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Mary Astor was an American actress. She may be best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of concert pianist Sandra Kovak in The Great Lie (1941).
Birth Name
Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke
Born
Thursday, 03 May 1906
Died
Friday, 25 September 1987
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Rules of Film Noir | Brigid O'Shaughnessy | 2009 |
| Bogart: The Untold Story | 1997 | |
| American Cinema | Brigid O'Shaughnessy | 1995 |
| Stay Tuned | Brigid O'Shaughnessy on TV | 1992 |
| Northern Exposure | Brigid O'Shaughnessy | 1990 |
| Hollywood | Self - Interviewee | 1980 |
| That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) / Dottie Wingate | 1976 |
| Tomorrow Coast to Coast | Self | 1973 |
| Hollywood My Home Town | Herself / Self | 1965 |
| Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Jewel Mayhew / Jewel | 1965 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Rules of Film Noir | Brigid O'Shaughnessy | 2009 |
| Bogart: The Untold Story | 1997 | |
| American Cinema | Brigid O'Shaughnessy | 1995 |
| Stay Tuned | Brigid O'Shaughnessy on TV | 1992 |
| Northern Exposure | Brigid O'Shaughnessy | 1990 |
| Hollywood | Self - Interviewee | 1980 |
| That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) / Dottie Wingate | 1976 |
| Tomorrow Coast to Coast | Self | 1973 |
| Hollywood My Home Town | Herself / Self | 1965 |
| Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Jewel Mayhew / Jewel | 1965 |
| Youngblood Hawke | Irene Perry | 1964 |
| Hollywood and the Stars | Brigid O'Shaughnessey | 1963 |
| Burke's Law | Florence Roberts | 1963 |
| Hollywood Without Make-Up | Self / Herself | 1963 |
| Ben Casey | Dame Clorissa Rose Genet | 1961 |
| Dr. Kildare | Aunt Frances / Martha Lantzinge | 1961 |
| The Defenders | Flora Goode | 1961 |
| Return to Peyton Place | Mrs. Roberta Carter | 1961 |
| Hollywood: The Golden Years | Adriana della Varnese | 1961 |
| Checkmate | Esther Brack | 1960 |
| Thriller | Rose French | 1960 |
| Buick-Electra Playhouse | Mrs. Lester | 1959 |
| A Stranger in My Arms | Mrs. Virgilnie Beasley / Virgilnie Beasley | 1959 |
| Rawhide | Emma Cardwell | 1959 |
| Frontier Justice | Sarah Simmons | 1958 |
| This Happy Feeling | Mrs. Tremaine | 1958 |
| The Twentieth Century | Adriana della Varnese | 1957 |
| The Devil's Hairpin | Mrs. Jargin | 1957 |
| Zane Grey Theatre | Sarah Simmons | 1956 |
| Playhouse 90 | Eileen Bavister / Helen May Whitfield / Mattie Gerrity / Sylvia / Virginia Jackson | 1956 |
| The Power and the Prize | Mrs. George Salt | 1956 |
| A Kiss Before Dying | Mrs. Corliss | 1956 |
| Playwrights '56 | Georgina | 1955 |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Grace Dolan / Mrs. Fenimore | 1955 |
| Star Stage | Nurse | 1955 |
| Producers' Showcase | Nancy Blake | 1954 |
| Climax! | Mrs. Harriss / Martha / Ethel Allen / Clarissa Bowman | 1954 |
| The Elgin Hour | Madge Draper | 1954 |
| Studio 57 | Julia Kean | 1954 |
| The Best of Broadway | Margaret Lord | 1954 |
| Yesterday and Today | (archive footage) | 1953 |
| The United States Steel Hour | Lydia Chalmers / Isabelle Lagarde / Mrs. Wickens | 1953 |
| Person to Person | Self | 1953 |
| General Electric Theater | Bea Hicks | 1953 |
| Lux Video Theatre | Mildred Le Brun / Margaret Eliot | 1950 |
| Robert Montgomery Presents | Norma Desmond | 1950 |
| Any Number Can Play | Ada | 1949 |
| Little Women | Marmee | 1949 |
| Act of Violence | Pat | 1948 |
| Studio One | Ruth Sparling / Harriet Brand | 1948 |
| The Philco Television Playhouse | 1948 | |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | Self | 1948 |
| Cass Timberlane | Queenie Havock | 1947 |
| Cynthia | Louise Bishop | 1947 |
| Desert Fury | Fritzi Haller | 1947 |
| Fiesta | Señora Morales | 1947 |
| Kraft Theatre | Aunt Polly | 1947 |
| Claudia and David | Elizabeth Van Doren | 1946 |
| Front Row Center | Millicent Jordan | 1945 |
| Blonde Fever | Delilah Donay | 1944 |
| Meet Me in St. Louis | Mrs. Anna Smith | 1944 |
| Young Ideas | Jo Evans / Josephine Evans | 1943 |
| Thousands Cheer | Hyllary Jones | 1943 |
| Across the Pacific | Alberta Marlow | 1942 |
| The Palm Beach Story | The Princess Centimillia | 1942 |
| Breakdowns of 1941 | Self | 1941 |
| The Maltese Falcon | Brigid O'Shaughnessy | 1941 |
| The Great Lie | Sandra Kovak / Sandra | 1941 |
| Brigham Young | Mary Ann Young | 1940 |
| Turnabout | Marion Manning | 1940 |
| Midnight | Helene Flammarion | 1939 |
| Listen, Darling | Dottie Wingate | 1938 |
| Woman Against Woman | Cynthia Holland | 1938 |
| There's Always a Woman | Lola Fraser | 1938 |
| Paradise for Three | Mrs. Irene Mallebre | 1938 |
| No Time to Marry | Kay McGowan | 1938 |
| The Hurricane | Mme. DeLaage / Madame Germaine De Laage | 1937 |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Antoinette de Mauban | 1937 |
| Lady from Nowhere | Polly Dunlap | 1936 |
| Dodsworth | Edith Cortright | 1936 |
| Trapped by Television | Barbara 'Bobby' Blake | 1936 |
| And So They Were Married | Edith Farnham | 1936 |
| The Murder of Dr. Harrigan | Lillian Cooper | 1936 |
| Man of Iron | Vida | 1935 |
| Page Miss Glory | Gladys Russell / Betty | 1935 |
| Dinky | Mrs. Martha Daniels / Martha Daniels | 1935 |
| Red Hot Tires | Patricia Sanford | 1935 |
| I Am a Thief | Odette Mauclair | 1934 |
| The Hollywood Gad-About | Self (Queen of the Frolic) / Herself | 1934 |
| The Case of the Howling Dog | Bessie Foley | 1934 |
| The Man with Two Faces | Jessica Wells | 1934 |
| Return of the Terror | Olga Morgan | 1934 |
| Upperworld | Hettie Stream | 1934 |
| Easy to Love | Charlotte | 1934 |
| Convention City | Arlene Dale | 1933 |
| The World Changes | Virginia 'Ginny' Clafflin Nordholm / Virginia Claffin Nordholm | 1933 |
| The Kennel Murder Case | Hilda Lake | 1933 |
| Jennie Gerhardt | Letty Pace | 1933 |
| The Little Giant | Ruth Wayburn | 1933 |
| Red Dust | Barbara Willis | 1932 |
| Those We Love | May Ballard | 1932 |
| A Successful Calamity | Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton | 1932 |
| The Lost Squadron | Follette Marsh | 1932 |
| Men of Chance | Marthe | 1932 |
| Smart Woman | Mrs. Nancy Gibson / Nancy Gibson | 1931 |
| White Shoulders | Norma Selbee | 1931 |
| The Sin Ship | Frisco Kitty | 1931 |
| Behind Office Doors | Mary Linden | 1931 |
| Other Men's Women | 1931 | |
| The Royal Bed | Princess Anne | 1931 |
| The Lash | Dona Rosita Garcia | 1930 |
| Holiday | Julia Seton | 1930 |
| Ladies Love Brutes | Mimi Howell | 1930 |
| Runaway Bride | Mary Gray - aka Sally Fairchild / Mary Gray | 1930 |
| Show of Shows | Performer in 'The Pirate' Number | 1929 |
| The Woman from Hell | Dee Renaud | 1929 |
| Romance of the Underworld | Judith Andrews | 1928 |
| Dry Martini | Elizabeth Quimby | 1928 |
| Heart to Heart | Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie | 1928 |
| 3-Ring Marriage | Anna | 1928 |
| Dressed to Kill | Jeanne / Jean MacDonald | 1928 |
| Sailors' Wives | Carol Trent | 1928 |
| The Rough Riders | Dolly | 1927 |
| Rose of the Golden West | Elena | 1927 |
| Two Arabian Knights | Mirza | 1927 |
| The Sunset Derby | Molly Gibson | 1927 |
| The Sea Tiger | Amy Cortissos | 1927 |
| Forever After | Jennie Clayton | 1926 |
| Don Juan | Adriana della Varnese | 1926 |
| High Steppers | Audrey Nye | 1926 |
| Scarlet Saint | Fidele Tridon | 1925 |
| Don Q Son of Zorro | Dolores de Muro | 1925 |
| Enticement | Leonore Bewlay | 1925 |
| Oh, Doctor! | Dolores Hicks | 1925 |
| The Price of a Party | Alice Barrows | 1924 |
| Beau Brummel | Lady Margery Alvanley | 1924 |
| To the Ladies | Undetermined Secondary Role | 1923 |
| Woman-Proof | Violet Lynwood | 1923 |
| Puritan Passions | Rachel | 1923 |
| Hollywood | Mary Astor | 1923 |
| The Bright Shawl | Narcissa Escobar | 1923 |
| Second Fiddle | Polly Crawford | 1923 |
| The Rapids | Elsie Worden | 1922 |
| John Smith | Irene Mason | 1922 |
| The Beggar Maid | Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid | 1921 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1942 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Won |
