I still wear makeup; my one vanity.” Marilyn Thorpe was born on June 16, 1932 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA as Marylyn Hauoli Thorpe.
It was what it was—no more no less.
Otto Langhanke put Moorcrest up for auction in the early 1930s, hoping to realize more than the $80,000 he had been offered for it; it sold for $25,000. I imitated some actresses and Daddy would always ask me, “What/who are you being now”? I was her “shadow” for years. I know she ‘loved’ me in her own way and I loved my mother but, as I said, I was usually afraid of her. She always declined offers of starring in her own right. If I were my own mother I could never have put up with myself.
I'll never forget the first time I saw Mary Astor opposite Barrymore in "Beau Brummel," 1924. And today, “It’s supposed to be exciting being a movie-star’s daughter. While her career spanned several decades, Astor may be best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941). Marie Hotchener negotiated Astor's right to a $5 a week allowance (at a time when she was making $2,500 a week) and the right to go to work unchaperoned by her mother. “An ‘attention getter’. She was taken to a hospital and the police reported that she had attempted suicide, this being her third overdose in two years, and the story made headline news. Mary Astor was born, Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke, on May 3, 1906 in Quincy, Illinois to a German immigrant father, Otto Ludwig Langhanke, and an American mother from Illinois, Helen Marie Vasconcellos, of Portuguese and Irish ancestry. The Albin photographs were seen by Harry Durant of After appearing in several larger roles at various studios, she was again signed by Paramount, this time to a one-year contract at $500 a week. When her Paramount contract ended in 1925, she was signed at Warner Bros. I was such a little ‘actress’ when I was kid. The following year when she was 19, Astor, fed up with her father's constant physical and psychological abuse as well as his control of her money, climbed from her second floor bedroom window and escaped to a hotel in Hollywood, as recounted in her memoirs. Astor had an affair with playwright Astor's father taught German at Quincy High School until the U.S. entered In 1919, Astor sent a photograph of herself to a beauty contest in A Manhattan photographer, Charles Albin, saw her photograph and asked the young girl with haunting eyes and long auburn hair, whose nickname was "Rusty", to pose for him. I always laugh when I say that, because I care so little for that kind of life. Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the In 1936, her career was nearly destroyed by scandal. Astor was not propelled into the upper echelon of movie stars by these successes, however. Mary Astor's detailed technical description of kissing Clark Gable on the set of "Red Dust" might be the best film writing from a working actress I have ever read. She admitted to In 1951, she made a frantic call to her doctor and said that she had taken too many sleeping pills. During World War II, she helped the American forces in France. I’m a practical, no-frills, no BS lady. At the same time, Astor's drinking was growing troublesome. Astor continued to appear in movies at various studios.
She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of concert pianist Sandra Kovak in The Great Lie (1941). She reunited with That same year, Astor signed a seven-year contract with The girls all giggled and chattered and made a game of every scene. In 1952, she was cast in the leading role of the stage play She appeared in several movies during this time, including After a trip around the world in 1964, Astor was lured away from her The studio wanted to renew her contract, promising better roles, but she declined the offer. 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. Kaufman, then … I use ‘being’ now with my great-grandkids.” And today, “It’s supposed to be exciting being a movie-star’s daughter.
Davis deliberately stepped back to allow Astor to shine in her key scenes.