Mary Astor : Oscar Winning Actress

 

Overview

Born : May 3, 1906 in Quincy, Illinois, USA

Died : September 25, 1987 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA  (respiratory failure due to pulmonary emphysema)

Birth Name : Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke

Nicknames : The Cameo Girl , Rusty

Height : 5' 6" (1.68 m)

Mary Astor was conceived Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke, on May 3, 1906 in Quincy, Illinois to a German worker father, Otto Ludwig Langhanke, and an American mother from Illinois, Helen Marie Vasconcellos, of Portuguese and Irish family. Her folks were exceptionally aggressive for her as they perceived Mary's excellence and knowing whether they made the right decision at the right time, they could put her on the map. They comprehended that they needed something preferable for their little girl over they had, so they got it going by driving Mary into different excellence challenges. Karma was with Mary and her folks since one challenge came to the consideration of Hollywood head honchos who marked her at 14 years old. Her first film was a piece part in The Scarecrow (1920). It wasn't a lot, however it was a beginning. All through 1921-1923 she proceeded with her vocation with spot or minor jobs in various films. In 1924, Mary handled a plum task with a job as Lady Margery Alvaney inverse the incomparable John Barrymore in the film Beau Brummel (1924). This sent off her profession to fame as it did with an energetic issue with Barrymore. Anyway the undertaking finished before she could star with him again in the exemplary Don Juan (1926). Mary was, presently, the new realistic dear with each film pressing the theaters. Before the finish of the twenties, the sound upset had taken a solid hang on the business and Mary was one of those fortunate entertainers who made the effective change to "talkies" as a result of her voice and solid screen presence. Mary's vocation took off to more prominent statures. Movies like Red Dust (1932), Convention City (1933), Man of Iron (1935), and The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), kept her star at the top. In 1938, Mary turned out five component films which kept her occupied and at the center of attention. Subsequently, she produced films at a lesser rate. In 1941, she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her job of Sandra Kovac in The Great Lie (1941). That very year she showed up in the commended film The Maltese Falcon (1941), however her star before long started to fall. In view of her three separations, the demise of her first spouse, Kenneth Hawks who passed on in a plane accident, liquor addiction, a self destruction endeavor, and an industrious heart condition, Mary got more modest jobs in motion pictures. In the entire of the 1950s she showed up in just five creations. Her last toss with the cinema was as Jewell Mayhew in Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964). Despite the fact that this was her last film, she had showed up in a marvelous 123 movies. Mary experienced her excess days bound to the Motion Picture Country Home where she passed on from a respiratory failure on September 25, 1987 at 81 years old.

WAMPAS (Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers) Baby Star on 1926.

Joined in and moved on from Kenwood-Loring School in Chicago, Illinois.

In 1959, she wrote her straightforward self-portrayal, "My Story", which was a success, a tell-all where she transparently examined her fight with liquor and her bombed relationships, yet, curiously, kept away from the subject of her movie profession. In 1971, she additionally composed five books and emerged with a journal, "A Life on Film", where she DID talk about her movie vocation. This was likewise a success.

Sister by marriage of Howard Hawks and William B. Birds of prey, cousin-in-law of Carole Lombard.

Acording to an August 1924 Topeka Capital article, Mary Astor (Lucille Langhanke) grew up and went to class in Topeka. Her dad was a window dresser at the Crosby Brothers store.

Account in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 38-40. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

She was granted a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6701 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.

Brought forth her girl Marylyn two months untimely on her yacht in Honolulu, Hawaii. Both mother and girl nearly lost their lives.

Lived with her dear companion Florence Eldridge and her significant other Fredric March following the unexpected demise of her better half Kenneth Hawks.

Her dad Otto passed on in February 1943 of a coronary episode and her mom Helen kicked the bucket in January 1947 of a heart sickness.

In the wake of shooting Little Women (1949), Astor ruled against recharging her agreement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as she had become worn out on playing lowly moms.

Resided with her child Tono in Fountain Valley, California subsequent to recording Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) until 1971 when she moved to a little bungalow on the grounds of the Motion Picture and Television Country House in Woodland Hills because of her persistent heart condition.

Having experienced liquor abuse for a considerable length of time, Astor at long last looked into an asylum for drunkards in 1949.

Changed over to Roman Catholicism in 1951 following a self destruction endeavor.

Was nearly terminated from Dodsworth (1936) following the disclosure of her undertaking with George S. Kaufman, however Samuel Goldwyn demanded she stay in the image.

Bette Davis was initially given a role as Sandra Kovak, the hot-tempered yet skilled piano player, in The Great Lie (1941) however rather decided on the more modest job of Maggie Van Allen in a bid to let her old buddy Astor save her movie profession. Accordingly, Astor won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her exhibition.

Expressed gratitude toward both Bette Davis and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in her acknowledgment discourse for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 1941 for The Great Lie (1941).

As per "Reel Facts: The Movie Book of Records", Astor procured $500 each week in the mid 1920s at Famous Players and rose to $3750 each week at twentieth Century Fox during the multi week 1928-1929 season.

She was a firm liberal Democrat who was dynamic in the ladies' part of the Hollywood Democratic Committee as well as the missions of such liberal presidents as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter.

Had showed up with Henry O'Neill in five movies: The Kennel Murder Case (1933), The World Changes (1933), The Man with Two Faces (1934), Upperworld (1934) and Dinky (1935).

Was the seventeenth entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Great Lie (1941) at The fourteenth Academy Awards on February 26, 1942.

She passed on just a brief time before her The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) co-star Madeleine Carroll.

Following her demise, she was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

Her epithet "Corroded" came from her dim reddish hair. One fan magazine portrayed her hair tone as "Titian, which photos dark, and her eyes are extremely dull".

In March 2014, she was respected as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month.

In spite of the fact that Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) will show as Miss Astor's last film on a sequential rundown of her work, Youngblood Hawke (1964) was really the keep going film she chipped away at. "Hawke" was delivered on November 4, 1964, preceding "Charlotte"; which was delivered around 7 weeks after the fact, on December 24.

Became pregnant by her first spouse Kenneth Hawks in July 1928 yet she went through an early termination.

Had two kids: girl Marylyn Hauoli Thorpe (Marilyn Thorpe; b. June 15, 1932) with ex Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, and child Anthony Paul Del Campo (June 5, 1939 - May 26, 2014) with ex Manuel Del Campo.

Her child Anthony was conceived five weeks untimely.

Grandma to Frances (b. Walk 11, 1951), Clare (b. July 16, 1955), Gabrielle (b. October 15, 1957) and John (b. November 28, 1961) through girl Marylyn and her significant other, Frank Roh.

Grandma to Krystin (b. August 29, 1970) and Michael (b. December 11, 1974) through child Tono and his better half, Patrica Leuty.

Is one of 4 entertainers to have won an Oscar for a film where they showcased a work, Astor's being for The Great Lie (1941). The others are Luise Rainer for The Good Earth (1937), Kim Hunter for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and Brenda Fricker for My Left Foot (1989).

Is one of 6 entertainers to have won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing a person who is pregnant eventually during the film, hers being for The Great Lie (1941). The others are Kim Hunter for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Mary Steenburgen for Melvin and Howard (1980), Brenda Fricker for My Left Foot (1989), Rachel Weisz for The Constant Gardener (2005), and Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006).

In her book "A Life on Film," Mary Astor reviewed that when the movie Young Ideas (1943) went along, she was starting to be upset about where her vocation was taking, having marked a term contract with MGM. She was driven into a long queue of what she called "Moms for Metro", and when informed that in this film, she could be playing Susan Peters' mom, she thought, "Expand; what do I do as Susan Peters mother: change her diaper or control center her since she wasn't asked to the prom?".

On August 26, 2019, she was regarded with a day of her film work during the Turner Classic Movies Summer Under the Stars.

She has showed up in six movies that have been chosen for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "socially, by and large or tastefully" critical: Red Dust (1932), Dodsworth (1936), The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), Midnight (1939), The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Meet Me In St. Louis (1944).

Thought of her personal history 'My Story'.

List of Mary Astor Movies 

• Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
•  Youngblood Hawke
• Burke's Law (TV Series)
• Dr. Kildare (TV Series)
• Checkmate (TV Series)
•  Return to Peyton Place
• Buick-Electra Playhouse (TV Series)
•  The Snows of Kilimanjaro (TV Movie)
•  The Philadelphia Story (TV Movie)
•  A Stranger in My Arms
•  This Happy Feeling
•  The Devil's Hairpin
•  Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series)
•  The Power and the Prize
•  A Kiss Before Dying
•  Justice (TV Series)
•  Ponds Theater (TV Series)
•  Yesterday and Today
•  Any Number Can Play
•  Little Women
•  Act of Violence
•  Cass Timberlane
•  The Rich Full Life
•  Desert Fury
•  Fiesta
•  Claudia and David
•  Blonde Fever
•  Meet Me In St. Louis
•  Thousands Cheer
•  Young Ideas
•  Across the Pacific
•  The Palm Beach Story
•  The Maltese Falcon
•  The Great Lie
•  Brigham Young: Frontiersman
•  Turnabout
•  Midnight
•  Listen, Darling
•  Woman Against Woman
•  There's Always a Woman
•  Romance for Three
•  No Time to Marry
•  The Hurricane
•  The Prisoner of Zenda
•  Lady from Nowhere
•  Dodsworth
•  Caught by Television
•  And So They Were Married
•  The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
•  Man of Iron
•  Page Miss Glory
•  Dinky
•  Straight from the Heart
•  Racing Luck
•  I Am a Thief
•  The Case of the Howling Dog
•  The Man with Two Faces
•  Return of the Terror
•  Upperworld
•  Easy to Love
•  Convention City
•  The World Changes
•  The Kennel Murder Case
•  Jennie Gerhardt
•  The Little Giant
•  Red Dust
•  Those We Love
•  A Successful Calamity
•  The Lost Squadron
•  Men of Chance
•  Smart Woman
•  White Shoulders
•  The Sin Ship
•  Behind Office Doors
•  Other Men's Women
•  The Queen's Husband
•  The Lash
•  Holiday
•  Ladies Love Brutes
•  Runaway Bride
•  Show of Shows
•  The Woman from Hell
•  New Year's Eve
•  Romance of the Underworld
•  Dry Martini
•  Heart to Heart
•  3-Ring Marriage
•  Dressed to Kill
•  Sailors' Wives
•  Her Primitive Mate
•  The Rough Riders
•  Rose of the Golden West
•  Two Arabian Knights
•  The Sunset Derby
•  The Sea Tiger
•  Forever After
•  Don Juan
•  Into the Light
•  High Steppers
•  Scarlet Saint
•  The Pace That Thrills
•  Don Q Son of Zorro
•  Playing with Souls
•  Enticement
•  Oh, Doctor!
•  Inez from Hollywood
•  The Price of a Party
•  Unguarded Women
•  The Fighting Adventurer
•  Beau Brummel
•  The Fighting Coward
•  To the Ladies
•  Woman-Proof
•  The Faun
•  Puritan Passions
•  Hollywood
•  The Bright Shawl
•  Success
•  Second Fiddle
•  The Angelus
•  The Rapids
•  The Man Who Played God
•  John Smith  & Many more.....