Mary Astor

Also known as Lucile Langhanke, Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke, Astor, Mary Del Campo, Mary Hawks, Mary Thorpe, Mary Wheelock

American actress and author (1906–1987)

OverviewAI-generated

Mary Astor was an American novelist and actor who worked in stage, film, and television. Born in Quincy, Illinois, in 1906, she began her professional career in 1921. Her acting career included employment with Warner Bros. Entertainment. Astor received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Astor was a practicing Catholic and had two children. She was married to Kenneth Hawks. Her written works include *The Incredible Charlie Carewe*, *A life on film*, *My Story an Autobiography*, and *A place called Saturday*. She died in Woodland Hills in 1987 due to cardiovascular disease and was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1906
Died: 1987
Works: 15

Top works

The Incredible Charlie Carewe (Dell Paperback Series, No. 4040)
A life on film
My Story an Autobiography
A place called Saturday
My story

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · Quincy, Illinois, USA

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…

Known for

The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird — Self (archive footage)2006
Bogart: The Untold Story — Self (archive footage)1997
Hollywood — Self1980
That's Entertainment, Part II — (archive footage)1976
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli — Self (archive footage)1973
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte — Jewel Mayhew1964
Youngblood Hawke — Irene Perry1964
Burke's Law — Florence Roberts1963
Return to Peyton Place — Roberta Carter1961
Ben Casey1961

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: AR
Active from: 1921-03-11
Active to: 1992-07-04

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 10
Total plays: 18

via Last.fm · Mary Astor

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,789x
Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,845x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,760x
Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
· 1998 · cited 15,180x
Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans
· 1998 · cited 12,383x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

“That guy over there, Ray Massey. He can put his boots under my bed any day of the week.”
“Acting was my parents' idea for me. I happened to have a very pretty face. It was a very pretty face indeed, and it was sold to the highest bidder, that's all. I wanted to be a writer. I didn't know that until about 15 years ago, and I've been writing ever since. And that's about all I want to do.”
“I think "laconic" is a good word for and for his technique of direction. No big deal about communication with John. Terse, pithy, to the point. Very Irish, a dark personality, a sensitivity which he did everything to conceal, but once he said to me while I was doing a scene with Ray Massey, "Make it scan, Mary." And I said to myself, "Aha! I know you now!".”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

~26 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke; 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 her friend Florence Eldridge, film offers returned, and she resumed her career in sound pictures.

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