ACTOR

Mary Astor

1906 - 1987

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Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke, better known professionally as Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987), was an American actress. Although her career spanned several decades, she may be best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941). Astor began her long motion picture career when a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Astor has received more than 2,965,052 page views. Her biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Mary Astor is the 1,817th most popular actor (down from 1,628th in 2019), the 2,989th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,786th in 2019) and the 835th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Mary Astor ranks 1,817 out of 13,578. Before her are Georges Wilson, Jensen Ackles, Jacqueline Andere, Peg Entwistle, Stuart Whitman, and Joel Grey. After her are Barbara Valentin, Donald O'Connor, Marcia Gay Harden, Raymond Burr, Peter Lawford, and Peter Vaughan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Mary Astor ranks 128. Before her are Jean Dieudonné, Philippe Halsman, Pierre Fournier, Gabriel Ramanantsoa, Antal Doráti, and Jørgen Juve. After her are Franz Waxman, Shigemaru Takenokoshi, Tekla Juniewicz, Alec Issigonis, Zinka Milanov, and J. R. Jayewardene. Among people deceased in 1987, Mary Astor ranks 95. Before her are Alejandro Scopelli, Yves Allégret, Morton Feldman, Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, Renato Guttuso, and Zeca Afonso. After her are R. Budd Dwyer, Claudio Villa, Will Sampson, Alessandro Blasetti, Bertrand de Jouvenel, and Clarence Brown.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Astor ranks 2,989 out of 20,380. Before her are Roderick MacKinnon (1956), Stuart Whitman (1928), Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903), Joel Grey (1932), Alfred Newman (1900), and Ronald Inglehart (1934). After her are Charles M. Schulz (1922), Jeff Porcaro (1954), Gordon Cooper (1927), Donald O'Connor (1925), Marcia Gay Harden (1959), and Hannibal Hamlin (1809).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Mary Astor ranks 835. Before her are Katherine MacGregor (1925), Bruce Campbell (1958), Joe Turkel (1927), Jensen Ackles (1978), Stuart Whitman (1928), and Joel Grey (1932). After her are Donald O'Connor (1925), Marcia Gay Harden (1959), Claude Akins (1926), Matthew Modine (1959), Abe Vigoda (1921), and Sydne Rome (1951).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Maltese Falcon
Brigid O'Shaughnessy
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
Oct 18o 19417.709 / 10
Meet Me in St. Louis
Anna Smith
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Nov 28o 19447.015 / 10
The Palm Beach Story
The Princess Centimillia
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
Aug 28o 19427 / 10