Mary Astor
Acting
Born 1906-05-03
Died 1987-09-25
Quincy, Illinois, USA
153 credits
Academy Awards 1
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Awards
Won 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 won
- 1942 Best Supporting Actress Won The Great Lie
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- 1960 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
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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."
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Acting
56 credits
Robert Montgomery Presents
Dr. Kildare
Rawhide
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Burke's Law
Climax!
Thriller
The Defenders
Studio One
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The United States Steel Hour
Checkmate
Lux Video Theatre
The Maltese Falcon
Producers' Showcase
Little Women
Hollywood
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Meet Me in St. Louis
Brigham Young
That's Entertainment, Part II
Cass Timberlane
The Show of Shows
General Electric Theater
Across the Pacific
Act of Violence
Desert Fury
Red Dust
The Palm Beach Story
The Great Lie
The Prisoner of Zenda
A Kiss Before Dying
Midnight
Fiesta
Dodsworth
Convention City
The Thief
The Hurricane
The Rapids
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Page Miss Glory
Return to Peyton Place
White Shoulders
Don Q Son of Zorro
Holiday
The Fighting American
Breakdowns of 1941
Youngblood Hawke
Hollywood
Two Arabian Knights
Thousands Cheer
Listen, Darling
Claudia and David
There's Always a Woman
The Kennel Murder Case
Cynthia
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