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Mary Astor Biography
Mary almost 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 during a custody fight over her daughter. Overcoming these stumbling blocks in her private life, Astor went on to even greater success on the screen, eventually winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Sandra Kovak in The Great Lie (1941). Director Lindsay Anderson said of her: "...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." She continued to act in movies, on television and on stage into the 1960s. She retired from the screen in 1964.

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Bust: 33"   Waist: /2"  Hips: 37"

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  • A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
  • 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
  • I was never totally involved in movies. I was just making my father`s dream come true.
  • It`s not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
  • Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
  • 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?
  • [On George S. Kaufman] "He was the kind of man I`d go over a cliff for."
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  • 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.
  • In 1959 she penned her frank autobiography, "My Story," which was a best seller, 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.
  • Interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, USA. Specific Interment Location: N-L523-5.
  • She also wrote five novels and came out with a memoir, "A Life on Film", in 1971, in which she DID discuss her film career. This was also a best seller.
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