Mary Astor

🎂 Data nașterii: 1906-05-03 (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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Mary Astor

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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Dodsworth

Midnight

The Palm Beach Story

Other Men's Women

Desert Fury

Act of Violence

Hollywood

White Shoulders

The Little Giant

Femei mici

Thousands Cheer

The Prisoner of Zenda

The Great Lie

Frumoasa din Saigon

Fiesta

Brother of the Bear

Bullets or Ballots

My Lady o' the Pines

The Young Painter

Wings of the Border

Hope

John Smith

The Man Who Played God

The Angelus

Puritan Passions

To the Ladies

Playing with Souls

The Price of a Party

The Pace That Thrills

The Wise Guy

No Place to Go

Sailors' Wives

The Sunset Derby

New Year's Eve

Return of the Terror

Yesterday and Today

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Straight from the Heart

The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

Across the Pacific

A Kiss Before Dying

The Kennel Murder Case

Listen, Darling

The Man with Two Faces

Brigham Young

The Hurricane

The Murder of Dr. Harrigan

Don Juan

The Lost Squadron

Any Number Can Play

Holiday

Youngblood Hawke

Cass Timberlane

Return to Peyton Place

Those We Love

Turnabout

Don Q Son of Zorro

Trapped by Television

Blonde Fever

The Case of the Howling Dog

Beau Brummel

This Happy Feeling

A Successful Calamity

Behind Office Doors

The Royal Bed

Romance of the Underworld

I Am a Thief

There's Always a Woman

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Cynthia

And So They Were Married

Easy to Love

The Power and the Prize

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