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  Mary Astor  Biography Born May 3, 1906 in Quincy, Illinois, USA Died September 25, 1987 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA  (respiratory failure due to pulmonary emphysema) Birth Name Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke Nicknames The Cameo Girl Rusty Height 5' 6" (1.68 m) Mini Bio (2) 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. Her parents were very ambitious for her as they recognized Mary's beauty and knowing if they played their cards right, they could make her famous. They understood that they wanted something better for their daughter than they had, so they made it happen by pushing Mary into various beauty contests. Luck was with Mary and her parents because one contest came to the attention of Hollywood moguls who signed her at the age of 14. Her first movi...

  MARY ASTOR  AMERICAN ACTRESS BORN  MAY 3,1906 -1987 SEPTEMBER 25 Mary Astor,  born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke in 1906 was a successful American actress, best remembered for her role as Brigid O’Shaughnessy in  The Maltese Falcon  (1941). Starting out as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s Astor made a smooth transition to talkies. However her career was nearly derailed in the mid-1930s in what could be described as a case of life imitating art. But few of Astor’s films could match the turbulence of her private life.  In 1930, her first husband, Kenneth Hawks, was killed in a plane crash while directing a movie. Suffering delayed shock she had a nervous breakdown. During her recuperation she was attended to by a Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, whom she married in June 1931. At the same time her parents were consuming most of her salary, living a lavish lifestyle in stark contrast to the poverty from which they rose before Astor’s film care...

  BIOGRAPHY OF MARY ASTOR Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks. செக்ஸ் என்பது அழகான ஒன்று விரைவில் மறைந்துவிடும். செக்ஸ் என்பது அழகான , கூர்மையான கத்தி போன்றது , அதை தொட்டு விட்டால் அது நம்மை ஆழமாக காயப்படுத்தி விடும்   அது வெறும் காயங்கள் மற்றும் அசிங்கமான அடையாளங்களை விட்டுச்செல்கிறது. Biography by Hal Erickson   [-] Pressured into an acting career by her ambitious parents,  Mary Astor  was a silent film star before she was 17 -- a tribute more to her dazzling good looks than anything else. Debuting in  The Beggar Maid  (1921), Astor appeared opposite  John Barrymore  in 1923's  Beau Brummell  with whom she had a romantic relationship and later starred with in  Don Juan  (1926), Anxious not to be a victim of the talking-picture revol...