Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 - September 25 ... Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. She eventually made a successful transition to talkies ...

4. 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 ...

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 ...

Mary Astor is best remembered for her role as the treacherous Brigid O’Shaughnessy in “The Maltese Falcon,” the classic detective movie brimming with intrigue and twists and turns.

Mary Astor, whose piercing eyes and finely honed ... of independence from not only the parents who had pushed her into movies but from four unhappy marriages and alcohol, she discovered her ...

Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy in "The Blind Side," Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in “Aliens," and Mary Astor as Anna Smith ... even the baddest moms in movie history.

S. KAUFMAN TRYST BARED. I began putting the pages in order. In 1936, Mary Astor was only a featured player in movies, but enough of a star to make headlines when it came out that George S.