
Mary Astor
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.
153 acting credits
Acting · 153

The Philco Television Playhouse
1948

Dr. Kildare
1961

Robert Montgomery Presents
1950

Climax!
1954

Ben Casey
1961

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956

Burke's Law
1963

Rawhide
1959

Studio One
1948

Thriller
1960

The Defenders
1961

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Checkmate
1960

The United States Steel Hour
1953
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Producers' Showcase
1954
Playwrights '56
1955

Little Women
1949

Hollywood
1980

The Maltese Falcon
1941

General Electric Theater
1953

Desert Fury
1947

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964

Meet Me in St. Louis
1944

Act of Violence
1949

The Prisoner of Zenda
1937

The Great Lie
1941

The Palm Beach Story
1942

Dodsworth
1936

A Kiss Before Dying
1956

Midnight
1939

Don Juan
1926

Rose of the Golden West
1927

Upperworld
1934

The Hurricane
1937

Red Dust
1932

That's Entertainment, Part II
1976

The Case of the Howling Dog
1934

Dinky
1935

Turnabout
1940

Return to Peyton Place
1961

Hollywood
1923

Any Number Can Play
1949

Across the Pacific
1942

The Kennel Murder Case
1933

Listen, Darling
1938

Sailors' Wives
1928

The Show of Shows
1929

The Man with Two Faces
1934

Beau Brummel
1924

Blonde Fever
1944

Other Men's Women
1931

Brigham Young
1940

The World Changes
1933

Behind Office Doors
1931

Holiday
1930

Cass Timberlane
1947

Smart Woman
1931

Woman Against Woman
1938

Youngblood Hawke
1964

There's Always a Woman
1938

Thousands Cheer
1943

Cynthia
1947

Bogart: The Untold Story
1997

A Successful Calamity
1932

Jennie Gerhardt
1933

The Lost Squadron
1932

Young Ideas
1943

Page Miss Glory
1935

The Lash
1930

Paradise for Three
1938

Fiesta
1947

The Little Giant
1933

The Runaway Bride
1930

Convention City
1933

Straight from the Heart
1935

This Happy Feeling
1958

The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1960

Two Arabian Knights
1927

The Power and the Prize
1956

Oh, Doctor!
1925

And So They Were Married
1936

The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
2006

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973

The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
1936

Romance of the Underworld
1928

The Bright Shawl
1923

The Hollywood Gad-About
1934

Okay for Sound
1946

White Shoulders
1931

Those We Love
1932

The Devil's Hairpin
1957

The Thief
1955

Forever After
1926

I Am a Thief
1934

Man of Iron
1935

Claudia and David
1946

The Royal Bed
1931

The Sea Tiger
1927

No Time to Marry
1938

Return of the Terror
1934

John Smith
1922

Breakdowns of 1941
1941

High Steppers
1926

The Sunset Derby
1927

Inez from Hollywood
1924

Yesterday and Today
1953

New Year's Eve
1929

Don Q Son of Zorro
1925

The Rapids
1922

Dressed to Kill
1928

Easy to Love
1934

Trapped by Television
1936

Woman-Proof
1923

Lady from Nowhere
1936

Ladies Love Brutes
1930

Success
1923

A Stranger in My Arms
1959

Dry Martini
1928

The Marriage Maker
1923

Sentimental Tommy
1921

No Place to Go
1927

The Woman from Hell
1929

The Man Who Played God
1922

Puritan Passions
1923

Playing with Souls
1925

Journey to the Day
1960

The Sin Ship
1931

To the Ladies
1924

Men of Chance
1931

The Wise Guy
1926
My Lady o' the Pines
1921

Heart to Heart
1928

The Pace That Thrills
1925
Brother of the Bear
1921

The Rough Riders
1927

Scarlet Saint
1925

Second Fiddle
1923

The Ninth Day
1957

Red Hot Tires
1935

3-Ring Marriage
1928

Unguarded Women
1924

The Fighting American
1924

The Price of a Party
1924
The Littlest Enemy
1958

Enticement
1925

Hope
1922

The Fighting Coward
1924

Wings of the Border
1921

The Beggar Maid
1921

The Young Painter
1922
The Angelus
1922
Bullets or Ballots
1921