Mary Astor
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 Mary Astor facts

• Although her career spanned several decades, she may be best remembered for her performance 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
• When talkies arrived, her voice was initially considered too masculine and she was off the screen for a year
• After she appeared in a play with friend Florence Eldridge, the film offers returned, and she resumed her career in sound pictures
• In 1936, Astor's career was nearly destroyed by scandal
• She had an affair with playwright George S. Kaufman and was branded an adulterous wife by her ex-husband during a custody fight over their daughter
• Overcoming these stumbling blocks in her private life, she went on to greater film success, eventually winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of concert pianist Sandra Kovak in The Great Lie (1941)
• Astor was a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player through most of the 1940s and continued to work in film, television, and on stage until her retirement in 1964