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Sep 25, 1987 · Mary Astor, whose piercing eyes and finely honed features made her the essential star to one generation of Americans and whose portrayals of mature but flawed women kept her fame bright through...
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Madeleine Force Astor was a young New York socialite when she met John Jacob Astor IV, one of the richest men in the world with a net worth of $87 million. In 1909, Astor divorced his wife of eighteen years, and announced his engagement to Madeleine. It was quite the scandal. The couple decided to take an extended honeymoon which included a trip to...
Dorothy Gibson was born in Hoboken, New Jersey. When she was twenty, she became The Original Harrison Fisher Girl with cover pictures in Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, and the Saturday Evening Post. In 1911 Dorothy began her career in silent movies, and the following year she and Mary Pickford were the highest paid actresses in the country. In ...
The woman later known as the Unsinkable Molly Brownwas Margaret Tobin when she married James Joseph Brown in 1886. She was 19; he was a 31-year-old mining engineer. In 1893 he discovered how to shore up the walls of gold mines with bales of hay. His invention led to the biggest Colorado gold strike of the era. Humble Maggie Tobin became a social le...
Madeline Astor, a newlywed on the Titanic, boarded the Titanic in Cherbourg, France, for a return trip back into New York society. Astor, in his late forties and divorced from his first wife, fell for the beautiful young socialite when she was just eighteen years old.
Mary Astor, whose piercing eyes and finely honed features made her the quintessential star to one generation of Americans and whose portrayals of mature but flawed women kept her fame bright...
Astor, Mary (1906–1987) Urbane American actress, best known for her courtroom battle for child custody and her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon. Born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke in Quincy, Illinois, on May 3, 1906; died of complications from emphysema on September 25, 1987, in Los Angeles, California;daughter of Otto ...
Apr 14, 2020 · Astor was the wife of one of the wealthiest men in the world, John Jacob Astor. He perished with the Titanic, but Madeleine survived.
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Dec 24, 2019 · Madeleine Astor was a socialite and the wife of millionaire John Jacob Astor. She is remembered for being a survivor of the infamous sinking of the RMS Titanic. Madeleine had married Colonel Astor in 1911, and had taken the first part of their honeymoon on the Olympic, a sister ship of the Titanic.
