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Mary Astor was an American actress who starred in silent and sound films, such as The Maltese Falcon and The Great Lie. She also wrote novels and an autobiography that revealed her scandalous affair and custody battle.
Mary Astor was a Hollywood actress who starred in silent and sound films, and won an Oscar for The Great Lie (1941). She had a turbulent personal life, with three divorces, a suicide attempt, and a heart condition.
- January 1, 1
- Quincy, Illinois, USA
- January 1, 1
- Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Mary Astor was a Hollywood actress who starred in silent and sound films, and won an Oscar for The Great Lie (1941). She had a turbulent personal life with three divorces, a suicide attempt, and a scandal over her diary.
- May 3, 1906
- September 25, 1987
Sep 14, 2016 · September 14, 2016. Mary Astor becomes Hollywood’s unwitting sex bomb. Illustration by Edward Sorel. I guess you could say that Mary Astor and I “met cute,” the way romantic leads always do ...
- Franklyn Thorpe read about Mary Astor's affair with a famous playwright. By 1936, Astor and Thorpe, a physician, had been married five years and shared a daughter, Marylyn.
- For revenge, Franklyn Thorpe blackmailed Mary Astor. Thorpe demanded Astor give him sole custody of Marylyn, half of Astor's house, and control of her finances.
- Mary Astor put everything on the line for her child. But Thorpe didn't stop there. For the next 15 months, whenever he and Astor clashed, he threatened to take Marylyn away.
- The press reported that Mary Astor’s diary was written in purple ink. The diaries were the focus of the custody trial. Thorpe's lawyer announced that they would "split the movie industry wide open" because Astor "experimented with love as a scientist experiments with test tubes."
Learn about the life and career of Mary Astor, an American actress who starred in silent and talkie films and won an Oscar for her role in The Great Lie. Discover her famous affair with George S. Kaufman, her memoirs, and her film noir masterpiece The Maltese Falcon.
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Sep 26, 1987 · Mary Astor was born Lucile Langhanke on May 3, 1906, in Quincy, Ill., the only child of the former Helen Vasconcells, an American, and Otto Ludwig Wilhelm Langhanke, a German immigrant who made an ...
