Gertrude Astor

Personal Info

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Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1887-11-09 (90 years old)

Deathday

1977-11-09

Place of Birth

Lakewood, Ohio, USA

Gertrude Astor

Biography

Gertrude Astor (Born Gertrude Eyster November 9, 1887 – November 9, 1977) was an American motion picture character actress, who began her career playing trombone on a riverboat. Born in Lakewood, Ohio, Astor at the age of 12 ran off and joined a woman's band as a trombone player and toured the states. In New York she left the band to obtain film work and got a job as an extra before her career took off. Astor was a prolific performer, between 1915 and 1962 she appeared in over 250 movies. Her first known credit is in a Biograph short in 1915. She then became a contract player at Universal. A tall, angular and beautiful woman, Astor frequent...

Acting

1954

Deep in My Heart

as Dorothy's Nurse (uncredited)

1937

Easy Living

as Saleswoman (uncredited)

1955

The Virgin Queen

as Lady-in-Waiting - 2nd Group

1929

Frozen Justice

as Moosehide Kate

1921

Her Mad Bargain

as Ruth Beresford

1917

The Scarlet Crystal

as Helen Forbes

1923

Hollywood

as Gertrude Astor

1917

1915

Under Two Flags

as Venetia

1917

The Lash of Power

as Phyllis Ward

1919

What Am I Bid?

as Diana Newlands

1941

The Wolf Man

as Townswoman (uncredited)

1917

1926

The Old Soak

as Sylvia De Costa

1922

The Ninety and Nine

as Kate Van Dyke

1917

Bombs and Banknotes

as His Daughter

1928

The Butter and Egg Man

as Fanny Lehman

1922

Skin Deep

as Mrs. Carlson

1923

The Wanters

as Mrs. Van Pelt

1934

The Chases of Pimple Street

as Gertrude Astor - Lucas' Fiancee (uncredited)

1961

The Devil's Hand

as The Elderly Cultist

1931

Come Clean

as Mrs. Hardy

1926

The Strong Man

as Lily de Broadway

1957

My Man Godfrey

as Party Guest (uncredited)

1933

Wine, Women and Song

as Jennie Tilson

1933

The Plumber and the Lady

as Mrs. Otto Mauser

1919

Loot

as Lady Gwendolyn

1927

Uncle Tom's Cabin

as Mrs. St. Clare (uncredited)

1923

1952

Fort Osage

as Townswoman (uncredited)

1952

The Old West

as Townswoman (uncredited)

1921

Through The Back Door

as Louise Reeves

1926

Don Juan's 3 Nights

as Baroness von Minden

1948

Here Comes Trouble

as Woman with Dog (uncredited)

1922

You Never Know

as Miriam Folansbee

1919

The Wicked Darling

as Adele Hoyt

1942

Reap the Wild Wind

as Ball Guest (uncredited)

1935

The Drunkard

as Peggy

1917

Bucking Broadway

as Gladys (uncredited)

1925

Stage Struck

as Lillian Lyons

1924

Broadway or Bust

as Mrs. Dean Smythe

1926

Wife Tamers

as Mrs. Barry

1930

Be Yourself!

as Lillian

1937

1922

Lorna Doone

as Countess of Brandir (uncredited)

1946

The Best Years of Our Lives

as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

1922

The Kentucky Derby

as Helen Gordon

1932

High Hats and Low Brows

as Mrs. Billingsgate

1930

Live and Learn

as Mrs. Brown

1933

Carnival Lady

as Zandra, Fortune Teller

1932

Running Hollywood

as Gertrude Astor

1926

Kiki

as Paulette Mascar

1926

Dizzy Daddies

as A Former Flame

1961

All in a Night's Work

as Customer (uncredited)

1930

Dames Ahoy

as The Blonde

1929

Untamed

as Mrs. Mason

1959

The Best of Everything

as Leading Woman in Play (uncredited)

1933

I Have Lived

as Harriet Naisson

1935

I Don't Remember

as Sophie Glick

1927

1925

Kentucky Pride

as Mrs. Beaumont

1924

Secrets

as Mrs. Manwaring

1929

Synthetic Sin

as Sheila Kelly

1926

The Boy Friend

as Mrs. White

1946

Dragonwyck

as Nurse (uncredited)

1932

In Walked Charley

as Gertrude Henderson

1946

Calcutta

as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

1920

The Branding Iron

as Betty Morena

1922

Beyond the Rocks

as Morella Winmarleigh

1926

Behind the Front

as French barmaid

1937

Wells Fargo

as Pioneer Woman

1939

The Llano Kid

as Saloon Hostess

1960

Sergeant Rutledge

as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

1954

A Star Is Born

as Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)

1931

Poker Widows

as Mrs. Thomas Regan

1935

Here Comes the Band

as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

1950

All About Eve

as Sarah Siddons Awards Guest (uncredited)

1939

The Women

as Mud Bath Nurse (uncredited)

1948

Sitting Pretty

as Townswoman (uncredited)

1936

Empty Saddles

as Eloise Hayes

1939

Dust Be My Destiny

as Dame (uncredited)

1927

Oh, What a Man!

as The Bandit

1946

Sister Kenny

as Doctor (uncredited)

1948

My Dear Secretary

as Miss Gee (uncredited)

1950

Again Pioneers

as Mrs. Jans

1945

An Angel Comes To Brooklyn

as Eva Tanguay (uncredited)

1936

Postal Inspector

as Woman with Drumsticks (uncredited)

1950

Woman in Hiding

as Woman in Drugstore (uncredited)

1947

Monsieur Verdoux

as Garden Party Guest (uncredited)

1924

The Torrent

as The Cast-Off

1941

Hold Back the Dawn

as Young Woman in Bar (uncredited)

1934

1935

Cappy Ricks Returns

as Speaker (uncredited)

1932

Western Limited

as Mrs. Winters

1926

Tell 'Em Nothing

as Mrs. Gladstone

1962

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

as Townswoman (uncredited)

1927

1929

Twin Beds

as Mrs. Solari

1925

The Charmer

as Bertha Sedgwick

1953

Angel Face

as Matron (uncredited)

1940

Misbehaving Husbands

as Gossiping Friend

1950

Sunset Boulevard

as Courtier (uncredited)

1940

The Doctor Takes a Wife

as Extra (uncredited)

1953

Scared Stiff

as Man with Spaghetti's Wife (uncredited)

1935

It's in the Air

as (uncredited)

1938

The Big Broadcast of 1938

as Woman (uncredited)

1959

The Tingler

as Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

1917

Cheyenne's Pal

as Dancehall girl

1961

Two Rode Together

as Mrs. Wringle (uncredited)

1952

Scandal Sheet

as Neighbor (uncredited)

1956

Around the World in Eighty Days

as Extra (uncredited)

1925

The Reckless Sex

as Lucile Dupré

1955

Daddy Long Legs

as Art Gallery Patron (uncredited)

1945

Girls of the Big House

as Railroad Matron

1935

Border Brigands

as Big Six -Saloon Girl

1948

3 Godfathers

as Saloon Girl (uncredited)

1942

Lost Canyon

as Mrs. Anson

1938

Tassels in the Air

as Louella Pindell (uncredited)

1943

Idaho

as Party Guest

1935

Honeymoon Limited

as Lady Devonshire

1943

1943

The Kansan

as Blonde Townswoman

1952

Paula

as Mrs. Brown (uncredited)

1936

San Francisco

as Drunk's Girl (uncredited)

1964

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

as Denver Party Guest (uncredited)

1929

1927

The Taxi Dancer

as Kitty Lane

1917

Polly Redhead

as Lady Caroline

1951

When Worlds Collide

as Traveler (uncredited)

1932

Flaming Gold

as Escort Service Madam

1951

A Place in the Sun

as Bit Part (uncredited)

1965

The Sound of Music

as Party Guest (uncredited)

1929

The Fall of Eve

as Mrs. Ford

1923

The Ne'er-Do-Well

as Edith Cortlandt

1939

$1,000 a Touchdown

as McGlen Wife (uncredited)

1928

A Woman of Affairs

as Party Guest (uncredited)

1947

Fun on a Weekend

as Party Guest (Uncredited)

1945

Leave Her to Heaven

as Prison Matron (uncredited)

1917

Bondage

as Eugenia Darth

1917

The Devil's Pay Day

as Hazel Davidson

1918

The Brazen Beauty

as Mrs. Augusta Van Ruysdael

1917

The Rescue

as Mrs. Hendricks

1917

The Little Orphan

as Emmeline Warren

1950

Bunco Squad

as Club Patron (uncredited)

1922

Hurricane's Gal

as Phyllis Fairfield

1945

Swingin' on a Rainbow

as Bit Part (uncredited)

1921

1935

No More Ladies

as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

1942

Moontide

as Woman (uncredited)

1922

1949

The File on Thelma Jordon

as Juror (Uncredited)

1928

Rose-Marie

as Wanda

1931

Hell Bound

as Rosie

1955

Wichita

as Saloon Madam (uncredited)

1951

Thunder on the Hill

as Village Woman (uncredited)

1936

Great Guy

as Party Guest (Uncredited)

1922

The Wall Flower

as Pamela Shiel

1944

The Climax

as Woman in Audience Behind Franz (Uncredited)

1924

The Silent Watcher

as Mrs. Steele

1922

The Impossible Mrs. Bellew

as Alice Granville

1933

Crook's Tour

as Mrs Dorigan

1944

Weird Woman

as Party Guest (uncredited)

1925

Satan in Sables

as Dolores Sierra

1958

The Female Animal

as Actress on Movie Set (uncredited)

1950

Caged

as Inmate (uncredited)

1959

The Horse Soldiers

as Townswoman (uncredited)

1946

Crack-Up

as Nagging Wife on Train (Uncredited)

1926

The Country Beyond

as Mrs. Andrews

1925

Laughing Ladies

as The Married Man's Wife

1934

Washee Ironee

as Woman at Party

1925

1949

The Doolins of Oklahoma

as Saloon Girl (uncredited)

1945

Dick Tracy

as Woman (uncredited)

1952

The Merry Widow

as Reception Guest (uncredited)

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Alice Adams

as Mildred Palmer

1936

Wives Never Know

as Mrs. Merchant (uncredited)

1925

Ship of Souls

as Doris Barnes

1919

The Delicious Little Devil

as Auditioning Dancer (uncredited)

1951

Apache Drums

as Townswoman (uncredited)

1918

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