8.5
8.5
Hollywood
1923
as Mary Astor
Mary Astor
Also known as: Lucile Langhanke, Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke, Astor...
Acting
Born:May 3, 1906
Died:September 25, 1987(aged 81)
Birthplace:Quincy, Illinois, USA
Nationality:United States
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CommunityBiography
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.
Notable Works
The Great Lie
Filmography (131 movies)
7.8
7.8
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
2006
as Self (archive footage)
7.7
7.7
The Maltese Falcon
1941
as Brigid O'Shaughnessy
7.5
7.5
The Prisoner of Zenda
1937
as Antoinette de Mauban
7.4
7.4
Little Women
1949
as Marmee
7.3
7.3
Midnight
1939
as Helene Flammarion
7.3
7.3
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964
as Jewel Mayhew
7.1
7.1
Dodsworth
1936
as Edith Cortright
7.0
7.0
Breakdowns of 1941
1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
7.0
7.0
Meet Me in St. Louis
1944
as Anna Smith
7.0
7.0
The Palm Beach Story
1942
as The Princess Centimillia
6.9
6.9
Beau Brummel
1924
as Lady Margery Alvanley
6.9
6.9
Red Dust
1932
as Barbara "Babs" Willis
6.9
6.9
Act of Violence
1949
as Pat
6.9
6.9
The Great Lie
1941
as Sandra Kovak
6.9
6.9
Any Number Can Play
1949
as Ada
6.8
6.8
Paradise for Three
1938
as Mrs. Irene Mallebre
6.8
6.8
The Little Giant
1933
as Ruth Wayburn
6.7
6.7
Dinky
1935
as Martha Daniels
6.7
6.7
The Hurricane
1937
as Mme. DeLaage
6.6
6.6
Don Q Son of Zorro
1925
as Dolores de Muro
6.6
6.6
The Man with Two Faces
1934
as Jessica Wells
6.6
6.6
Across the Pacific
1942
as Alberta Marlow
6.5
6.5
Return to Peyton Place
1961
as Mrs. Roberta Carter
6.5
6.5
Woman Against Woman
1938
as Cynthia Holland
6.4
6.4
Trapped by Television
1936
as Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
6.4
6.4
Don Juan
1926
as Adriana della Varnese
6.4
6.4
Thousands Cheer
1943
as Hyllary Jones
6.3
6.3
Page Miss Glory
1935
as Gladys
6.3
6.3
Upperworld
1934
as Hettie Stream
6.3
6.3
The Lost Squadron
1932
as Follette Marsh
6.3
6.3
Listen, Darling
1938
as Dottie Wingate
6.2
6.2
Holiday
1930
as Julia Seton
6.2
6.2
A Kiss Before Dying
1956
as Mrs. Corliss
6.2
6.2
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934
as Bessie Foley
6.1
6.1
Youngblood Hawke
1964
as Irene Perry
6.0
6.0
The Kennel Murder Case
1933
as Hilda Lake
6.0
6.0
Those We Love
1932
as May Ballard
6.0
6.0
No Time to Marry
1938
as Kay McGowan
6.0
6.0
Claudia and David
1946
as Elizabeth Van Doren
6.0
6.0
I Am a Thief
1934
as Odette Mauclair
6.0
6.0
Desert Fury
1947
as Fritzi Haller
6.0
6.0
Man of Iron
1935
as Vida
6.0
6.0
Return of the Terror
1934
as Olga Morgan
5.9
5.9
Cynthia
1947
as Louise Bishop
5.8
5.8
Turnabout
1940
as Marion Manning
5.8
5.8
And So They Were Married
1936
as Edith Farnham
5.8
5.8
Men of Chance
1931
as Marthe
5.8
5.8
The Sin Ship
1931
as Frisco Kitty
5.8
5.8
Red Hot Tires
1935
as Patricia Sanford
5.8
5.8
There's Always a Woman
1938
as Lola Fraser
5.8
5.8
Two Arabian Knights
1927
as Mirza
5.7
5.7
The Fighting American
1924
as Mary Brainard
5.7
5.7
Ladies Love Brutes
1930
as Mimi Howell
5.7
5.7
Oh, Doctor!
1925
as Dolores Hicks
5.6
5.6
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
1936
as Lillian Cooper
5.5
5.5
Other Men's Women
1931
as Lily Kulper
5.5
5.5
The Power and the Prize
1956
as Mrs. George Salt
5.5
5.5
Cass Timberlane
1947
as Queenie Havock
5.5
5.5
The Beggar Maid
1921
as Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
5.3
5.3
The Lash
1930
as Dona Rosita Garcia
5.3
5.3
Smart Woman
1931
as Nancy Gibson
5.2
5.2
A Successful Calamity
1932
as Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
5.0
5.0
The Hollywood Gad-About
1934
as Self
5.0
5.0
The Devil's Hairpin
1957
as Mrs. Jargin
5.0
5.0
Okay for Sound
1946
as Adriana (archive footage)
5.0
5.0
The Runaway Bride
1930
as Mary Gray
4.8
4.8
The Fighting Coward
1924
as Lucy
4.7
4.7
Fiesta
1947
as Señora Morales
4.7
4.7
Behind Office Doors
1931
as Mary Linden
4.6
4.6
Easy to Love
1934
as Charlotte
4.6
4.6
Young Ideas
1943
as Josephine Evans
4.5
4.5
Romance of the Underworld
1928
as Judith Andrews
4.4
4.4
Brigham Young
1940
as Mary Ann Young
4.3
4.3
The World Changes
1933
as Virginia Claffin Nordholm
4.0
4.0
Sentimental Tommy
1921
4.0
4.0
Jennie Gerhardt
1933
as Letty Pace
4.0
4.0
The Thief
1955
as Isabelle Lagarde
4.0
4.0
My Lady o' the Pines
1921
as Norah Collison
4.0
4.0
The Rough Riders
1927
as Dolly
4.0
4.0
This Happy Feeling
1958
as Mrs. Tremaine
3.9
3.9
Blonde Fever
1944
as Delilah Donay
3.8
3.8
The Royal Bed
1931
as Princess Anne
3.2
3.2
A Stranger in My Arms
1959
as Virgilnie Beasley
3.0
3.0
Convention City
1933
as Arlene Dale
Playing with Souls
1925
as Margo
The Pace That Thrills
1925
as Doris
The Wise Guy
1926
as Mary
The Sunset Derby
1927
as Molly Gibson
Lady from Nowhere
1936
as Polly Dunlap
Sailors' Wives
1928
as Carol Trent
New Year's Eve
1929
as Marjorie Ware
Straight from the Heart
1935
as Marian Henshaw
Yesterday and Today
1953
as (archive footage)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1960
as Mrs. Leslie
The Ninth Day
1957
Journey to the Day
1960
as Helen May Whitfield
No Place to Go
1927
as Sally Montgomery
Second Fiddle
1923
as Polly Crawford
Forever After
1926
as Jennie Clayton
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997
as Self (archive footage)
The Bright Shawl
1923
as Narcissa Escobar
Dressed to Kill
1928
as Jeanne
Heart to Heart
1928
as Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
The Sea Tiger
1927
as Amy Cortissos
The Woman from Hell
1929
as Dee Renaud
Scarlet Saint
1925
as Fidele Tridon
White Shoulders
1931
as Norma Selbee
Dry Martini
1928
as Elizabeth Quimby
Rose of the Golden West
1927
as Elena
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973
as Self (archive footage)
3-Ring Marriage
1928
as Anna
Enticement
1925
as Leonore Bewlay
The Marriage Maker
1923
as Vivian Hope-Clarke
Woman-Proof
1923
as Violet Lynwood
Success
1923
as Rose Randolph
The Rapids
1922
as Elsie Worden
High Steppers
1926
as Audrey Nye
Inez from Hollywood
1924
as Fay Bartholdi
The Price of a Party
1924
as Alice Barrows
The Man Who Played God
1922
as Young Woman
Unguarded Women
1924
as Helen Castle
Brother of the Bear
1921
as Marcia Harthorn
Wings of the Border
1921
Bullets or Ballots
1921
as Bit Part
The Young Painter
1922
as Helen Seymour
John Smith
1922
as Irene Mason
Hope
1922
as Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
The Angelus
1922
as Bit Part
Puritan Passions
1923
as Rachel
To the Ladies
1924
as Undetermined Secondary Role
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