Mary Astor

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1906-05-03 (81 years old)

Deathday

1987-09-25

Place of Birth

Quincy, Illinois, USA

Mary Astor

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-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 scr...

Acting

1944

1941

The Maltese Falcon

as Brigid O'Shaughnessy

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

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

1922

Hope

as Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

1922

John Smith

as Irene Mason

1922

1923

1922

The Angelus

as Bit Part

1924

To the Ladies

as Undetermined Secondary Role

1924

The Price of a Party

as Alice Barrows

1925

1927

No Place to Go

as Sally Montgomery

1926

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

2006

1942

Across the Pacific

as Alberta Marlow

1956

A Kiss Before Dying

as Mrs. Corliss

1933

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

1926

Don Juan

as Adriana della Varnese

1932

The Lost Squadron

as Follette Marsh

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

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

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

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

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

1921

The Beggar Maid

as Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid

1935

Red Hot Tires

as Patricia Sanford

1927

The Sea Tiger

as Amy Cortissos

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

1938

No Time to Marry

as Kay McGowan

1927

1941

Breakdowns of 1941

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1928

Dry Martini

as Elizabeth Quimby

1955

The Thief

as Isabelle Lagarde

1923

Second Fiddle

as Polly Crawford

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

1923

Success

as Rose Randolph

1928

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

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