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Mary Astor

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Nascita
3 maggio 1906 · Quincy, Illinois, USA
Morte
25 settembre 1987

Biografia

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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Il mistero del falco
Film · 1941 · ★ 7,7
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Incontriamoci a Saint Louis
Film · 1944 · ★ 7,0
Locandina di Piano... piano dolce Carlotta
Piano... piano dolce Carlotta
Film · 1964 · ★ 7,3
Locandina di Alfred Hitchcock presenta
Alfred Hitchcock presenta
Serie · 1955 · ★ 7,8
Locandina di Piccole donne
Piccole donne
Film · 1949 · ★ 7,4
Locandina di Ritrovarsi
Ritrovarsi
Film · 1942 · ★ 7,0
Locandina di Infedeltà
Infedeltà
Film · 1936 · ★ 7,1
Locandina di Atto di violenza
Atto di violenza
Film · 1949 · ★ 6,9
Locandina di La signora di mezzanotte
La signora di mezzanotte
Film · 1939 · ★ 7,4
Locandina di Agguato ai tropici
Agguato ai tropici
Film · 1942 · ★ 6,6
Locandina di Lo schiaffo
Lo schiaffo
Film · 1932 · ★ 6,9
Locandina di Giovani senza domani
Giovani senza domani
Film · 1956 · ★ 6,3

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