Mary Astor Net Worth
Mary Astor Net Worth is
$15 Million
Mary Astor Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke; May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an American actress. Best remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941), Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. She eventually transitioned to talkies, but nearly saw her career destroyed due to public scandal in the mid-1930s. She was sued for support by her parents and was later branded an adulterous wife by her ex-husband in a custody fight over her daughter. Overcoming these stumbling blocks in her private life, Astor went on to greater success on screen, eventually winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Great Lie (1941). She was a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player through most of the 1940s and continued to work in film, on television and on stage until her retirement in 1964. Astor was the author of five novels. Her autobiography was a bestseller, as was her later book, A Life on Film, which was specifically about her career. Director Lindsay Anderson wrote of her in 1990: "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 seemed to illuminate the parts she played." | Full Name | Mary Astor |
| Date Of Birth | May 3, 1906, Quincy, Illinois, United States |
| Died | September 25, 1987, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Place Of Birth | Quincy, Illinois, USA |
| Height | 5' 5" (1.65 m) |
| Profession | Actress, Soundtrack |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Thomas Gordon Wheelock (m. 1945–1955) |
| Children | Marylyn Hauoli Thorpe, Tono del Campo |
| Parents | Otto Ludwig Langhanke, Helen Marie de Vasconcellos |
| Awards | Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role |
| Movies | The Maltese Falcon, The Great Lie, Dodsworth, Meet Me in St. Louis, Across the Pacific, Red Dust, The Palm Beach Story, Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Little Women, Act of Violence, The Kennel Murder Case, Don Juan, Beau Brummel, Behind Office Doors, The Hurricane, Return to Peyton Place, The Prison... |
| Star Sign | Taurus |
| Title | Salary |
|---|---|
| Beau Brummel (1924) | $1,100 /week |
| Second Fiddle (1923) | $750 /week |
| John Smith (1922) | $60 /week |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | At Metro, you practically had to go to the front office if you wanted something as real as having your hair mussed. All automobiles were shiny, a picture never hung crooked, a door never squeaked, stocking seams were always straight and no actress ever had a shiny nose. |
| 2 | There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor Type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor? |
| 3 | [on George S. Kaufman] He was the kind of man I'd go over a cliff for. |
| 4 | A person without memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country. |
| 5 | Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. |
| 6 | [on her early Hollywood roles] I was as two-dimensional as the screen itself: cool, indifferent, looking lovely in close-ups. Period. Period. Period. When was I ever going to learn to act? You can't learn if you can't experiment and find out what works and doesn't work. But the hours are long, the schedule rigid, so I did what I was told and saved time and money for the front office. And got a lot of jobs that way. |
| 7 | It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness. |
| 8 | I was never totally involved in movies. I was just making my father's dream come true. |
| 9 | A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Grandmother to Krystin (b. August 29, 1970) and Michael (b. December 11, 1974) via son Tono and his wife, Patrica Leuty. |
| 2 | Grandmother to Frances (b. March 11, 1951), Clare (b. July 16, 1955), Gabrielle (b. October 15, 1957) and John (b. November 28, 1961) via daughter Marylyn and her husband, Frank Roh. |
| 3 | Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 33, a son Anthony "Tono" Paul Del Campo five weeks early in California on June 5, 1939. Child's father is her 3rd [ex] husband, Manuel Del Campo. |
| 4 | Gave birth to her 1st child at age 26, a daughter Marylyn Hauoli Thorpe two months early in Hawaii on June 15, 1932. Child's father is her 2nd [ex] husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe. |
| 5 | Became pregnant by her 1st husband Kenneth Hawks in July 1928 but she underwent an abortion. |
| 6 | Although "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte" will show as Miss Astor's final film on a chronological list of her work, "Youngblood Hawke" was actually the last film she worked on. "Hawke" was released on November 4, 1964, before "Charlotte"; which was released about 7 weeks later, on December 24. |
| 7 | In March 2014, she was honored as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month. |
| 8 | Her nickname "Rusty" came from her dark auburn hair. One fan magazine described her hair color as "Titian, which photographs black, and her eyes are very dark". |
| 9 | Following her death, she was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. |
| 10 | She died only seven days before her The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) co-star Madeleine Carroll. |
| 11 | Was the 17th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Great Lie (1941) at The 14th Academy Awards on February 26, 1942. |
| 12 | Had appeared with Henry O'Neill in five films: The Kennel Murder Case (1933), The World Changes (1933), The Man with Two Faces (1934), Upperworld (1934) and Dinky (1935). |
| 13 | She was a staunch liberal Democrat who was active in the women's chapter of the Hollywood Democratic Committee as well as the campaigns of such liberal presidents as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter. |
| 14 | According to "Reel Facts: The Movie Book of Records", Astor earned $500 per week in the early 1920s at Famous Players and rose to $3750 per week at 20th Century Fox during the 40 week 1928-1929 season. |
| 15 | Thanked both Bette Davis and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in her acceptance speech for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 1941 for The Great Lie (1941). |
| 16 | Bette Davis was originally cast as Sandra Kovak, the hot-tempered but talented pianist, in The Great Lie (1941) but instead opted for the smaller role of Maggie Van Allen in a bid to let her good friend Astor save her film career. As a result, Astor won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance. |
| 17 | Was almost fired from Dodsworth (1936) following the revelation of her affair with George S. Kaufman, but Samuel Goldwyn insisted she remain in the picture. |
| 18 | Converted to Roman Catholicism in 1951 following a suicide attempt. |
| 19 | Having suffered from alcoholism for 20 years, Astor finally checked into a sanitarium for alcoholics in 1949. |
| 20 | Lived with her son Tono in Fountain Valley, California after filming Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) until 1971 when she moved to a small cottage on the grounds of the Motion Picture and Television Country House in Woodland Hills due to her chronic heart condition. |
| 21 | After shooting Little Women (1949), Astor decided against renewing her contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as she had grown tired of playing humdrum mothers. |
| 22 | Her father Otto died in February 1943 of a heart attack and her mother Helen died in January 1947 of a heart ailment. |
| 23 | Lived with her close friend Florence Eldridge and her husband Fredric March following the sudden death of her husband Kenneth Hawks. |
| 24 | Gave birth to her daughter Marylyn two months premature on her yacht in Honolulu, Hawaii. Both mother and daughter almost lost their lives. |
| 25 | She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6701 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960. |
| 26 | Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 38-40. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999. |
| 27 | Acording to an August 1924 Topeka Capital article, Mary Astor (Lucille Langhanke) grew up and attended school in Topeka. Her father was a window dresser at the Crosby Brothers store. |
| 28 | Sister-in-law of Howard Hawks and William B. Hawks, cousin-in-law of Carole Lombard. |
| 29 | In 1959, she penned her frank autobiography, "My Story", which was a bestseller, a tell-all in which she openly discussed her battle with alcohol and her failed marriages, but, interestingly, avoided the subject of her film career. In 1971, she also wrote five novels and came out with a memoir, "A Life on Film", in which she DID discuss her film career. This was also a bestseller. |
| 30 | Attended and graduated from Kenwood-Loring School in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 31 | WAMPAS Baby Star on 1926. |
Actress
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lady from Nowhere | 1936 | Polly Dunlap | |
| Dodsworth | 1936 | Edith Cortright | |
| Trapped by Television | 1936 | Barbara 'Bobby' Blake | |
| And So They Were Married | 1936 | Edith Farnham | |
| The Murder of Dr. Harrigan | 1936 | Lillian Cooper | |
| Man of Iron | 1935 | Vida | |
| Page Miss Glory | 1935 | Gladys | |
| Dinky | 1935 | Mrs. Martha Daniels | |
| Straight from the Heart | 1935 | Marian Henshaw | |
| Red Hot Tires | 1935 | Patricia Sanford | |
| I Am a Thief | 1934 | Odette | |
| The Case of the Howling Dog | 1934 | Bessie Foley | |
| The Man with Two Faces | 1934 | Jessica Wells | |
| Return of the Terror | 1934 | Olga Morgan | |
| Upper World | 1934 | Hettie Stream | |
| Easy to Love | 1934 | Charlotte | |
| Convention City | 1933 | Arlene Dale | |
| The World Changes | 1933 | Virginia 'Ginny' Clafflin Nordholm | |
| The Kennel Murder Case | 1933 | Hilda Lake | |
| Jennie Gerhardt | 1933 | Letty Pace | |
| The Little Giant | 1933 | Ruth Wayburn | |
| Red Dust | 1932 | Barbara Willis | |
| A Successful Calamity | 1932 | Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton | |
| Those We Love | 1932 | May Ballard | |
| The Lost Squadron | 1932 | Follette | |
| Men of Chance | 1931 | Marthe | |
| Smart Woman | 1931 | Mrs. Nancy Gibson | |
| White Shoulders | 1931 | Norma Selbee | |
| The Sin Ship | 1931 | Frisco Kitty | |
| Behind Office Doors | 1931 | Mary Linden | |
| Other Men's Women | 1931 | Lily | |
| The Royal Bed | 1931 | Princess Anne | |
| The Lash | 1930 | Dona Rosita Garcia | |
| Holiday | 1930 | Julia Seton | |
| Ladies Love Brutes | 1930 | Mimi Howell | |
| The Runaway Bride | 1930 | Mary Gray - aka Sally Fairchild | |
| The Show of Shows | 1929 | Performer in 'The Pirate' Number | |
| The Woman from Hell | 1929 | Dee Renaud | |
| New Year's Eve | 1929 | Marjorie Ware | |
| Romance of the Underworld | 1928 | Judith Andrews | |
| Dry Martini | 1928 | Elizabeth Quimby | |
| Heart to Heart | 1928 | Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie | |
| Three-Ring Marriage | 1928 | Anna | |
| Dressed to Kill | 1928 | Jean MacDonald | |
| Sailors' Wives | 1928 | Carol Trent | |
| No Place to Go | 1927 | Sally Montgomery | |
| The Rough Riders | 1927 | Dolly | |
| Rose of the Golden West | 1927 | Elena | |
| Two Arabian Knights | 1927 | Mirza | |
| The Sunset Derby | 1927 | Molly Gibson | |
| The Sea Tiger | 1927 | Amy Cortissos | |
| Forever After | 1926 | Jennie Clayton | |
| Don Juan | 1926 | Adriana della Varnese | |
| The Wise Guy | 1926 | Mary | |
| High Steppers | 1926 | Audrey Nye | |
| Scarlet Saint | 1925 | Fidele Tridon | |
| The Pace That Thrills | 1925 | Doris | |
| Don Q Son of Zorro | 1925 | Dolores de Muro | |
| Playing with Souls | 1925 | Margo | |
| Enticement | 1925 | Leonore Bewlay | |
| Oh, Doctor! | 1925 | Dolores Hicks | |
| Inez from Hollywood | 1924 | Fay Bartholdi | |
| The Price of a Party | 1924 | Alice Barrows | |
| Unguarded Women | 1924 | Helen Castle | |
| The Fighting Adventurer | 1924 | Mary O'Mallory | |
| Beau Brummel | 1924 | Lady Margery Alvanley | |
| The Fighting Coward | 1924 | Lucy | |
| To the Ladies | 1923 | Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) | |
| Woman-Proof | 1923 | Violet Lynwood | |
| The Marriage Maker | 1923 | Vivian Hope-Clarke | |
| Puritan Passions | 1923 | Rachel | |
| The Bright Shawl | 1923 | Narcissa Escobar | |
| Success | 1923 | Rose Randolph | |
| Second Fiddle | 1923 | Polly Crawford | |
| The Angelus | 1922 | Bit Part (uncredited) | |
| The Rapids | 1922 | Elsie Worden | |
| The Man Who Played God | 1922 | Young Woman | |
| Hope | 1922 | Short | Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter |
| John Smith | 1922 | Irene Mason | |
| The Young Painter | 1922 | Short | Helen Seymour |
| Bullets or Ballots | 1921 | Bit Part (uncredited) | |
| Wings of the Border | 1921 | Short | |
| The Beggar Maid | 1921 | Short | Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid |
| My Lady o' the Pines | 1921 | Short | Norah Collison |
| Sentimental Tommy | 1921 | scenes deleted | |
| Brother of the Bear | 1921 | Short | Marcia Hawthorne |
| Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte | 1964 | Jewel Mayhew | |
| Youngblood Hawke | 1964 | Irene Perry | |
| Ben Casey | 1963 | TV Series | Dame Clorissa Rose Genet |
| Burke's Law | 1963 | TV Series | Florence Roberts |
| Dr. Kildare | 1962-1963 | TV Series | Aunt Frances / Martha Lantzinge |
| The Defenders | 1963 | TV Series | Flora Goode |
| Checkmate | 1962 | TV Series | Esther Brack |
| Return to Peyton Place | 1961 | Mrs. Roberta Carter | |
| Rawhide | 1961 | TV Series | Emma Cardwell |
| Thriller | 1960 | TV Series | Rose French |
| Playhouse 90 | 1957-1960 | TV Series | Helen May Whitfield Eileen Bavister Sylvia ... |
| Buick-Electra Playhouse | 1960 | TV Series | |
| The Snows of Kilimanjaro | 1960 | TV Movie | |
| The United States Steel Hour | 1955-1960 | TV Series | Lydia Chalmers / Mrs. Wickens / Isabelle Lagarde |
| The Philadelphia Story | 1959 | TV Movie | Margaret Lord |
| General Electric Theater | 1959 | TV Series | Bea Hicks |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | 1958-1959 | TV Series | Grace Dolan / Mrs. Fenimore |
| A Stranger in My Arms | 1959 | Mrs. Virgilnie Beasley | |
| U.S. Marshal | 1958 | TV Series | Amy Simmons |
| This Happy Feeling | 1958 | Mrs. Tremaine | |
| Studio One in Hollywood | 1954-1958 | TV Series | Harriet Brand / Ruth Sparling |
| The Devil's Hairpin | 1957 | Mrs. Jargin | |
| Climax! | 1955-1957 | TV Series | Clarissa Bowman / Martha / Ethel Allen / ... |
| Lux Video Theatre | 1956-1957 | TV Series | Mildred Le Brun / Margaret Eliot |
| Zane Grey Theater | 1957 | TV Series | Sarah Simmons |
| Robert Montgomery Presents | 1956 | TV Series | Norma Desmond |
| The Power and the Prize | 1956 | Mrs. George Salt | |
| Matinee Theatre | 1956 | TV Series | |
| A Kiss Before Dying | 1956 | Mrs. Corliss | |
| Playwrights '56 | 1956 | TV Series | Georgina |
| Star Stage | 1956 | TV Series | Nurse |
| Studio 57 | 1956 | TV Series | Julia Kean |
| Front Row Center | 1955 | TV Series | Millicent Jordan |
| Justice | 1955 | TV Series | |
| The Elgin Hour | 1955 | TV Series | Madge Draper |
| Producers' Showcase | 1955 | TV Series | Nancy Blake |
| Ponds Theater | 1955 | TV Series | |
| The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse | 1954 | TV Series | |
| The Best of Broadway | 1954 | TV Series | Margaret Lord |
| Danger | 1954 | TV Series | |
| Kraft Theatre | 1954 | TV Series | |
| Yesterday and Today | 1953 | ||
| Any Number Can Play | 1949 | Ada | |
| Little Women | 1949 | Marmee | |
| Act of Violence | 1949 | Pat | |
| Cass Timberlane | 1947 | Queenie Havock | |
| Cynthia | 1947 | Louise Bishop | |
| Desert Fury | 1947 | Fritzi Haller | |
| Fiesta | 1947 | Señora Morales | |
| Claudia and David | 1946 | Elizabeth Van Doren | |
| Blonde Fever | 1944 | Delilah Donay | |
| Meet Me in St. Louis | 1944 | Mrs. Anna Smith | |
| Thousands Cheer | 1943 | Hyllary Jones | |
| Young Ideas | 1943 | Jo Evans | |
| The Palm Beach Story | 1942 | The Princess Centimillia | |
| Across the Pacific | 1942 | Alberta Marlow | |
| The Maltese Falcon | 1941 | Brigid O'Shaughnessy | |
| The Great Lie | 1941 | Sandra Kovak | |
| Brigham Young | 1940 | Mary Ann Young | |
| Turnabout | 1940 | Marion Manning | |
| Midnight | 1939 | Helene Flammarion | |
| Listen, Darling | 1938 | Dottie Wingate | |
| Woman Against Woman | 1938 | Cynthia Holland | |
| There's Always a Woman | 1938 | Lola Fraser | |
| Paradise for Three | 1938 | Mrs. Irene Mallebre | |
| No Time to Marry | 1938 | Kay McGowan | |
| The Hurricane | 1937 | Mme. DeLaage | |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | 1937 | Antoinette de Mauban |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meet Me in St. Louis | 1944 | performer: "You and I" 1944 - uncredited | |
| Listen, Darling | 1938 | "On the Bumpy Road to Love" 1938, "Ten Pins in the Sky" 1938 / performer: "On the Bumpy Road to Love" 1938 | |
| Red Hot Tires | 1935 | performer: "The Bulldog on the Bank" - uncredited | |
| Smart Woman | 1931 | "Three Little Words", uncredited | |
| Other Men's Women | 1931 | performer: "Wherever You Stray, Wherever You Go" - uncredited |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Dean's Lost Slideshow | 2013 | Documentary | |
| Hollywood | 1980 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Herself |
| Person to Person | 1960 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| The Hollywood Gad-About | 1934 | Documentary short | Herself (Queen of the Frolic) |
| A Trip Through the Paramount Studio | 1927 | Documentary short | Herself |
| WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1926 | 1926 | Short | Herself |
| Hollywood | 1923 | Herself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spisok korabley | 2008 | Documentary | Mirza |
| In the Good Old Summertime Intro | 2004 | Video documentary short | Mrs. Anna Smith |
| Backstory | 2001 | TV Series documentary | Jewel Mayhew |
| Bogart: The Untold Story | 1996 | TV Movie documentary | Actress in 'The Maltese Falcon' (uncredited) |
| A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Anna Smith, 'Meet Me in St. Louis' (uncredited) |
| Northern Exposure | 1994 | TV Series | Brigid O'Shaughnessy |
| That's Entertainment, Part II | 1976 | Documentary | Clip from 'Listen Darling' (uncredited) |
| The Dick Cavett Show | 1971 | TV Series | Herself |
| Hollywood My Home Town | 1965 | Documentary | Herself |
| Hollywood Without Make-Up | 1963 | Documentary | Herself |
| Hollywood: The Golden Years | 1961 | TV Movie documentary | Acress 'Don Juan' (uncredited) |
| Frontier Justice | 1959 | TV Series | Sarah Simmons |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1956 | TV Series | Herself |
| Some of the Greatest | 1955 | Short | Adriana |
| Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Memories | 1951 | Documentary short | Herself |
| Breakdowns of 1941 | 1941 | Short | Herself (uncredited) |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Motion Picture | On 8 February 1960. At. 6701 Hollywood Blvd. |
| 1942 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | The Great Lie (1941) |
Known for movies
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
as Brigid O'Shaughnessy
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
as Mrs. Anna Smith
Dodsworth (1936)
as Edith Cortright
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
as The Princess Centimillia