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