Gertrude Astor

🎂 Data nașterii: 1887-11-09 (Lakewood, Ohio, USA)

Gertrude Astor (Born Gertrude Eyster November 9, 1887 – November 9, 1977) was an American motion picture character actress, who began her career playing trombone on a riverboat. Born in Lakewood, Ohio, Astor at the age of 12 ran off and joined a woman's band as a trombone player and toured the states. In New York she left the band to obtain film work and got a job as an extra before her career took off. Astor was a prolific performer, between 1915 and 1962 she appeared in over 250 movies. Her first known credit is in a Biograph short in 1915. She then became a contract player at Universal. A tall, angular and beautiful woman, Astor frequently towered over the leading men of the era; thus, she was most frequently utilized in comedy roles as aristocrats, golddiggers and "heroine's best pal". Her best-known silent appearances were as the visiting stage star in Stage Struck (1925) with Gloria Swanson, as the vamp who plants stolen money on Harry Langdon in The Strong Man (1926), and as Laura LaPlante's wisecracking travelling companion in The Cat and the Canary (1927). Astor worked prolifically at Hal Roach studios with such headliners as Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, and especially Charley Chase. She was also kept busy at Columbia Pictures' short subjects unit. She continued to play bits in feature films throughout the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. She was briefly glimpsed as the first murder victim in the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Scarlet Claw and was among the ranks of dress extras in 1956's Around the World in Eighty Days. Her last appearance was in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. In her later years, Astor was a welcome guest at several Sons of the Desert gatherings, and became an honorary member of the Way Out West tent. She died in Woodland Hills, California from a stroke. She is interred in the Abbey of Psalms in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, CA.

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Deep in My Heart

Easy Living

The Virgin Queen

Frozen Justice

Her Mad Bargain

The Fatal Warning

The Scarlet Crystal

Hollywood

The Price of a Good Time

Under Two Flags

The Lash of Power

What Am I Bid?

The Wolf Man

The Girl Who Won Out

The Old Soak

The Ninety and Nine

Bombs and Banknotes

The Butter and Egg Man

The Family Group

Chasing Husbands

Skin Deep

The Wanters

The Chases of Pimple Street

The Devil's Hand

Come Clean

The Strong Man

My Man Godfrey

Wine, Women and Song

The Plumber and the Lady

Loot

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Rupert of Hentzau

Fort Osage

The Old West

Through the Back Door

Don Juan's 3 Nights

Here Comes Trouble

You Never Know

The Wicked Darling

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The Drunkard

Bucking Broadway

Stage Struck

Broadway or Bust

The Ridin' Kid from Powder River

Wife Tamers

Be Yourself!

All Over Town

Lorna Doone

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The Kentucky Derby

High Hats and Low Brows

Live and Learn

Carnival Lady

Rich Relations

Running Hollywood

Wedding Belles

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

Kiki

Dizzy Daddies

All in a Night's Work

They Never Come Back

Dames Ahoy

Untamed

The Best of Everything

I Have Lived

I Don't Remember

The Small Bachelor

Frisco Lil

Kentucky Pride

Secrets

Synthetic Sin

The Boy Friend

Dragonwyck

In Walked Charley

The Cat and the Canary

While Paris Sleeps

Calcutta