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Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke; May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an American actress. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Although her career spanned several decades, she may be best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941).
The Runaway Bride is a 1930 American pre-Code crime film starring Mary Astor, Lloyd Hughes, and Paul Hurst.It was directed by Donald Crisp, from a screenplay by Jane Murfin, adapted from the play Cooking Her Goose by H. H. Van Loan and Lolita Ann Westman.
Dodsworth is a 1936 American drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor and David Niven. Sidney Howard based the screenplay on his 1934 stage adaptation of the 1929 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis.
Hollywood Babylon is a book by avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger, which details the purported scandals of famous Hollywood denizens from the 1900s to the 1950s. The book was banned shortly after it was first published in the U.S. in 1965, and remained unavailable until reprinted ten years later. [2]
Mary Gray, AKA Sally Fairchild Ladies Love Brutes: Mimi Howell Holiday: Julia Seton The Lash: Rosita Garcia 1931 The Royal Bed: Princess Anne Other Men's Women: Lily Kulper Behind Office Doors: Mary Linden The Sin Ship: Frisco Kitty White Shoulders: Norma Selbee Lost film Smart Woman: Mrs. Nancy Gibson Men of Chance: Martha Silk 1932 The Lost ...
The Great Lie is a 1941 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding, and starring Bette Davis, George Brent and Mary Astor. [3] The screenplay by Lenore J. Coffee is based on the novel January Heights by Polan Banks.
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Directed by Michael Curtiz for Warner Bros., it stars William Powell and Mary Astor. Powell's role as Philo Vance is not the actor's first performance as the aristocratic sleuth; he also portrays the character in three films produced by Paramount in 1929 and 1930. In the film, dog show competitor Archer Coe is found murdered within his own bedroom.