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.

Many movie lovers know actress Mary Astor for her role in the 1941 Warner Bros. film, "The Maltese Falcon," but even those who have followed her work may not know the details of the scandal that ...

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Mary Astor's Purple Diary is a musical fairy tale for adults, inspired by Ed Sorel's best-selling book of the same name.It's a fizzy little cocktail of a musical about a Hollywood sex scandal ...

Astor was born May 3, 1906, in Quincy, Ill. Her German immigrant father, Otto Langhanke, decided that his daughter would be a star. On this quest, he moved the family to Chicago and then, in 1920 ...

At age 87, he has published “Mary Astor’s Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Story of 1936,” illustrated with 50 hilarious caricatures. It was worth the wait.

Mary Astor is best known today as the femme fatale in the Humphrey Bogart noir classic, "The Maltese Falcon," but four years before she stepped onto the soundstage with Bogart her career almost ...