Mary Astor
- Schauspiel
- 3. Mai 1906 · Quincy, Illinois, USA
- 25. September 1987
Biografie
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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Filmografie
- The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird · Selbst
- Bogart: The Untold Story · Selbst
- Hollywood - Geschichten aus der Stummfilmzeit · Selbst
- Das gibt’s nie wieder II · (archive footage)
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli · Selbst
- Wiegenlied für eine Leiche · Jewel Mayhew
- Ein Mann kam nach New York · Irene Perry
- Burkes Gesetz · Florence Roberts
- Ben Casey
- Dr. Kildare · Martha Lantzinge, Aunt Frances
- Preston & Preston · Flora Goode
- Rückkehr nach Peyton Place · Roberta Carter
- Checkmate · Esther Brack
- Thriller · Rose French
- Journey to the Day · Helen May Whitfield
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Mrs. Leslie
- Ein Fremder in meinen Armen · Virgilnie Beasley
- Tausend Meilen Staub · Emma Cardwell
- Männer über Vierzig · Mrs. Tremaine
- The Littlest Enemy · Mrs. Wickens
- The Troublemakers · Mattie Gerrity
- Die Teufelskurve · Mrs. Jargin
- The Ninth Day · Virginia Jackson
- Abenteuer im wilden Westen · Sarah Simmons
- Die Macht und ihr Preis · Mrs. George Salt
- Ein Kuß vor dem Tode · Mrs. Corliss
- Playwrights '56
- Alfred Hitchcock präsentiert · Mrs. Fenimore, Grace Dolan
- The Thief · Isabelle Lagarde
- Producers' Showcase · Nancy Blake
- Climax! · Mrs. Harriss, Ethel Allen
- Yesterday and Today · (archive footage)
- The United States Steel Hour · Isabelle Lagarde
- General Electric Theater · Bea Hicks
- Lux Video Theatre · Margaret Eliot, Mildred Le Brun
- Robert Montgomery Presents · Norma Desmond
- Hoher Einsatz · Ada
- Kleine tapfere Jo · Marmee
- Akt der Gewalt · Pat
- Studio One · Ruth Sparling, Harriet Brand
- The Philco Television Playhouse
- Fesseln der Liebe · Queenie Havock
- Cynthia · Louise Bishop
- Desert Fury – Liebe gewinnt · Fritzi Haller
- Mexikanische Nächte · Señora Morales
- Okay for Sound · Adriana (archive footage)
- Claudia and David · Elizabeth Van Doren
- Blonde Fever · Delilah Donay
- Heimweh nach St. Louis · Anna Smith
- Thousands Cheer · Hyllary Jones
- Young Ideas · Josephine Evans
- Abenteuer in Panama · Alberta Marlow
- Atemlos nach Florida · The Princess Centimillia
- Breakdowns of 1941 · Selbst
- Die Spur des Falken · Brigid O'Shaughnessy
- Vertauschtes Glück · Sandra Kovak
- Treck nach Utah · Mary Ann Young
- Turnabout · Marion Manning
- Enthüllung um Mitternacht · Helene Flammarion
- Listen, Darling · Dottie Wingate
- Woman Against Woman · Cynthia Holland
- Drei Männer im Paradies · Mrs. Irene Mallebre
- There's Always a Woman · Lola Fraser
- No Time to Marry · Kay McGowan
- … dann kam der Orkan · Mme. DeLaage
- Der Gefangene von Zenda · Antoinette de Mauban
- Lady from Nowhere · Polly Dunlap
- Zeit der Liebe, Zeit des Abschieds · Edith Cortright
- Trapped by Television · Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
- And So They Were Married · Edith Farnham
- The Murder of Dr. Harrigan · Lillian Cooper
- Man of Iron · Vida
- Page Miss Glory · Gladys
- Dinky · Martha Daniels
- Straight from the Heart · Marian Henshaw
- Red Hot Tires · Patricia Sanford
- I Am a Thief · Odette Mauclair
- The Hollywood Gad-About · Selbst
- The Case of the Howling Dog · Bessie Foley
- The Man with Two Faces · Jessica Wells