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