Mary Astor
Birthday
1906/05/03
Day of death
1987/09/25 (81 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Quincy, Illinois, USA
Also know as
Μαίρη Άστορ, Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke
Biography
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-husb...Read more
Acting
(1944) Meet Me in St. Louis
as Anna Smith
(1941) The Maltese Falcon
as Brigid O'Shaughnessy
(1964) Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
as Jewel Mayhew
(1936) Dodsworth
as Edith Cortright
(1939) Midnight
as Helene Flammarion
(1942) The Palm Beach Story
as The Princess Centimillia
(1931) Other Men's Women
as Lily Kulper
(1947) Desert Fury
as Fritzi Haller
(1949) Act of Violence
as Pat
(1923) Hollywood
as Mary Astor
(1931) White Shoulders
as Norma Selbee
(1933) The Little Giant
as Ruth Wayburn
(1949) Little Women
as Marmee
(1943) Thousands Cheer
as Hyllary Jones
(1937) The Prisoner of Zenda
as Antoinette de Mauban
(1941) The Great Lie
as Sandra Kovak
(1932) Red Dust
as Barbara "Babs" Willis
(1947) Fiesta
as Señora Morales
(1921) Brother of the Bear
as Marcia Harthorn
(1921) My Lady o' the Pines
as Norah Collison
(1922) The Young Painter
as Helen Seymour
(1921) Wings of the Border
as ---
(1921) Bullets or Ballots
as Bit Part
(1922) Hope
as Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
(1922) John Smith
as Irene Mason
(1922) The Man Who Played God
as Young Woman
(1923) Puritan Passions
as Rachel
(1922) The Angelus
as Bit Part
(1924) To the Ladies
as Undetermined Secondary Role
(1924) The Price of a Party
as Alice Barrows
(1925) Playing with Souls
as Margo
(1925) The Pace That Thrills
as Doris
(1927) No Place to Go
as Sally Montgomery
(1926) The Wise Guy
as Mary
(1927) The Sunset Derby
as Molly Gibson
(1928) Sailors' Wives
as Carol Trent
(1929) New Year's Eve
as Marjorie Ware
(1934) Return of the Terror
as Olga Morgan
(1953) Yesterday and Today
as (archive footage)
(1935) Straight from the Heart
as Marian Henshaw
(1960) The Snows of Kilimanjaro
as Mrs. Leslie
(2006) The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
as Self (archive footage)
(1942) Across the Pacific
as Alberta Marlow
(1956) A Kiss Before Dying
as Mrs. Corliss
(1933) The Kennel Murder Case
as Hilda Lake
(1938) Listen, Darling
as Dottie Wingate
(1934) The Man with Two Faces
as Jessica Wells
(1940) Brigham Young
as Mary Ann Young
(1937) The Hurricane
as Mme. DeLaage
(1936) The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
as Lillian Cooper
(1926) Don Juan
as Adriana della Varnese
(1932) The Lost Squadron
as Follette Marsh
(1949) Any Number Can Play
as Ada
(1930) Holiday
as Julia Seton
(1964) Youngblood Hawke
as Irene Perry
(1947) Cass Timberlane
as Queenie Havock
(1961) Return to Peyton Place
as Mrs. Roberta Carter
(1932) Those We Love
as May Ballard
(1940) Turnabout
as Marion Manning
(1925) Don Q Son of Zorro
as Dolores de Muro
(1936) Trapped by Television
as Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
(1944) Blonde Fever
as Delilah Donay
(1934) The Case of the Howling Dog
as Bessie Foley
(1924) Beau Brummel
as Lady Margery Alvanley
(1958) This Happy Feeling
as Mrs. Tremaine
(1932) A Successful Calamity
as Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
(1931) Behind Office Doors
as Mary Linden
(1931) The Royal Bed
as Princess Anne
(1928) Romance of the Underworld
as Judith Andrews
(1934) I Am a Thief
as Odette Mauclair
(1938) There's Always a Woman
as Lola Fraser
(1931) Smart Woman
as Nancy Gibson
(1943) Young Ideas
as Josephine Evans
(1947) Cynthia
as Louise Bishop
(1936) And So They Were Married
as Edith Farnham
(1934) Easy to Love
as Charlotte
(1956) The Power and the Prize
as Mrs. George Salt
(1930) Ladies Love Brutes
as Mimi Howell
(1935) Page Miss Glory
as Gladys
(1931) Men of Chance
as Marthe
(1933) Jennie Gerhardt
as Letty Pace
(1934) Upperworld
as Hettie Stream
(1933) The World Changes
as Virginia Claffin Nordholm
(1925) Oh, Doctor!
as Dolores Hicks
(1946) Claudia and David
as Elizabeth Van Doren
(1935) Dinky
as Martha Daniels
(1959) A Stranger in My Arms
as Virgilnie Beasley
(1930) The Lash
as Dona Rosita Garcia
(1938) Paradise for Three
as Mrs. Irene Mallebre
(1933) Convention City
as Arlene Dale
(1923) The Bright Shawl
as Narcissa Escobar
(1928) Dressed to Kill
as Jeanne
(1931) The Sin Ship
as Frisco Kitty
(1929) The Show of Shows
as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
(1930) The Runaway Bride
as Mary Gray
(1936) Lady from Nowhere
as Polly Dunlap
(1928) Heart to Heart
as Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
(1927) Two Arabian Knights
as Mirza
(1921) The Beggar Maid
as Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
(1935) Red Hot Tires
as Patricia Sanford
(1927) The Sea Tiger
as Amy Cortissos
(1973) The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
as Self (archive footage)
(1938) Woman Against Woman
as Cynthia Holland
(1929) The Woman from Hell
as Dee Renaud
(1957) The Devil's Hairpin
as Mrs. Jargin
(1925) Scarlet Saint
as Fidele Tridon
(1935) Man of Iron
as Vida
(1938) No Time to Marry
as Kay McGowan
(1957) The Ninth Day
as ---
(1927) The Rough Riders
as Dolly
(1941) Breakdowns of 1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1928) Dry Martini
as Elizabeth Quimby
(1955) The Thief
as Isabelle Lagarde
(1921) Sentimental Tommy
as ---
(1934) The Hollywood Gad-About
as Self
(1923) Second Fiddle
as Polly Crawford
(1927) Rose of the Golden West
as Elena
(1976) That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
(1997) Bogart: The Untold Story
as Self (archive footage)
(1925) Enticement
as Leonore Bewlay
(1923) The Marriage Maker
as Vivian Hope-Clarke
(1924) The Fighting Coward
as Lucy
(1923) Success
as Rose Randolph
(1928) 3-Ring Marriage
as Anna
(1923) Woman-Proof
as Violet Lynwood
(1926) Forever After
as Jennie Clayton
(1946) Okay for Sound
as Adriana (archive footage)
(1924) The Fighting American
as Mary Brainard
(1922) The Rapids
as Elsie Worden
(1926) High Steppers
as Audrey Nye
(1924) Inez from Hollywood
as Fay Bartholdi
(1924) Unguarded Women
as Helen Castle
(1960) Journey to the Day
as Helen May Whitfield
(1963) Burke's Law
as Florence Roberts
(1948) Studio One
as Ruth Sparling
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Bea Hicks
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Mrs. Fenimore
(1959) Rawhide
as Emma Cardwell
(1960) Thriller
as Rose French
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Margaret Eliot
(1954) Climax!
as Mrs. Harriss
(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
as ---
(1961) Ben Casey
as ---
(1950) Robert Montgomery Presents
as Norma Desmond
(1956) Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Sarah Simmons
(1955) Playwrights '56
as ---
(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Martha Lantzinge
(1961) The Defenders
as Flora Goode
(1953) The United States Steel Hour
as Isabelle Lagarde
(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Aunt Frances
(1954) Producers' Showcase
as Nancy Blake
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Mildred Le Brun
(1980) Hollywood
as Self
(1960) Checkmate
as Esther Brack
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Grace Dolan
(1948) Studio One
as Harriet Brand
(1954) Climax!
as Ethel Allen
(1954) Climax!
as Martha
(1954) Climax!
as Clarissa Bowman