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Mary Astor

Mary Astor

Highest Rated: 100% Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

Lowest Rated: 14% Any Number Can Play (1949)

Birthday: May 3, 1906

Birthplace: Quincy, Illinois, USA

Groomed from childhood to be a star, Mary Astor fulfilled that dream and proved to be an exceptional performer. Beauty contest exposure and an exceptionally camera-friendly face earned her an invitation to Hollywood and Astor gradually moved from supporting assignments to leads in such major silent films as "Beau Brummel" (1924), "Don Q Son of Zorro" (1925), and "Don Juan" (1926). She easily made the jump to sound pictures and displayed her versatility in everything from the sizzling "Red Dust" (1932) to the elegant "Dodsworth" (1936) to the screwball classic "Midnight" (1939). However, she was truly indelible as the deceitful heroine of "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) and gave an Oscar-winning barnstormer of a performance in "The Great Lie" (1941) that managed to overshadow the rarely dwarfed Bette Davis. Thanks to the enduring love for "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), it would almost certainly be Astor's best remembered credit, but her considerable dramatic and comedic abilities were on full view during virtually all phases of a commendable career that spanned four decades.

Highest rated movies

100% A Kiss Before Dying
100% Meet Me in St. Louis
100% The Prisoner of Zenda
100% The Kennel Murder Case
100% The Lost Squadron
100% Don Juan
99% The Maltese Falcon
97% The Palm Beach Story

Photos

ACROSS THE PACIFIC, Mary Astor, 1944 THE CASE OF THE HOWLING DOG, Mary Astor, 1934 DON Q SON OF ZORRO, from left: Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Mary Astor, 1925 DON Q SON OF ZORRO, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Mary Astor, 1925 THE GREAT LIE, Mary Astor, 1941 HOLIDAY, Mary Astor, Ann Harding, 1930 HOLIDAY, Ann Harding, Mary Astor, 1930 HUSH... HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE, Olivia de Havilland, Mary Astor, Bill Walker, 1964, TM and Copyright © 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. THE KENNEL MURDER CASE, Mary Astor, 1933 TURNABOUT, from left, Mary Astor, Adolphe Menjou, 1940 DON Q SON OF ZORRO, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Mary Astor, 1925 MALTESE FALCON, Mary Astor, Humphrey Bogart, 1941 MALTESE FALCON, Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, 1941 YOUNG IDEAS, from left: Herbert Marshall, Mary Astor, 1943 YOUNG IDEAS, from left: Mary Astor, Herbert Marshall, 1943 THE MURDER OF DR. HARRIGAN, Mary Astor, 1935 AND SO THEY WERE MARRIED, Mary Astor, Melvyn Douglas, 1936 LITTLE WOMEN, Janet Leigh, Margaret O'Brien, June Allyson, Mary Astor, Elizabeth Taylor, 1949 THE MALTESE FALCON, Mary Astor, Humphrey Bogart, 1941 WOMAN AGAINST WOMAN, Herbert Marshall, Mary Astor, 1938
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
82% 85% Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte Jewel Mayhew (Character) - 1965
No Score Yet 83% Youngblood Hawke Irene Perry (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet 32% Return to Peyton Place Mrs. Roberta Carter (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Stranger in My Arms Mrs. Virgilnie Beasley (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet 50% This Happy Feeling Mrs. Tremaine (Character) - 1958
No Score Yet 50% The Power and the Prize Mrs. George Salt (Character) - 1956
100% 47% A Kiss Before Dying Mrs. Corliss (Character) - 1956
14% 67% Any Number Can Play Ada (Character) - 1949
75% 83% Little Women Marmee (Character) - 1949
94% 76% Act of Violence Pat (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet 57% Cass Timberlane Queenie Havock (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet 44% Fiesta Señora Morales (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet 41% Cynthia Louise Bishop (Character) - 1947
67% 59% Desert Fury Fritzi Haller (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet Claudia and David Elizabeth Van Doren (Character) - 1946
100% 87% Meet Me in St. Louis Mrs. Anna Smith (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet 33% Blonde Fever Delilah Donay (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet No Score Yet Young Ideas Jo Evans (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 56% Thousands Cheer Hyllary Jones (Character) - 1943
97% 81% The Palm Beach Story The Princess Centimillia (Character) - 1942
80% 60% Across the Pacific Alberta Marlow (Character) - 1942
99% 91% The Maltese Falcon Brigid O'Shaughnessy (Character) - 1941
60% 71% The Great Lie Sandra Kovak (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 47% Brigham Young Mary Ann Young (Character) - 1940
20% 23% Turnabout Marion Manning (Character) - 1940
93% 88% Midnight Helene Flammarion (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet 63% Listen, Darling Dottie Wingate (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet 42% There's Always a Woman Lola Fraser (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Paradise for Three Mrs. Irene Mallebre (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet 20% There's That Woman Again Unknown (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet No Time to Marry Kay (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Woman Against Woman Cynthia Holland (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet 68% The Hurricane Mme. DeLaage (Character) - 1937
100% 80% The Prisoner of Zenda Antoinette de Mauban (Character) - 1937
91% 86% Dodsworth Mrs. Edith Cortright (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet 29% And So They Were Married Edith Farnham (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet 36% Trapped by Television Barbara "Bobby" Blake (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Murder of Dr. Harrigan Lillian Cooper (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Man of Iron Vida (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet I Am a Thief Odette (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dinky Mrs. Martha Daniels (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Red Hot Tires Patricia Sanford (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 33% Page Miss Glory Gladys Russell (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 33% The Man With Two Faces Jessica Wells (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet 30% Upperworld Mrs. Hettie Stream (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet 50% The Case of the Howling Dog Bessie Foley (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Easy to Love Charlotte (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet 72% The Little Giant Ruth Wayburn (Character) - 1933
100% 66% The Kennel Murder Case Hilda Lake (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jennie Gerhardt Letty Pace (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet 20% The World Changes Virginia "Ginny" Clafflin Nordholm (Character) - 1933
86% No Score Yet Convention City Unknown (Character) - 1933
90% 80% Red Dust Barbara Willis (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet 44% Those We Love May Ballard (Character) - 1932
100% 46% The Lost Squadron Follette Marsh (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet Men of Chance Marthe Preston Silk (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Successful Calamity Emmy "Sweetie" Wilton (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet 46% Other Men's Women Lily Kulper (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Royal Bed Princess Anne (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet 33% Behind Office Doors Mary Linden (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet Smart Woman Nancy Gibson (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sin Ship Frisco Kitty (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ladies Love Brutes Mimi Howell (Character) - 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lash Dona Rosita Garcia (Character) - 1930
No Score Yet 91% Holiday Julia Seton (Character) - 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet Runaway Bride Mary Gray, AKA Sally Fairchild (Character) - 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet Romance of the Underworld Unknown (Character) - 1928
No Score Yet 62% Two Arabian Knights Mirza (Character) - 1927
100% 60% Don Juan Adriana della Varnese (Character) - 1926
No Score Yet No Score Yet Forever After Jennie Clayton (Character) - 1926
No Score Yet 69% Don Q, Son of Zorro Dolores de Muro (Character) - 1925
No Score Yet No Score Yet Oh, Doctor! Dolores Hicks (Character) - 1925
No Score Yet 38% Beau Brummel Lady Margery Alvanley (Character) - 1924
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fighting Coward Unknown (Character) - 1924
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Bright Shawl Unknown (Character) - 1923
No Score Yet No Score Yet Second Fiddle Polly Crawford (Character) - 1923
No Score Yet No Score Yet Woman-Proof Violet Lynwood (Character) - 1923

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ben Casey Dame Clorissa Rose Genet (Guest Star) 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dr. Kildare Unknown (Guest Star) 1962-1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rawhide Unknown (Guest Star) 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Thriller Unknown (Character) 1960
No Score Yet 85% Alfred Hitchcock Presents Grace Dolan (Character) 1958-1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Climax! Unknown (Character) 1955-1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Zane Grey Theatre Unknown (Character) 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet The United States Steel Hour Isabelle Lagarde (Character) 1955