Mary Astor
Birthday: 3 May 1906, Quincy, Illinois, USA
Birth Name: Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke
Height: 165 cm
Mary Astor was born, Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke, on May 3, 1906 in Quincy, Illinois to a German immigrant father, Otto Ludwig Langhanke, and an American mother from Illinois, Helen Marie Vasconcell ...Show More
[on George S. Kaufman] He was the kind of man I'd go over a cliff for.
[on George S. Kaufman] He was the kind of man I'd go over a cliff for.
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
I was never totally involved in movies. I was making someone else's dream come true. Not mine.
I was never totally involved in movies. I was making someone else's dream come true. Not mine.
There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary As Show more
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? Hide
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
At Metro, you practically had to go to the front office if you wanted something as real as having yo Show more
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. Hide
[on her early Hollywood roles] I was as two-dimensional as the screen itself: cool, indifferent, loo Show more
[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. Hide
I was never totally involved in movies. I was just making my father's dream come true.
I was never totally involved in movies. I was just making my father's dream come true.
A person without memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without memory is neither a chil Show more
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. Hide
It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
Mary Astor's FILMOGRAPHY
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as Actor (46)
Mary Astor'S roles
The Princess Centimillia
Brigid O'Shaughnessy
Mrs. Anna Smith
