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Mary Astor (1906–1987)

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Her German immigrant father pushed her into a beauty contest at 14 and her first movie Sentimental Tommy at 15. After a number of minor parts she starred in John Barrymore's Beau Brummel. She had a lively affair with Barrymore, over with before she starred a second time with him, in Don Juan... See full bio »

Born:

Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke
in Quincy, Illinois, USA

Died:

(age 81) in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Still of Mary Astor and Grant Withers in Other Men's Women Still of Mary Astor and C. Aubrey Smith in The Hurricane Still of Mary Astor and Robert Wagner in A Kiss Before Dying Still of Mary Astor and Walter Huston in Dodsworth
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1964 Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Jewel
 
1964 Youngblood Hawke
Irene Perry
 
1963 Ben Casey (TV series)
Dame Clorissa Rose Genet
– Dispel the Black Cyclone That Shakes the Throne (1963) … Dame Clorissa Rose Genet
 
1963 Burke's Law (TV series)
Florence Roberts
– Who Killed Cable Roberts? (1963) … Florence Roberts
 
1962-1963 Dr. Kildare (TV series)
Aunt Frances / Martha Lantzinge
– Face of Fear (1963) … Aunt Frances
– Operation: Lazarus (1962) … Martha Lantzinge
 
1963 The Defenders (TV series)
Flora Goode
– Poltergeist (1963) … Flora Goode
 
1962 Checkmate (TV series)
Esther Brack
– Brooding Fixation (1962) … Esther Brack
 
1961 Return to Peyton Place
Mrs. Roberta Carter
 
1961 Rawhide (TV series)
Emma Cardwell
– Incident Near the Promised Land (1961) … Emma Cardwell
 
1960 Thriller (TV series)
Mrs. Horace Goodfield / Rose French
– Rose's Last Summer (1960) … Rose French/Mrs. Horace Goodfield (as Helen Quintal for the Mrs. Goodfield role)
 
1957-1960 Playhouse 90 (TV series)
Eileen Bavister / Helen May Whitfield / Mattie / …
– Journey to the Day (1960) … Helen May Whitfield
– Diary of a Nurse (1959) … Eileen Bavister
– The Return of Ansel Gibbs (1958) … Sylvia
– The Troublemakers (1957) … Mattie
– The Ninth Day (1957) … Virginia Jackson
 
1960 Buick-Electra Playhouse (TV series)
– The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1960)
 
1960 The Snows of Kilimanjaro (TV movie)
 
1955-1960 The United States Steel Hour (TV series)
Lydia Chalmers / Isabelle Lagarde / Mrs. Wickens
– Revolt in Hadley (1960) … Lydia Chalmers
– The Women of Hadley (1960) … Lydia Chalmers
– The Littlest Enemy (1958) … Mrs. Wickens
– The Thief (1955) … Isabelle Lagarde
 
1959 The Philadelphia Story (TV movie)
Margaret Lord
 
1959 G.E. True Theater (TV series)
Bea Hicks
– The Last Dance (1959) … Bea Hicks
 
1958-1959 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series)
Grace Dolan / Mrs. Fenimore
– The Impossible Dream (1959) … Grace Dolan
– Mrs. Herman and Mrs. Fenimore (1958) … Mrs. Fenimore
 
1959 A Stranger in My Arms
Mrs. Virgilnie Beasley
 
1958 This Happy Feeling
Mrs. Tremaine
 
1954-1958 Studio One in Hollywood (TV series)
Harriet Brand / Ruth Sparling
– The Lonely Stage (1958) … Harriet Brand
– Jack Sperling, Forty-six (1954) … Ruth Sparling
 
1958 U.S. Marshal (TV series)
Amy
– My Sons … Amy
 
1957 The Devil's Hairpin
Mrs. Jargin
 
1955-1957 Climax! (TV series)
Clarissa Bowman / Ethel Allen / Martha / …
– The High Jungle (1957) … Clarissa Bowman
– Phone Call for Matthew Quade (1956) … Martha
– Nightmare by Day (1956) … Ethel Allen
– Wild Stallion (1955) … Mrs. Harriss
 
1956-1957 Lux Video Theatre (TV series)
Mildred Le Brun
– The Man Who Played God (1957) … Mildred Le Brun
– The Star (1956)
 
1957 Zane Grey Theater (TV series)
Sarah Simmons
– Black Is for Grief (1957) … Sarah Simmons
 
1956 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV series)
Norma Desmond
– Sunset Boulevard (1956) … Norma Desmond
 
1956 The Power and the Prize
Mrs. George Salt
 
1956 A Kiss Before Dying
Mrs. Corliss
 
1956 Playwrights '56 (TV series)
Georgina
– You and Me and the Gatepost (1956) … Georgina
 
1956 Star Stage (TV series)
Nurse
– I Am Her Nurse (1956) … Nurse
 
1956 Studio 57 (TV series)
Julia Kean
– A Farewell Appearance (1956) … Julia Kean
 
1955 Front Row Center (TV series)
Millicent Jordan
– Dinner at Eight (1955) … Millicent Jordan
 
1955 The Elgin Hour (TV series)
Madge Draper
– The $1,000 Window (1955) … Madge Draper
 
1955 Producers' Showcase (TV series)
Nancy Blake
– The Women (1955) … Nancy Blake
 
1955 Ponds Theater (TV series)
– The Hickory Limb (1955)
 
1954 The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse (TV series)
– Run, Girl, Run (1954)
 
1954 The Best of Broadway (TV series)
Margaret Lord
– The Philadelphia Story (1954) … Margaret Lord
 
1954 Danger (TV series)
– Circle of Doom (1954)
 
1954 Kraft Theatre (TV series)
– The Missing Years (1954)
 
1953 Yesterday and Today
 
1949 Any Number Can Play
Ada
 
1949 Little Women
Marmee
 
1948 Act of Violence
Pat
 
1947 Cass Timberlane
Queenie Havock
 
1947 Cynthia
Louise Bishop
 
1947 Desert Fury
Fritzi Haller
 
1947 Fiesta
Señora Morales
 
1946 Claudia and David
Elizabeth Van Doren
 
1944 Blonde Fever
Delilah Donay
 
1944 Meet Me in St. Louis
Mrs. Anna Smith
 
1943 Thousands Cheer
Hyllary Jones
 
1943 Young Ideas
Jo Evans
 
1942 The Palm Beach Story
The Princess Centimillia
 
1942 Across the Pacific
Alberta Marlow
 
1942 In This Our Life
Extra on Roadhouse Table (uncredited)
 
1941 The Maltese Falcon
Brigid O'Shaughnessy
 
1941 The Great Lie
Sandra Kovak
 
1940 Brigham Young
Mary Ann Young
 
1940 Turnabout
Marion Manning
 
1939 Midnight
Helene Flammarion
 
1938 Listen, Darling
Mrs. Dorothy '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
 
1937 The Hurricane
Mme. DeLaage
 
1937 The Prisoner of Zenda
Antoinette de Mauban
 
1936 Lady from Nowhere
Polly Dunlap
 
1936 Dodsworth
Mrs. 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
 
1935 Man of Iron
Vida
 
1935 Page Miss Glory
Gladys Russell
 
1935 Dinky
Mrs. Martha Daniels
 
1935 Straight from the Heart
Marian Henshaw
 
1935 Red Hot Tires
Patricia Sanford
 
1934 I Am a Thief
Odette Mauclair
 
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
Mrs. Hettie Stream
 
1934 Easy to Love
Charlotte Hopkins
 
1933 Convention City
Arlene Dale
 
1933 The World Changes
Virginia 'Ginny' Clafflin Nordholm
 
1933 The Kennel Murder Case
Hilda Lake
 
1933 Jennie Gerhardt
Letty Pace
 
1933 The Little Giant
Ruth Wayburn
 
1932 Red Dust
Barbara Willis
 
1932 A Successful Calamity
Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
 
1932 Those We Love
May Ballard
 
1932 The Lost Squadron
Follette Marsh
 
1931 Men of Chance
Marthe Preston Silk
 
1931 Smart Woman
Mrs. Nancy Gibson
 
1931 White Shoulders
Norma Selbee
 
1931 The Sin Ship
Frisco Kitty
 
1931 Behind Office Doors
Mary Linden
 
1931 Other Men's Women
Lily Kulper
 
1931 The Royal Bed
Princess Anne
 
1930 The Lash
Dona Rosita Garcia
 
1930 Holiday
Julia Seton
 
1930 Ladies Love Brutes
Mimi Howell
 
1930 The Runaway Bride
Mary Gray, AKA Sally Fairchild
 
1929 The Woman from Hell
Dee Renaud
 
1929 New Year's Eve
Marjorie Ware
 
1928 Romance of the Underworld
Judith Andrews
 
1928 Dry Martini
Elizabeth Quimby
 
1928 Heart to Heart
Princess Delatorre/Ellen Guthrie
 
1928 Three-Ring Marriage
Anna
 
1928 Dressed to Kill
Jeanne
 
1928 Sailors' Wives
Carol Trent
 
1927 No Place to Go
Sally Montgomery
 
1927 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
 
1926 Forever After
Jennie Clayton
 
1926 Don Juan
Adriana della Varnese
 
1926 The Wise Guy
Mary
 
1926 High Steppers
Audrey Nye
 
1925 Scarlet Saint
Fidele Tridon
 
1925 The Pace That Thrills
Doris
 
1925 Don Q Son of Zorro
Dolores de Muro
 
1925 Playing with Souls
Margo
 
1925 Enticement
Leonore Bewlay
 
1925 Oh, Doctor!
Dolores Hicks
 
1924 Inez from Hollywood
Fay Bartholdi
 
1924 The Price of a Party
Alice Barrows
 
1924 Unguarded Women
Helen Castle
 
1924 The Fighting American
Mary O'Mallory
 
1924 Beau Brummel
Lady Margery Alvanley
 
1924 The Fighting Coward
Lucy
 
1923 To the Ladies
Bit Part (uncredited)
 
1923 Woman-Proof
Violet Lynwood
 
1923 The Marriage Maker
Vivian Hope-Clarke
 
1923 Puritan Passions
Rachel
 
1923 The Bright Shawl
Narcissa Escobar
 
1923 Success
Rose Randolph
 
1923 Second Fiddle
Polly Crawford
 
1922 The Rapids
Elsie Worden (uncredited)
 
1922 The Man Who Played God
Young Woman
 
1922 Hope (short)
Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
 
1922 John Smith
Irene Mason
 
1922 The Young Painter (short)
Helen Seymour
 
1922 The Angelus
Bit Part (uncredited)
 
1921 Wings of the Border (short)
 
1921 The Beggar Maid (short)
Peasant Girl/Beggar Maid
 
1921 My Lady o' the Pines (short)
Norah Collison (uncredited)
 
1921 Sentimental Tommy (scenes deleted)
 
1921 Brother of the Bear (short)
Marcia Harthorn
 
1921 Bullets or Ballots
Bit Part (uncredited)
 
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1944 Meet Me in St. Louis (performer: "You and I" 1944 - uncredited)
 
1938 Listen, Darling (performer: "On the Bumpy Road to Love" 1938 / "On the Bumpy Road to Love" 1938, "Ten Pins in the Sky" 1938)
 
1935 Red Hot Tires (performer: "The Bulldog on the Bank" - uncredited)
 
1931 Smart Woman ("Three Little Words" 1930)
 
1931 Other Men's Women (performer: "Wherever You Stray, Wherever You Go" - uncredited)
 
Show ShowSelf (7 titles)
1980 Hollywood (TV mini-series documentary)
Herself
– End of an Era (1980) … Herself
 
1960 Person to Person (TV series documentary)
Herself
– Episode #8.7 (1960) … Herself
 
1934 The Hollywood Gad-About (documentary short)
Herself (Queen of the Frolic)
 
1929 The Show of Shows
Herself (unconfirmed) (scenes deleted)
 
1927 A Trip Through the Paramount Studio (documentary short)
Herself
 
1926 WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1926 (short)
Herself
 
1923 Hollywood
Herself, Cameo appearance
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (12 titles)
2008 Spisok korabley (documentary)
 
2004 In the Good Old Summertime Intro (video documentary short)
Mrs. Anna Smith
 
2001 Backstory (TV series documentary)
 
1996 Bogart: The Untold Story (TV documentary)
Actress in 'The Maltese Falcon' (uncredited)
 
1976 That's Entertainment, Part II (documentary)
Clip from 'Listen Darling' (uncredited)
 
1965 Hollywood My Home Town (documentary)
Herself
 
1963 Hollywood Without Make-Up (documentary)
Herself
 
1959 Frontier Justice (TV series)
 
1956 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)
 
1956 Some of the Greatest (short)
Adriana
 
1951 Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Memories (documentary short)
Herself
 
1941 Breakdowns of 1941 (short)
Herself (uncredited)
 

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Stage: Appeared in "Among the Married" on Broadway. See more »

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Alternate Names:

Helen Quintal for the Mrs. Goodfield role

Height:

5' 6" (1.68 m)
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I was never totally involved in movies. I was just making my father's dream come true. See more »

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Gave birth to her daughter Marylyn two months premature on her yacht in Honolulu, Hawaii. Both mother and daughter almost lost their lives. See more »

Nickname:

The Cameo Girl See more »

Star Sign:

Taurus