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May 2, 2022 · ere are 10 things you should know about Mary Astor, born on May 3, 1906. Over the course of a 44-year career, she appeared in more than 120 films and amassed...
Jul 2, 2024 · Mary Astor's origin story is right out of the Old Hollywood starlet playbook. When Astor was only around 16 years old, famed photographer Charles Albin saw her walking down the street in Manhattan ...
Nov 13, 2019 · Mary Astor was born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke in Quincy, Illinois, on May 3, 1906, to Otto Langhanke and Helen Marie de Vasconcellos. Astor’s mother was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, but had Portuguese roots. Astor’s father was from Germany.
Jan 27, 2010 · My story: an autobiography is a memoir by the Hollywood actress Mary Astor, who reveals her personal and professional struggles and triumphs. Read her fascinating life story on Archive.org.
Oct 4, 2016 · Thus began a half-century obsession that reached its peak in Mary Astor’s Purple Diary, “a thoroughly charming” (New York Times Book Review, front-page review) account of the scandal in which Sorel narrates and illustrates the travails of the Oscar-winning actress alongside his own personal story of discovering an unlikely muse.
Jan 19, 2017 · Mary Astor delivers the line so delightfully off-the-cuff that it remains the funniest line in the movie and pretty much sums up her character. It is one of the great comic performances of the 1940s. By this point in her career Mary Astor had mastered her craft and could do most anything with a flair that few performers of the period could match.
Mary Astor was a very under-appreciated actress. She admits herself to shying away from star billing to remain a feature player so as not to have too much resting on her shoulders. Her story here chronicles her career from the beginning up until the late 50's where she was back into success on stage and TV after struggling through alcoholism ...
