In 1936, Mary Astor, star of The Maltese Falcon (1941), was the center of a Hollywood scandal so big, it knocked news of Hitler off the front page. Her estranged husband stole her private diaries ...

A 14-year-old Lucile caught the eye of big-time movie producer Jesse L. Lasky, who bestowed on her the more marquee-friendly name Mary Astor and began to cast her in the pictures beginning in 1921.

It was a diary, written by Mary Astor, a classically beautiful movie star and Columbia Pictures contract player embroiled in a battle for custody of her 2½-year-old daughter. Astor’s estranged ...

We’ve pulled up a floor covering — linoleum or vinyl in the kitchen, or maybe some old wall-to-wall — and ... sensational story of film actress Mary Astor’s sex life.

But your book’s title is more than just a play on an old movie title. What was the great lie about Astor? Many lies have been told about Mary Astor. She never abandoned her parents to poverty.

In 1936, actress Mary Astor (who had not yet made her most famous film, The Maltese Falcon) and her husband went to court to fight for custody of their 4-year-old daughter. The trial made ...

Mary Astor’s Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936, his answer is twofold. Accidental discovery of old newspapers about his beloved and admiration of her work. A struggling 36 ...

Mary Astor is probably most famous for playing the slippery femme fatale Brigid O’Shaughnessy opposite Humphrey Bogart’s hardened detective Sam Spade in the 1941 noir classic The Maltese Falcon.

Mary Astor's Purple Diary is a musical fairy tale ... It takes a whole gaggle of Old Hollywood names, Broadway playwrights, and half of the Algonquin Round Table to answer the question: "Why ...

On Oct. 3, 1941, Warner Bros. premiered the thriller starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor. By THR Staff On Oct. 3, 1941, Warner Bros. premiered thriller The Maltese Falcon, starring Humphrey ...