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Mary Astor
Mary Astor 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).
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entertainment · American actress (1906–1987) · novelist · stage actor · film actor · television actor · writer · actor · also Mary Astor, Lucile Langhanke, Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke, Astor, Mary Del Campo, Mary Hawks
Born 3 May 1906 · Died 25 September 1987 · Q232109
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2026· 4 entries
Public attention spiked: 3,861 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.8× the usual 566, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 3,795 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.7× the usual 566, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 3,999 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.1× the usual 566, with 0 article edits.
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1990· 1 entry
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 s
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1987· 2 entries
At age 81, of respiratory failure due to pulmonary emphysema while in the hospital at the Motion Picture House complex
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Died 1987-09-25.
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1967· 1 entry
A second book was published, A Life on Film, where she discussed her career
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1964· 2 entries
Astor was lured away from her Malibu, California home, where she was gardening and working on her third novel, to make what she decided would be her final film
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In a German translation as Jahre und Tage, The O'Conners (1964), Goodbye, Darling, be Happy (1965), and A Place Called Saturday (1968)
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1960).
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1959· 1 entry
Becoming a sensation in its day and a bestseller
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1954· 1 entry
Appeared in the episode "Fearful Hour" of the Gary Merrill NBC series Justice in the role of a desperately poor and aging film star who attempts suicide to avoid exposure as a thief
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1952· 2 entries
Was cast in the leading role of the play The Time of the Cuckoo, which was later made into the movie Summertime (1955), and subsequently toured with it
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By court order, Astor's diary was removed from the bank vault where it had been sequestered for 16 years, and was destroyed
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1951· 1 entry
Made a frantic call to her priest and said that she had taken too many sleeping pills
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1949· 1 entry
And went into a sanitarium for alcoholics
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1942· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Great Lie (1942).
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1937· 1 entry
Astor returned to the stage in well-received productions of Noël Coward's Tonight at 8
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1936· 1 entry
Astor's career was nearly destroyed by scandal
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1930· 1 entry
While filming sequences for the Fox movie Such Men Are Dangerous, Kenneth Hawks was killed in a mid-air plane crash over the Pacific
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1928· 1 entry
Married director Kenneth Hawks at her family home, Moorcrest
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1926· 1 entry
Along with Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Joan Crawford, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor, and Fay Wray
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1925· 1 entry
Astor's parents bought a Moorish style mansion with 1 acre (4,000 m2) of land known as "Moorcrest" in the hills above Hollywood
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1919· 1 entry
Astor sent a photograph of herself to a beauty contest in Motion Picture Magazine, becoming a semifinalist
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1906· 1 entry
Born 1906-05-03.
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