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Mary Astor

Mary Astor

Actor · 1906 – 1987 · 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.

Movies24

  • Movie7.7

    The Maltese Falcon

    1941 · 1.9K votes

  • Movie7.4

    Little Women

    1949 · 233 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Meet Me in St. Louis

    1944 · 438 votes

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    The Prisoner of Zenda

    1937 · 62 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Across the Pacific

    1942 · 88 votes

  • Movie7.0

    The Palm Beach Story

    1942 · 213 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Act of Violence

    1949 · 109 votes

  • Movie6.3

    A Kiss Before Dying

    1956 · 73 votes

  • Movie7.0
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    Cass Timberlane

    1947 · 9 votes

  • Movie7.0

    The Great Lie

    1941 · 54 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Thousands Cheer

    1943 · 21 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Dodsworth

    1936 · 150 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Hurricane

    1937 · 60 votes

  • Movie4.6

    Brigham Young

    1940 · 17 votes

  • Movie4.2

    Convention City

    1933 · 5 votes

  • Movie7.4

    Midnight

    1939 · 98 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Return to Peyton Place

    1961 · 42 votes

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  • Movie6.2

    Fiesta

    1947 · 5 votes

  • Movie4.0

    The Thief

    1955 · 5 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Any Number Can Play

    1949 · 13 votes

  • Movie6.1

    The Kennel Murder Case

    1933 · 60 votes

Series19

  • TV5.7

    Dr. Kildare

    1961 · 19 votes

  • TV5.4

    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

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    Climax!

    1954 · 12 votes

  • TV6.3

    The Defenders

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV5.9

    Ben Casey

    1961 · 15 votes

  • TV7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955 · 266 votes

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  • TV7.2

    Rawhide

    1959 · 49 votes

  • TV6.3

    Burke's Law

    1963 · 12 votes

  • TV6.7

    Thriller

    1960 · 20 votes

  • TV4.8

    Checkmate

    1960 · 8 votes

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    Lux Video Theatre

    1950 · 7 votes

  • TV6.8

    Producers' Showcase

    1954 · 5 votes

  • TV6.3

    Playwrights '56

    1955 · 4 votes

  • TV8.4

    Hollywood

    1980 · 17 votes

  • TV6.8