy Feeling
Mrs. Tremaine
The Devil's Hairpin
Mrs. Jargin
The Ninth Day
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Sarah Simmons
The Power and the Prize
Mrs. George Salt
A Kiss Before Dying
Mrs. Corliss
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Mrs. Fenimore
The Thief
Isabelle Lagarde
Climax!
Mrs. Harriss
Yesterday and Today
(archive footage)
The United States Steel Hour
Isabelle Lagarde
General Electric Theater
Bea Hicks
Robert Montgomery Presents
Norma Desmond
Any Number Can Play
Ada
Little Women
Marmee
Act of Violence
Pat
Studio One
Ruth Sparling
The Philco Television Playhouse
Cass Timberlane
Queenie Havock
Cynthia
Louise Bishop
Desert Fury
Fritzi Haller
Fiesta
Señora Morales
Okay for Sound
Adriana (archive footage)
Claudia and David
Elizabeth Van Doren
Blonde Fever
Delilah Donay
Meet Me in St. Louis
Anna Smith
Thousands Cheer
Hyllary Jones
Young Ideas
Josephine Evans
Across the Pacific
Alberta Marlow
The Palm Beach Story
The Princess Centimillia
Breakdowns of 1941
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Maltese Falcon
Brigid O'Shaughnessy
The Great Lie
Sandra Kovak
Brigham Young
Mary Ann Young
Turnabout
Marion Manning
Midnight
Helene Flammarion
Listen, Darling
Dottie Wingate
Woman Against Woman
Cynthia Holland
Paradise for Three
Mrs. Irene Mallebre
There's Always a Woman
Lola Fraser
No Time to Marry
Kay McGowan
The Hurricane
Mme. DeLaage
The Prisoner of Zenda
Antoinette de Mauban
Lady from Nowhere
Polly Dunlap
Dodsworth
Edith Cortright
Trapped by Television
Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
And So They Were Married
Edith Farnham
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Lillian Cooper
Man of Iron
Vida
Page Miss Glory
Gladys
Dinky
Martha Daniels
Straight from the Heart
Marian Henshaw
Red Hot Tires
Patricia Sanford
I Am a Thief
Odette Mauclair
The Hollywood Gad-About
Self
The Case of the Howling Dog
Bessie Foley
The Man with Two Faces
Jessica Wells
Return of the Terror
Olga Morgan
Upperworld
Hettie Stream
Easy to Love
Charlotte
Convention City
Arlene Dale
The World Changes
Virginia Claffin Nordholm
The Kennel Murder Case
Hilda Lake
Jennie Gerhardt
Letty Pace
The Little Giant
Ruth Wayburn
Red Dust
Barbara "Babs" Willis
A Successful Calamity
Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
Those We Love
May Ballard
The Lost Squadron
Follette Marsh
Men of Chance
Marthe
Smart Woman
Nancy Gibson
White Shoulders
Norma Selbee
The Sin Ship
Frisco Kitty
Behind Office Doors
Mary Linden
Other Men's Women
Lily Kulper
The Royal Bed
Princess Anne
The Lash
Dona Rosita Garcia
Holiday
Julia Seton
Ladies Love Brutes
Mimi Howell
The Runaway Bride
Mary Gray
The Show of Shows
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
The Woman from Hell
Dee Renaud
New Year's Eve
Marjorie Ware
Romance of the Underworld
Judith Andrews
Dry Martini
Elizabeth Quimby
Heart to Heart
Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
3-Ring Marriage
Anna
Dressed to Kill
Jeanne
Sailors' Wives
Carol Trent
No Place to Go
Sally Montgomery
The Rough Riders
Dolly
Rose of the Golden West
Elena
Two Arabian Knights
Mirza
The Sunset Derby
Molly Gibson
The Sea Tiger
Amy Cortissos
Forever After
Jennie Clayton
Don Juan
Adriana della Varnese
The Wise Guy
Mary
High Steppers
Audrey Nye
Scarlet Saint
Fidele Tridon
The Pace That Thrills
Doris
Don Q Son of Zorro
Dolores de Muro
Playing with Souls
Margo
Enticement
Leonore Bewlay
Oh, Doctor!
Dolores Hicks
Inez from Hollywood
Fay Bartholdi
The Price of a Party
Alice Barrows
To the Ladies
Undetermined Secondary Role
Unguarded Women
Helen Castle
The Fighting American
Mary Brainard
Beau Brummel
Lady Margery Alvanley
The Fighting Coward
Lucy
Woman-Proof
Violet Lynwood
The Marriage Maker
Vivian Hope-Clarke
Puritan Passions
Rachel
Hollywood
Mary Astor
The Bright Shawl
Narcissa Escobar
Success
Rose Randolph
Second Fiddle
Polly Crawford
The Rapids
Elsie Worden
The Man Who Played God
Young Woman
Hope
Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
John Smith
Irene Mason
The Young Painter
Helen Seymour
Wings of the Border
The Beggar Maid
Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
Sentimental Tommy