Mary Astor
Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke, better known professionally as Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987), was an American actress. Although her career spanned several decades, she may be best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in ''The Maltese Falcon'' (1941).Astor began her long motion picture career when a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. When talkies arrived, her voice was initially considered too masculine and she was off the screen for a year. After she appeared in a play with friend Florence Eldridge, film offers returned, and she resumed her career in sound pictures.
In 1936, Astor's career was nearly destroyed by scandal. She had an affair with playwright George S. Kaufman and was branded an adulterous wife by her former husband during a custody fight over their daughter. Overcoming these stumbling blocks in her private life, she went on to greater film success, eventually winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of concert pianist Sandra Kovak in ''The Great Lie'' (1941).
Astor was a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player through most of the 1940s and continued to work in film, television and on stage until her retirement in 1964. She authored five novels. Her autobiography was a bestseller, as was her later book, ''A Life on Film'', which was about her career.
Director Lindsay Anderson wrote of Astor in 1990 that when "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." Provided by Wikipedia
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A life on film / With an introd. by Sumner Locke Elliott. by Astor, Mary, 1906-1987
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Red dust / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Victor Fleming production ; screenplay by John Mahin ; directed by Victor Fleming.
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The little giant / Warner Bros. Pictures presents a First National & Vitaphone picture ; original screenplay by Robert Lord & Wilson Mizner ; directed by Roy Del Ruth.
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Behind office doors / RKO Pictures ; produced by William LeBaron.
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Dodsworth / produced by Samuel Goldwyn ; screen play by Sidney Howard ; directed by William Wyler.
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A kiss before dying / Crown Productions ; produced by Robert L. Jacks ; screenplay by Lawrence Roman ; directed by Gerd Oswald.
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The great lie Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; screenplay by Lenore Coffee ; directed by Edmund Goulding.
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Act of violence ; Mystery street.
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The Maltese falcon / a Warner Bros.-First National Picture ; screen play by John Huston ; directed by John Huston. by Deutsch, Adolph, 1897-1980
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Return to Peyton Place / Twentieth Century Fox presents a Cinemascope Picture ; Jerry Wald's production ; screenplay by Ronald Alexander ; directed by José Ferrer.
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The Palm Beach story / a Paramount Picture ; associate producer, Paul Jones ; written and directed by Preston Sturges ; producer, Buddy G. DeSylva.
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Midnight a Paramount picture ; screen play by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder ; produced by Arthur Hornblow, Jr. ; directed by Mitchell Leisen.
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The Maltese falcon / First National Pictures Inc. ; Warner Bros. Pictures ; screenplay, John Huston ; directed by John Huston.
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Meet me in St. Louis Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; screen play by Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe ; produced by Arthur Freed ; directed by Vincente Minnelli. by Martin, Hugh, 1914-2011
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Prisoner of Zenda / [1937 version] : Selznick International presents ; screenplay by John L. Balderston ; adaptation by Wells Root ; additional dialogue by Donald Ogden Stewart ; directed by John Cromwell ; produced by David O. Selznick. [1952 version]: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; screen play by John L. Balderston and Noel Langley ; adaptation by Wells Root ; directed by Richard Thorpe ; produced by Pandro S. Berman.
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Thousands cheer a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture ; produced by Joseph Pasternak ; original screenplay by Paul Jarrico and Richard Collins ; directed by George Sidney. by Stothart, Herbert, 1885-1949
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Forbidden Hollywood collection. Turner Entertainment Co. ; TCM Archives.
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