Mary Astor
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
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-husb...
Known For
Filmography
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
2006
as Self (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood
1980
as Self
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
as (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973
as Self (archive footage)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964
as Jewel Mayhew
Youngblood Hawke
1964
as Irene Perry
Burke's Law
1963
as Florence Roberts
Return to Peyton Place
1961
as Roberta Carter
Ben Casey
1961
Dr. Kildare
1961
as Martha Lantzinge
The Defenders
1961
as Flora Goode
Dr. Kildare
1961
as Aunt Frances
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1960
as Mrs. Leslie
Journey to the Day
1960
as Helen May Whitfield
Thriller
1960
as Rose French
Checkmate
1960
as Esther Brack
A Stranger in My Arms
1959
as Virgilnie Beasley
Rawhide
1959
as Emma Cardwell
This Happy Feeling
1958
as Mrs. Tremaine
The Littlest Enemy
1958
as Mrs. Wickens
The Devil's Hairpin
1957
as Mrs. Jargin
The Ninth Day
1957
The Troublemakers
1957
as Mattie Gerrity
A Kiss Before Dying
1956
as Mrs. Corliss
The Power and the Prize
1956
as Mrs. George Salt
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Sarah Simmons
The Thief
1955
as Isabelle Lagarde
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Mrs. Fenimore
Playwrights '56
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Grace Dolan
Climax!
1954
as Mrs. Harriss
Producers' Showcase
1954
as Nancy Blake
Climax!
1954
as Ethel Allen
Climax!
1954
as Martha
Climax!
1954
as Clarissa Bowman
Yesterday and Today
1953
as (archive footage)
General Electric Theater
1953
as Bea Hicks
The United States Steel Hour
1953
as Isabelle Lagarde
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Margaret Eliot
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Norma Desmond
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Mildred Le Brun
Act of Violence
1949
as Pat
Little Women
1949
as Marmee
Any Number Can Play
1949
as Ada
Studio One
1948
as Ruth Sparling
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
Studio One
1948
as Harriet Brand
Desert Fury
1947
as Fritzi Haller
Fiesta
1947
as Señora Morales
Cass Timberlane
1947
as Queenie Havock
Cynthia
1947
as Louise Bishop
Claudia and David
1946
as Elizabeth Van Doren
Okay for Sound
1946
as Adriana (archive footage)
Meet Me in St. Louis
1944
as Anna Smith
Blonde Fever
1944
as Delilah Donay
Thousands Cheer
1943
as Hyllary Jones
Young Ideas
1943
as Josephine Evans
The Palm Beach Story
1942
as The Princess Centimillia
Across the Pacific
1942
as Alberta Marlow
The Maltese Falcon
1941
as Brigid O'Shaughnessy
The Great Lie
1941
as Sandra Kovak
Breakdowns of 1941
1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brigham Young
1940
as Mary Ann Young
Turnabout
1940
as Marion Manning
Midnight
1939
as Helene Flammarion
Listen, Darling
1938
as Dottie Wingate
There's Always a Woman
1938
as Lola Fraser
Paradise for Three
1938
as Mrs. Irene Mallebre
Woman Against Woman
1938
as Cynthia Holland
No Time to Marry
1938
as Kay McGowan
The Prisoner of Zenda
1937
as Antoinette de Mauban
The Hurricane
1937
as Mme. DeLaage
Dodsworth
1936
as Edith Cortright
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
1936
as Lillian Cooper
Trapped by Television
1936
as Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
And So They Were Married
1936
as Edith Farnham
Lady from Nowhere
1936
as Polly Dunlap
Straight from the Heart
1935
as Marian Henshaw
Page Miss Glory
1935
as Gladys
Dinky
1935
as Martha Daniels
Red Hot Tires
1935
as Patricia Sanford
Man of Iron
1935
as Vida
Return of the Terror
1934
as Olga Morgan
The Man with Two Faces
1934
as Jessica Wells
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934
as Bessie Foley
I Am a Thief
1934
as Odette Mauclair
Easy to Love
1934
as Charlotte
Upperworld
1934
as Hettie Stream
The Hollywood Gad-About
1934
as Self
The Little Giant
1933
as Ruth Wayburn
The Kennel Murder Case
1933
as Hilda Lake
Jennie Gerhardt
1933
as Letty Pace
The World Changes
1933
as Virginia Claffin Nordholm
Convention City
1933
as Arlene Dale
Red Dust
1932
as Barbara "Babs" Willis
The Lost Squadron
1932
as Follette Marsh
Those We Love
1932
as May Ballard
A Successful Calamity
1932
as Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
Other Men's Women
1931
as Lily Kulper
White Shoulders
1931
as Norma Selbee
Behind Office Doors
1931
as Mary Linden
The Royal Bed
1931
as Princess Anne
Smart Woman
1931
as Nancy Gibson
Men of Chance
1931
as Marthe
The Sin Ship
1931
as Frisco Kitty
Holiday
1930
as Julia Seton
Ladies Love Brutes
1930
as Mimi Howell
The Lash
1930
as Dona Rosita Garcia
The Runaway Bride
1930
as Mary Gray
New Year's Eve
1929
as Marjorie Ware
The Show of Shows
1929
as Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
The Woman from Hell
1929
as Dee Renaud
Sailors' Wives
1928
as Carol Trent
Romance of the Underworld
1928
as Judith Andrews
Dressed to Kill
1928
as Jeanne
Heart to Heart
1928
as Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
Dry Martini
1928
as Elizabeth Quimby
3-Ring Marriage
1928
as Anna
No Place to Go
1927
as Sally Montgomery
The Sunset Derby
1927
as Molly Gibson
Two Arabian Knights
1927
as Mirza
The Sea Tiger
1927
as Amy Cortissos
The Rough Riders
1927
as Dolly
Rose of the Golden West
1927
as Elena
The Wise Guy
1926
as Mary
Don Juan
1926
as Adriana della Varnese
Forever After
1926
as Jennie Clayton
High Steppers
1926
as Audrey Nye
Playing with Souls
1925
as Margo
The Pace That Thrills
1925
as Doris
Don Q Son of Zorro
1925
as Dolores de Muro
Oh, Doctor!
1925
as Dolores Hicks
Scarlet Saint
1925
as Fidele Tridon
Enticement
1925
as Leonore Bewlay
To the Ladies
1924
as Undetermined Secondary Role
The Price of a Party
1924
as Alice Barrows
Beau Brummel
1924
as Lady Margery Alvanley
The Fighting Coward
1924
as Lucy
The Fighting American
1924
as Mary Brainard
Inez from Hollywood
1924
as Fay Bartholdi
Unguarded Women
1924
as Helen Castle
Hollywood
1923
as Mary Astor
Puritan Passions
1923
as Rachel
The Bright Shawl
1923
as Narcissa Escobar
Second Fiddle
1923
as Polly Crawford
The Marriage Maker
1923
as Vivian Hope-Clarke
Success
1923
as Rose Randolph
Woman-Proof
1923
as Violet Lynwood
The Young Painter
1922
as Helen Seymour
Hope
1922
as Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
John Smith
1922
as Irene Mason
The Man Who Played God
1922
as Young Woman
The Angelus
1922
as Bit Part
The Rapids
1922
as Elsie Worden
Brother of the Bear
1921
as Marcia Harthorn
Bullets or Ballots
1921
as Bit Part
My Lady o' the Pines
1921
as Norah Collison
Wings of the Border
1921
The Beggar Maid
1921
as Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
Sentimental Tommy
1921