Mary Astor (1906 - 1987)

American actress.

* May 3, 1906 Quincy, Illinois, USA
 as Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke
 September 25, 1987 Woodland Hills, California, USA



Vintage magazines

Photoplay, February 1932
Picture Play Magazine, January 1922
Photoplay, April 1928

Photoplay, May 1928
Photoplay, May 1928
Photoplay, June 1928

Photoplay, February 1929
Photoplay, July 1929
Photoplay, July 1929


Books by Mary Astor

Mary Astor
My Story, An Autobiography
New York, 1959

Mary Astor
A Life on Film
New York, 1971

Articles by Mary Astor

A Life on Film, in: Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998

Books with substantial mentioning of Mary Astor

Laurie Jacobson Dishing Hollywood Laurie Jacobson
Dishing Hollywood, The Real Scoop on Tinseltown's Most Notorious Scandals
2003

Anthony Slide Silent Players Anthony Slide
Silent Players, A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses
Lexington, Ky, 2002

John Dileo 100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember - but probably don't John Dileo
100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember - but probably don't
New York, 2002

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 3. Actors and Actresses
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Andrew Sarris You ain't heard nothin' yet Andrew Sarris
"You ain't heard nothin' yet", the American talking film ; history & memory ; 1927 - 1949
New York, Oxford, 1998

Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan
Movie Characters of Leading Performers of the Sound Era
Chicago and London, 1990

James Robert Parish and Ronald L. Bowers The MGM Stock Company James Robert Parish and Ronald L. Bowers
The MGM Stock Company, The Golden Era
New Rochelle, N.Y., 1974

Cedric Osmond Bermingham (editor) Stars of the Screen 1931 Cedric Osmond Bermingham (editor)
Stars of the Screen 1931, A volume of biographies of contemporary actors and actresses engaged in photoplay throughout the world
London, [1931]

Books with an entry on Mary Astor

Denise Lowe An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films, 1895 - 1930 Denise Lowe
An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films, 1895 - 1930
New York, London, Oxford, 2005

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Kay Weniger Das große Personenlexikon des Films Kay Weniger
Das große Personenlexikon des Films, Erster Band. A-C
Berlin, 2001

Roy Liebman Silent Film Performers Roy Liebman
Silent Film Performers, An Annotated Bibliography of Published, Unpublished and Archival Sources for over 350 Actors and Actresses
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1996

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1988, A Survey of the Films of 1987
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1988
pp. 479-480 info

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor The American movies reference book Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969

Books with photograph(s) of Mary Astor

John Richard Finch and Paul Elby Close-Ups John Richard Finch and Paul Elby
Close-Ups, From the Golden Age of the Silent Cinema
South Brunswick and New York - London, 1978

Articles with substantial mentioning of Mary Astor

D.J. Turner, Lejaren à Hiller and the cinema, in: Film History, vol. 19, 2007 pp. 302-318

Films

1920
The Scarecrow

1921
The Beggar Maid
Sentimental Tommy

1922
The Man Who Played God
John Smith

1923
The Bright Shawl
Hollywood
Puritan Passions
Second Fiddle
Success

1924
Unguarded Women
The Fighting Coward
Beau Brummel
The Fighting Adventurer
Inez from Hollywood
The Price of a Party

1925
Don Q Son of Zorro
Oh, Doctor!
The Pace That Thrills

1926
Don Juan
Forever After

1927
The Rough Riders
The Sea Tiger
Two Arabian Knights
The Sunset Derby

1928
Romance of the Underworld
Dry Martini
Dressed to Kill
Sailors' Wives

1929
The Show of Shows
The Woman from Hell
New Year's Eve

1930
The Lash
The Runaway Bride
Ladies Love Brutes
Holiday

1931
Other Men's Women
The Sin Ship
Behind Office Doors
The Royal Bed
White Shoulders
Smart Woman
Men of Chance

1932
Red Dust
A Successful Calamity
The Lost Squadron
Those We Love

1933
Jennie Gerhardt
The Little Giant
The Kennel Murder Case
The World Changes

1934
I Am a Thief
Easy to Love
The Case of the Howling Dog
The Man With Two Faces
Return of the Terror
Upperworld

1935
Page Miss Glory
Dinky
Man of Iron

1936
Lady From Nowhere
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Trapped by Television
Dodsworth
And So They Were Married

1937
The Hurricane
The Prisoner of Zenda

1938
Listen, Darling
No Time to Marry
There's Always a Woman
Paradise for Three

1939
Midnight

1940
Brigham Young - Frontiersman
Turnabout

1941
The Great Lie
The Maltese Falcon

1942
Across the Pacifik
The Palm Beach Story
In This Our Life

1943
Thousands Cheer
Young Ideas

1944
Meet Me in St. Louis
Blonde Fever

1946
Claudia and David

1947
Cass Timberlane
Cynthia
Desert Fury
Fiesta

1948
Act of Violence

1949
Any Number Can Play
Little Women

1956
A Kiss Before Dying
The Power and the Prize

1957
The Devil's Hairpin

1958
This Happy Feeling

1959
A Stranger in My Arms

1961
Return to Peyton Place

1964
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Youngblood Hawke

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