Born in Blessing Hospital in Quincy on May 3, 1906, Lucile Langhanke was the only child of Otto Langhanke and Helen Vasconcells Langhanke. Emigrating from Germany in 1890, Otto eventually lived with ...

Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 - September 25, 1987) was an American actress. Most remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941) with Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long ...

The actress Mary Astor (1906-87) is likely best remembered for her performance as the shifty client of Sam Spade in director John Huston’s adaptation of Dashiel Hammett’s “The Maltese Falcon” (1941).

Regarded as one of the greatest musicals made, “Meet Me in St. Louis,” starring Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer and Tom Drake and directed by Vincente Minnelli, premiered in ...

Elderly Hollywood breathed a little easier. By court order, the torch had been put to Actress Mary Astor’s famed “Purple Diary,” introduced by her then husband Dr. Franklyn Thorpe in his 1936 suit for ...