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Mary Astor

Mary Astor

  • Schauspiel
  • 3. Mai 1906 – 25. September 1987 · im Alter von 81
  • Quincy, Illinois, USA

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.

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  • Serie6.6
  • Serie5.7

    Dr. Kildare

    1961 · 19 votes

  • Serie3.8

    Climax!

    1954 · 12 votes

  • Serie6.0
  • Serie5.4

    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

  • Serie6.2

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    Abenteuer im wilden Westen

    1956 · 10 votes

  • Serie7.3

    Rawhide

    Tausend Meilen Staub

    1959 · 49 votes

  • Serie5.9

    Ben Casey

    1961 · 15 votes

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  1. 1997
  2. 1980
    • Hollywood

      Hollywood - Geschichten aus der Stummfilmzeit

      Serie8.4

  3. 1976
  4. 1973
  5. 1964
  6. 1963
  7. 1961
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  9. 1959
    • Rawhide

      Tausend Meilen Staub

      Serie7.3

  10. 1956
  11. 1955
  12. 1954
  13. 1953
  14. 1950
  15. 1949
  16. 1948
  17. 1947
  18. 1946
  19. 1944
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  22. 1941
  23. 1937
  24. 1936
    • Dodsworth

      Zeit der Liebe, Zeit des Abschieds

      Film7.1

  25. 1934
  26. 1933
  27. 1930