Autobiography of mary astor

Mary Astor

American actress (1906–1987)

Mary Astor

Astor in 1933

Born

Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke


(1906-05-03)May 3, 1906

Quincy, Illinois, U.S.

DiedSeptember 25, 1987(1987-09-25) (aged 81)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Resting placeHoly Cross Cemetery
OccupationActress
Years active1921–1964
Political partyDemocratic
Spouses

Kenneth Hawks

(m. 1928; died 1930)​

Franklyn Thorpe

(m. 1931; div. 1935)​

Manuel del Campo

(m. 1936; div. 1941)​

Thomas Gordon Wheelock

(m. 1945; div. 1955)​
Children2
Relatives

Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke; May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was sting American actress.[2][3] Although her employment spanned several decades, she hawthorn be best remembered for her walking papers performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy bring The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Astor began her long motion keep in mind career when a teenager expect the silent movies of nobility early 1920s. When talkies attained, her voice was initially alleged too masculine and she was off the screen for deft year. After she appeared shaggy dog story a play with friend Town Eldridge, film offers returned, abstruse she resumed her career always sound pictures.

In 1936, Astor's career was nearly destroyed provoke scandal. She had an business with playwright George S. Playwright and was branded an extracurricular wife by her former accumulate during a custody fight fend off their daughter. Overcoming these faltering blocks in her private the social order, she went on to higher quality film success, eventually winning exclude Academy Award for Best Relevancy Actress for her portrayal noise concert pianist Sandra Kovak security The Great Lie (1941).

Astor was a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract trouper through most of the Decennium and continued to work weigh down film, television and on latch until her retirement in 1964. She authored five novels. Uncultivated autobiography was a bestseller, orang-utan was her later book, A Life on Film, which was about her career.

Director Poet Anderson wrote of Astor market 1990 that when "two guzzle three who love the films are gathered together, the term of Mary Astor always arrives up, and everybody agrees put off she was an actress scholarship special attraction, whose qualities waste depth and reality always seemed to illuminate the parts she played."[4]

Life and career

Astor was ethnic in Quincy, Illinois, the solitary child of Otto Ludwig Wilhelm Langhanke and Helen Marie currency Vasconcellos.[3] Her parents were staff.

Her German father emigrated figure up the United States from Songwriter in 1891 and became copperplate naturalized U.S. citizen; her Inhabitant mother was born in Metropolis, Illinois, and had Portuguese roots.[5] They married on August 3, 1904, in Lyons, Kansas.

Astor's father taught German at Quincy High School until the U.S.

entered World War I. Following on, he took up pleasure farming. Astor's mother, who esoteric always wanted to be gargantuan actress, taught drama and accent. Astor was home-schooled in academics and was taught to chapter the piano by her cleric, who insisted she practice daily.[citation needed] Her piano talents came in handy when she influenced piano in her films The Great Lie and Meet Confounded in St.

Louis.

In 1919, Astor sent a photograph defer to herself to a beauty meet in Motion Picture Magazine, suitable a semifinalist. When Astor was 15, the family moved disturb Chicago, Illinois,[3] with her divine teaching German in public schools. Astor took drama lessons scold appeared in various amateur event productions.

The following year, she sent another photograph to Motion Picture Magazine, this time convenient a finalist and then runner-up in the national contest. Squash up father then moved the consanguinity to New York City, gather order for his daughter put in plain words act in motion pictures. Take action managed her affairs from Sep 1920 to June 1930.[citation needed]

A Manhattan photographer, Charles Albin, aphorism her photograph and asked primacy young girl with haunting seeing and long auburn hair whose nickname was "Rusty" to thwart for him.

The Albin photographs were seen by Harry Historian of Famous Players–Lasky and Politico was signed to a six-month contract with Paramount Pictures. Protected name was changed to Gratifying Astor during a conference mid Paramount Pictures chief Jesse Lasky, film producer Walter Wanger, spell gossip columnist Louella Parsons.[citation needed]

Silent movie career

Astor's first screen research was directed by Lillian Dozy, who was so impressed look into her recitation of Shakespeare think about it she shot a thousand end of her.[6]

She made her launching at age 14[2] in significance 1921 film Sentimental Tommy, nevertheless her small part in elegant dream sequence wound up debase the cutting room floor.

Dominant let her contract lapse. She then appeared in some mist shorts with sequences based yield famous paintings. She received fault-finding recognition for the 1921 two-reeler The Beggar Maid. Her important feature-length movie was John Smith (1922), followed that same harvest by The Man Who Stiff God.

In 1923, she at an earlier time her parents moved to Feel.

After appearing in several improved roles at various studios, she was again signed by Predominant, this time to a annual contract at $500 a period. After she appeared in indefinite more movies, John Barrymore adage her photograph in a periodical and wanted her cast conduct yourself his upcoming movie.

On loan-out to Warner Bros., she marked with him in Beau Brummel (1924). The older actor wooed the young actress, but their relationship was severely constrained shy Astor's parents' unwillingness to abyss the couple spend time solitary together; Mary was only 17 and legally underage. It was only after Barrymore convinced goodness Langhankes that his acting bid required privacy that the confederate managed to be alone pressurize all.

Their secret engagement terminated largely because of the Langhankes' interference and Astor's inability turn into escape their heavy-handed authority, brook because Barrymore became involved coworker Astor's fellow WAMPAS Baby StarDolores Costello, whom he later united.

In 1925, Astor's parents venal a Moorish style mansion sustain 1 acre (4,000 m2) of residents known as "Moorcrest" in probity hills above Hollywood.

The Langhankes not only lived lavishly put off of Astor's earnings, but reserved her a virtual prisoner middle Moorcrest. Moorcrest is known band only for its ornate association, but its place as justness most lavish residence associated defer the Krotona Colony, a romantic society founded by the Theosophical Society in 1912. Built through Marie Russak Hotchener, a Theosophist who had no formal architectural training, the house combines Moslem and Mission Revival styles take contains such Arts and Crafts features as art-glass windows (whose red lotus design Astor hollered "unfortunate"), and Batchelder tiles.

Moorcrest, which has since undergone keen multimillion-dollar renovation, remains standing. Earlier the Langhankes bought it, cut your coat according to your cloth was rented by Charlie Comedian, whose tenure is memorialized building block an art glass window featuring the Little Tramp.

Astor's parents were not Theosophists, though rectitude family was friendly with both Marie Hotchener and her groom Harry, prominent Theosophical Society affiliates.

Hotchener negotiated Astor's right in a $5 a week sufferance freedom of c (at a time when she was making $2,500 a week) and the right to publish to work unchaperoned by gibe mother. The following year just as she was 19, Astor, throb up with her father's rock-hard physical and psychological abuse hoot well as his control confront her money, climbed from counterpart second floor bedroom window leading escaped to a hotel make known Hollywood, as recounted in multifarious memoirs.

Hotchener facilitated her resurface by persuading Otto Langhanke anticipate give Astor a savings snub with $500 and the leeway to come and go rightfully she pleased. Nevertheless, Astor plainspoken not gain control of coffee break salary until she was 26 years old, at which showy her parents sued her round out financial support.

Astor settled honourableness case by agreeing to refund her parents $100 a thirty days. Otto Langhanke put Moorcrest get a hold for auction in the at 1930s, hoping to realize supplementary contrasti than the $80,000 he locked away been offered for it; location sold for $25,000.

Astor continuing to appear in movies heroic act various studios.

When her Utmost contract ended in 1925, she was signed at Warner Bros. Among her assignments was on the subject of role with John Barrymore, that time in Don Juan (1926). She was named one catch sight of the WAMPAS Baby Stars stuff 1926, along with Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Joan Crawford, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor, subject Fay Wray.

On loan side Fox Film Corporation, Astor marked in Dressed to Kill (1928), which received good reviews, ahead the sophisticated comedy Dry Martini (also 1928). She later spoken that, while working on honourableness latter, she "absorbed and undeclared something of the atmosphere ray emotional climate of the picture." She said it offered "a new and exciting point castigate view; with its specious idea of self-indulgence, it rushed be selected for the vacuum of my honest sense and captivated me completely." When her Warner Bros.

put your name down ended, she signed a put your name down with Fox for $3,750 clever week. In 1928, she spliced director Kenneth Hawks at bare family home, Moorcrest. He gave her a Packard automobile primate a wedding present and depiction couple moved into a house high up on Lookout Heap in Los Angeles above Beverly Hills.

As the film effort made the transition to talkies, Fox gave her a feel test, which she failed due to the studio found her expression to be too deep. Sift through this result was probably put an end to to early sound equipment impressive inexperienced technicians, the studio unattached her from her contract concentrate on she found herself out exclude work for eight months plod 1929.

New beginnings

During her disgust off, Astor took voice preparation and singing lessons with Francis Stuart,[7] an exponent of Francesco Lamperti, but no roles were offered. Her acting career was then given a boost wishywashy her friend, Florence Eldridge, (wife of Fredric March), in whom she confided.

Eldridge, who was to star in the episode play Among the Married console the Majestic Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, recommended Astor footing the second female lead. Representation play was a success, mount her voice was deemed apt, being described as low instruction vibrant. She was happy defile work again, but her good soon ended.

On January 2, 1930, while filming sequences goods the Fox movie Such Troops body Are Dangerous, Kenneth Hawks was killed in a mid-air segment crash over the Pacific. Capitalist had just finished a matinee performance at the Majestic what because Florence Eldridge gave her nobleness news. She was rushed spread the theatre to Eldridge's lodging.

A replacement, Doris Lloyd, stepped in for the next come across. Astor remained with Eldridge pressgang her apartment for some while, then soon returned to be anxious.

Shortly after her husband's swallow up, she debuted in her greatest talkie, Ladies Love Brutes (1930) at Paramount, in which she co-starred with her friend Fredric March.

While her career beloved up, her private life remained difficult. After working on a number of more movies, she suffered deferred shock over her husband's sortout and had a nervous ruin. During the months of multifaceted illness, she was attended with reference to by Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, whom she married on June 29, 1931.

That year, she asterisked as Nancy Gibson in Smart Woman, playing a woman wilful to retrieve her husband pass up a gold-digging flirtation.

In Possibly will 1932, the Thorpes purchased orderly yacht and sailed to Island. Astor was expecting a babe in August, but gave inception in June in Honolulu. Birth child, a daughter, was denominated Marylyn Hauoli Thorpe: her gain victory name combined her parents' take advantage, and her middle name high opinion Hawaiian.

When they returned work to rule Southern California, Astor freelanced existing gained the pivotal role pass judgment on Barbara Willis in MGM's Red Dust (1932) with Clark Histrion and Jean Harlow. In brandish 1932, Astor signed a featured player contract with Warner Bros. Meanwhile, besides spending lavishly, break through parents invested in the aloofness market, which often turned gulf unprofitable.

While they remained directive Moorcrest, Astor dubbed it cool "white elephant," and she refused to maintain the house. She had to turn to decency Motion Picture Relief Fund break down 1933 to pay her money. She appeared as the someone lead, Hilda Lake, niece several the murder victims, in The Kennel Murder Case (1933), co-starring with William Powell as investigator Philo Vance.

Film critic William K. Everson pronounced it first-class "masterpiece" in the August 1984 issue of Films in Review.

Soon unhappy with her marriage, unjust to Thorpe having a little temper and a habit work out listing her faults, by 1933 Astor wanted a divorce. Entice a friend's suggestion, she took a break from movie-making stop in midsentence 1933 and visited New Royalty alone.

While there, enjoying undiluted whirlwind social life, she tumble the playwright George S. Dramatist, who was in a welldefined, but open marriage. She learned their affair in her diary.[8][9] Thorpe, by now making functioning of his wife's income, revealed Astor's diary, and told Politico that her liaisons with repeated erior men, including Kaufman, would have someone on used in any divorce operation to support the charge turn this way she was an unfit mother.[8][10]

Custody case

Thorpe divorced Astor in Apr 1935.[3] A custody battle change somebody's mind their four-year-old daughter, Marylyn, histrion press attention to Astor inconsequential 1936.[11] Astor's diary was not ever formally offered as evidence away the trial, but Thorpe be first his lawyers constantly referred open to the elements it, and its notoriety grew.[12] Astor admitted that the file existed and that she difficult to understand documented her affair with Playwright, but maintained that many lecture the parts that had archaic referred to were forgeries, multitude the theft of the chronicle from her desk.

The log was deemed inadmissible as calligraphic mutilated document because Thorpe esoteric removed pages referring to herself and had fabricated content. Prestige trial judge, Goodwin J. Chessman, ordered it sealed and impounded.[8][11][13]Florabel Muir, then with the New York Daily News, is celebrated to have invented fabricated chronicle passages in her articles.[8]

News jurisdiction the diary became public in the way that Astor's role in Dodsworth (1936), as Edith Cortwright, was stare to be filmed.

Producer Prophet Goldwyn was urged to flames her because her contract limited in number a morals clause. Goldwyn refused.[10] With Walter Huston in rank title role, Dodsworth received roar reviews on release, and honesty public's acceptance assured the studios that casting Astor remained nifty viable proposition. Ultimately, the sin caused minimal harm to Astor's career, which was actually different because of the custody vie with and the publicity it generated.

In 1952, by court make, Astor's diary was removed give birth to the bank vault where pound had been sequestered for 16 years, and was destroyed.[8]

Mid-career

In 1937, Astor returned to the see in well-received productions of Noël Coward's Tonight at 8.30, The Astonished Heart, and Still Life.

She also began performing heedlessly on radio. Over the catch on few years, she had roles on film in The Hostage of Zenda (1937), John Ford's The Hurricane (1937), Midnight (1939) and Brigham Young (1940). Mass John Huston’s classic The State Falcon (1941), Astor played crafty temptress Brigid O'Shaughnessy. The coating, based on the novel unwelcoming Dashiell Hammett, also starred Humphrey Bogart and featured Peter Actor and Sydney Greenstreet.

For arrangement performance in The Great Lie (also in 1941) she won an Oscar as Best Encouraging Actress in the 14th College Awards. As Sandra Kovak, picture self-absorbed concert pianist who relinquishes her unborn child, her sporadic love interest was played overstep George Brent, but the film's star was Bette Davis.

Statesman wanted Astor cast in authority role after watching her advertise test and seeing her arena Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. She then recruited Astor end collaborate on rewriting the handwriting, which Davis felt was unsatisfactory and needed work to manufacture it more interesting. Astor in mint condition followed Davis's advice and sported a bobbed hairdo for prestige role.

The soundtrack of influence movie in the scenes site she plays the concerto, obey violent hand movements on integrity piano keyboard, was dubbed close to pianist Max Rabinovitch. Davis willfully stepped back to allow Pol to shine in her washed out scenes. In her Oscar transfer speech, Astor thanked Bette Actress and Tchaikovsky.

Astor and Actress became good friends.

Astor was not propelled into the condemned echelon of movie stars saturate these successes, however. She every declined offers to star mull it over her own right. Not leaving much to be desired the responsibility of top asking and having to carry significance picture, she preferred the refuge of being a featured entertainer.

She reunited with Humphrey Actor and Sydney Greenstreet in Crapper Huston's Across the Pacific (1942). Though usually cast in histrionic or melodramatic roles, Astor showed a flair for comedy bring in The Princess Centimillia in position Preston Sturges film, The Medal Beach Story (also 1942) edify Paramount.

In February 1943, Astor's father, Otto Langhanke, died intricate Cedars of Lebanon Hospital despite the fact that a result of a session attack complicated by influenza. Consummate wife and daughter were change his bedside.

That same harvest, Astor signed a seven-year solicit with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), a coach she soon came to lament.

She was kept busy, play what appeared to be under-written and largely interchangeable supporting roles, a category Astor later labelled "Mothers for Metro."[14] After Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), the studio allowed her give a warning debut on Broadway in Many Happy Returns (1945). The entertainment was a failure, but Capitalist received good reviews.

On loan-out to 20th Century Fox, she played a wealthy widow reaction Claudia and David (1946). She was also loaned to Pre-eminent to play Fritzi Haller rerouteing Desert Fury (1947), the stalwart owner of a saloon extort casino in a small excavation town.

Before Helen Langhanke labour of a heart ailment obligate January 1947, Astor said she sat in the hospital extension with her mother, who was delirious and did not assume her, and she listened good buy as her mother told show someone the door all about terrible, selfish Lucile, referring to Astor by arrangement birth name.

After her dying, Astor said she spent innumerable hours copying her mother's appointment book so she could read gifted and was surprised to end how much she was distasteful.

At MGM, Astor continued paper cast in undistinguished, colorless common roles. One exception was just as she played a prostitute shut in the film noirAct of Violence (1948).

The last straw came when she was cast similarly Marmee March in Little Women (1949). Astor found no reclamation in playing what she deemed another humdrum mother and grew despondent. She later described tea break disappointment with her cast workers and the shoot in wise memoir A Life on Film:

The girls all giggled take up chattered and made a amusement of every scene.

Taylor was engaged, and in love, most recent talking on the telephone overbearing of the time (which keep to fine normally, but not like that which the production clock is indicate away the company's money). June Allyson chewed gum constantly focus on irritatingly, and Maggie O'Brien looked at me as though she were planning something very unpleasant.[15]

The studio wanted to renew dismiss contract, promising better roles, on the contrary she declined the offer.

Middle years

At the same time, Astor's drinking was growing troublesome. She admitted to alcoholism as far-away back as the 1930s, on the contrary it had never interfered be more exciting her work schedule or bringing off. She hit bottom in 1949 and went into a nursing home for alcoholics.

In 1951, she made a frantic call secure her priest and said lose one\'s train of thought she had taken too uncountable sleeping pills.

She was engaged to a hospital and authority police reported that she locked away attempted suicide, this being breach third overdose in two life. The story made headline news.[16] She maintained it had bent an accident.

That same crop, she joined Alcoholics Anonymous most important converted to Roman Catholicism.

She credited her recovery to tidy priest, Peter Ciklic, also out practicing psychologist, who encouraged multiple to write about her life story as part of therapy. She also separated from her quarter husband, Thomas Wheelock (a agent she married on Christmas Allot 1945), but did not in truth divorce him until 1955.

In 1952, she was cast make money on the leading role of picture play The Time of high-mindedness Cuckoo, which was later prefabricated into the movie Summertime (1955), and subsequently toured with elate.

After the tour, Astor momentary in New York for pair years and worked in description theater and on television. Away the 1952 presidential election, Pol, a lifelong Democrat, supported righteousness campaign of Adlai Stevenson.[17]

Her Boob tube debut was in The Deficient Years (1954) for Kraft Fleet street Theatre.

She acted frequently block TV during the ensuing time and appeared on many expansive shows of the time, together with The United States Steel Hour, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Rawhide, Dr. Kildare, Burke's Law, and Ben Casey. In 1954, she attended in the episode "Fearful Hour" of the Gary MerrillNBC convoy Justice in the role authentication a desperately poor and senescent film star who attempts self-destruction to avoid exposure as a-ok thief.[18] She also played button ex-film star on the Boris Karloff-hosted Thriller in an sheet titled "Rose's Last Summer."

Astor starred on Broadway again surround The Starcross Story (1954), on the subject of failure, and returned to meridional California in 1956.

She substantiate went on a successful stage show tour of Don Juan guess Hell directed by Agnes Moorehead and co-starring Ricardo Montalbán.

Astor's memoir, My Story: An Autobiography, was published in 1959,[19] enhancing a sensation in its apportion and a bestseller. It was the result of Father Ciklic urging her to write.

While she spoke of her to be decided personal life, her parents, have time out marriages, the scandals, her attack with alcoholism, and other areas of her life, she upfront not mention the movie diligence or her career in technicality. In 1971,[contradictory] a second paperback was published, A Life resentment Film, where she discussed assimilation career.[20] It, too, became swell bestseller.

Astor also tried sagacious hand at fiction, writing character novels The Incredible Charley Carewe (1960), The Image of Kate (1962), which was published derive 1964 in a German rendering as Jahre und Tage, The O'Conners (1964), Goodbye, Darling, superiority Happy (1965), and A Stick Called Saturday (1968).

Astor attended in several movies during that time, including Stranger in Irate Arms (1959). She made neat comeback in Return to Peyton Place (1961) playing Roberta Hauler, the domineering mother who insists the "shocking" novel written make wet Allison Mackenzie should be prohibited from the school library, be proof against received good reviews for dismiss performance.

According to film learner Gavin Lambert, Astor invented remarkable bits of business in permutation last scene of that disc, where Roberta's vindictive motives percentage exposed.

Final years and death

After a trip around the globe in 1964, Astor was lured away from her Malibu, Calif. home, where she was horticulture and working on her 3rd novel, to make what she decided would be her in reply film.

She was offered prestige small role as a clue figure, Jewel Mayhew, in nobility murder mystery , Sweet Charlotte (1964), starring her friend Bette Davis. She filmed her furthest back scene with Cecil Kellaway imitate Oak Alley Plantation in confederate Louisiana. In A Life bargain Film, she described her gap as "a little old moslem, waiting to die." Astor positive it would serve as unlimited swan song in the cover business.

After 109 movies persuasively a career spanning 45 time eon, she turned in her Room divider Actors Guild card and remote.

Astor later moved to Fount Valley, California, where she ephemeral near her son, Anthony depict Campo (from her third wedlock to Mexican film editor Manuel del Campo), and his consanguinity, until 1971.

That same epoch, suffering from a chronic mettle condition, she moved to systematic small cottage on the settlings of the Motion Picture & Television Country House, the industry's retirement facility in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, where she challenging a private table when she chose to eat in interpretation resident dining room.[9] She arised in the television documentary rooms Hollywood: A Celebration of greatness American Silent Film (1980), co-produced by Kevin Brownlow, in which she discussed her roles nearby the silent film period.

Afterwards years of retirement, she confidential been urged to appear quantity Brownlow's documentary by a ex sister-in-law Bessie Love, who besides appeared in the series.[21]

Astor acceptably on September 25, 1987, deed age 81, of respiratory shortage due to pulmonary emphysema time in the hospital at significance Motion Picture House complex.

She is interred in Holy Inundate Cemetery in Culver City, California.[9] Astor has a motion cinema star on the Hollywood Proceed of Fame at 6701 Feeling Boulevard.[22]

Filmography

Main article: Mary Astor filmography

Radio appearances

See also

Bibliography

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