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Mary Astor
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, Asto…
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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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2006
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1997
Bogart: The Untold Story
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1980
Hollywood
TV show Self
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1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie (archive footage)
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1973
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1964
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Movie Jewel Mayhew
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1964
Youngblood Hawke
Movie Irene Perry
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1963
Burke's Law
TV show Florence Roberts
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1961
Ben Casey
TV show
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1961
Dr. Kildare
TV show Martha Lantzinge
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1961
The Defenders
TV show Flora Goode
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1961
Return to Peyton Place
Movie Roberta Carter
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1960
Checkmate
TV show Esther Brack
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1960
Thriller
TV show Rose French
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1960
Journey to the Day
Movie Helen May Whitfield
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1960
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Movie Mrs. Leslie
More credits
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1959
A Stranger in My Arms
Movie Virgilnie Beasley
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1959
Rawhide
TV show Emma Cardwell
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1958
This Happy Feeling
Movie Mrs. Tremaine
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1958
The Littlest Enemy
Movie Mrs. Wickens
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1957
The Troublemakers
Movie Mattie Gerrity
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1957
The Devil's Hairpin
Movie Mrs. Jargin
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1957
The Ninth Day
Movie
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1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV show Sarah Simmons
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1956
The Power and the Prize
Movie Mrs. George Salt
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1956
A Kiss Before Dying
Movie Mrs. Corliss
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1955
Playwrights '56
TV show
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1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV show Mrs. Fenimore
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1955
The Thief
Movie Isabelle Lagarde
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1954
Producers' Showcase
TV show Nancy Blake
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1954
Climax!
TV show Mrs. Harriss
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1953
Yesterday and Today
Movie (archive footage)
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1953
The United States Steel Hour
TV show Isabelle Lagarde
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1953
General Electric Theater
TV show Bea Hicks
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1950
Lux Video Theatre
TV show Margaret Eliot
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1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV show Norma Desmond
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1949
Any Number Can Play
Movie Ada
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1949
Little Women
Movie Marmee
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1949
Act of Violence
Movie Pat
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1948
Studio One
TV show Ruth Sparling
