Cast & creator
Mary Astor
Best known for Climax!, Climax!, Climax!
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.
Also known as: Μαίρη Άστορ, Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke
135
film credits
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television credits
161
1921–2006 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (161)
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Climax!
Mrs. Harriss
1954Climax!
Ethel Allen
1954Climax!
Martha
1954Climax!
Clarissa Bowman
1954
Dr. Kildare
Martha Lantzinge
1961Dr. Kildare
Aunt Frances
1961
Robert Montgomery Presents
Norma Desmond
1950
Studio One
Ruth Sparling
1948Studio One
Harriet Brand
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
The Defenders
Flora Goode
1961
Ben Casey
1961
Rawhide
Emma Cardwell
1959
Burke's Law
Florence Roberts
1963
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Sarah Simmons
1956
Thriller
Rose French
1960
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Mrs. Fenimore
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Grace Dolan
1955
Checkmate
Esther Brack
1960
The United States Steel Hour
Isabelle Lagarde
1953Lux Video Theatre
Margaret Eliot
1950Lux Video Theatre
Mildred Le Brun
1950Playwrights '56
1955Producers' Showcase
Nancy Blake
1954
The Maltese Falcon
Brigid O'Shaughnessy
1941
Hollywood
Self
1980
Little Women
Marmee
1949
General Electric Theater
Bea Hicks
1953
Meet Me in St. Louis
Anna Smith
1944
The Prisoner of Zenda
Antoinette de Mauban
1937
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Jewel Mayhew
1964
A Kiss Before Dying
Mrs. Corliss
1956
The Thief
Isabelle Lagarde
1955
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
1976
The Palm Beach Story
The Princess Centimillia
1942
Cass Timberlane
Queenie Havock
1947
Any Number Can Play
Ada
1949
Brigham Young
Mary Ann Young
1940
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Self (archive footage)
1973
Return to Peyton Place
Roberta Carter
1961
Desert Fury
Fritzi Haller
1947
Dodsworth
Edith Cortright
1936
Across the Pacific
Alberta Marlow
1942
Convention City
Arlene Dale
1933
Fiesta
Señora Morales
1947
This Happy Feeling
Mrs. Tremaine
1958
Bogart: The Untold Story
Self (archive footage)
1997
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Self (archive footage)
2006
And So They Were Married
Edith Farnham
1936
The Show of Shows
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
1929
Don Q Son of Zorro
Dolores de Muro
1925
Act of Violence
Pat
1949
There's Always a Woman
Lola Fraser
1938
Red Dust
Barbara "Babs" Willis
1932
The Kennel Murder Case
Hilda Lake
1933
The Case of the Howling Dog
Bessie Foley
1934
Thousands Cheer
Hyllary Jones
1943The Troublemakers
Mattie Gerrity
1957
Straight from the Heart
Marian Henshaw
1935
The Hurricane
Mme. DeLaage
1937
The Man with Two Faces
Jessica Wells
1934
Midnight
Helene Flammarion
1939
Sentimental Tommy
1921
The Little Giant
Ruth Wayburn
1933
Breakdowns of 1941
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1941
Other Men's Women
Lily Kulper
1931
No Time to Marry
Kay McGowan
1938
The Power and the Prize
Mrs. George Salt
1956
I Am a Thief
Odette Mauclair
1934
A Stranger in My Arms
Virgilnie Beasley
1959
Youngblood Hawke
Irene Perry
1964
The Woman from Hell
Dee Renaud
1929
The Great Lie
Sandra Kovak
1941
Unguarded Women
Helen Castle
1924
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Lillian Cooper
1936
The Devil's Hairpin
Mrs. Jargin
1957
Journey to the Day
Helen May Whitfield
1960
The Rapids
Elsie Worden
1922
The Hollywood Gad-About
Self
1934
Behind Office Doors
Mary Linden
1931
Cynthia
Louise Bishop
1947
Return of the Terror
Olga Morgan
1934
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Mrs. Leslie
1960
White Shoulders
Norma Selbee
1931
Romance of the Underworld
Judith Andrews
1928
Turnabout
Marion Manning
1940
Oh, Doctor!
Dolores Hicks
1925
Claudia and David
Elizabeth Van Doren
1946
The Man Who Played God
Young Woman
1922
Don Juan
Adriana della Varnese
1926
The Runaway Bride
Mary Gray
1930
The World Changes
Virginia Claffin Nordholm
1933
Page Miss Glory
Gladys
1935
New Year's Eve
Marjorie Ware
1929
Hope
Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
1922
Rose of the Golden West
Elena
1927
Hollywood
Mary Astor
1923
Okay for Sound
Adriana (archive footage)
1946
Dinky
Martha Daniels
1935
The Rough Riders
Dolly
1927
Listen, Darling
Dottie Wingate
1938
Paradise for Three
Mrs. Irene Mallebre
1938
The Fighting American
Mary Brainard
1924
The Pace That Thrills
Doris
1925
Trapped by Television
Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
1936
Jennie Gerhardt
Letty Pace
1933
The Bright Shawl
Narcissa Escobar
1923
Upperworld
Hettie Stream
1934
No Place to Go
Sally Montgomery
1927
Young Ideas
Josephine Evans
1943
Sailors' Wives
Carol Trent
1928
Wings of the Border
1921
Those We Love
May Ballard
1932
Two Arabian Knights
Mirza
1927
Blonde Fever
Delilah Donay
1944
The Lost Squadron
Follette Marsh
1932My Lady o' the Pines
Norah Collison
1921
Yesterday and Today
(archive footage)
1953
Holiday
Julia Seton
1930
Men of Chance
Marthe
1931
Beau Brummel
Lady Margery Alvanley
1924
The Royal Bed
Princess Anne
1931
The Sea Tiger
Amy Cortissos
1927
The Ninth Day
1957
The Beggar Maid
Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
1921
The Price of a Party
Alice Barrows
1924The Littlest Enemy
Mrs. Wickens
1958
3-Ring Marriage
Anna
1928
Ladies Love Brutes
Mimi Howell
1930
The Wise Guy
Mary
1926
Woman-Proof
Violet Lynwood
1923
A Successful Calamity
Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
1932
Woman Against Woman
Cynthia Holland
1938
High Steppers
Audrey Nye
1926
Smart Woman
Nancy Gibson
1931Brother of the Bear
Marcia Harthorn
1921
Lady from Nowhere
Polly Dunlap
1936
Red Hot Tires
Patricia Sanford
1935
The Marriage Maker
Vivian Hope-Clarke
1923
Easy to Love
Charlotte
1934
To the Ladies
Undetermined Secondary Role
1924
Inez from Hollywood
Fay Bartholdi
1924
The Sin Ship
Frisco Kitty
1931
The Lash
Dona Rosita Garcia
1930
Second Fiddle
Polly Crawford
1923
Man of Iron
Vida
1935
Dressed to Kill
Jeanne
1928
The Fighting Coward
Lucy
1924
Puritan Passions
Rachel
1923
Heart to Heart
Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
1928
John Smith
Irene Mason
1922
Scarlet Saint
Fidele Tridon
1925
The Sunset Derby
Molly Gibson
1927
The Young Painter
Helen Seymour
1922
Playing with Souls
Margo
1925
Forever After
Jennie Clayton
1926
Dry Martini
Elizabeth Quimby
1928
Success
Rose Randolph
1923
Enticement
Leonore Bewlay
1925Bullets or Ballots
Bit Part
1921The Angelus
Bit Part
1922