Gertrude Astor

Known For: Acting
Born: November 9, 1887
Place of Birth: Lakewood, Ohio, USA
Died: November 9, 1977

Gertrude Astor

Gertrude Astor (Born Gertrude Eyster November 9, 1887 – November 9, 1977) was an American motion picture character actress, who began her career playing trombone on a riverboat. Born in Lakewood, Ohio, Astor at the age of 12 ran off and joined a woman's band as a trombone player and toured the states. In New York she left the band to obtain film work and got a job as an extra before her career took off. Astor was a prolific performer, between 1915 and 1962 she appeared in over 250 movies. Her first known credit is in a Biograph short in 1915. She then became a contract player at Universal. A tall, angular and beautiful woman, Astor frequently towered over the leading men of the era; thus, she was most frequently utilized in comedy roles as aristocrats, golddiggers and "heroine's best pal". Her best-known silent appearances were as the visiting stage star in Stage Struck (1925) with Gl…

Filmography

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

1966 · Townswoman

My Mother the Car

1965

The Sound of Music

1965 · Party Guest (uncredited)

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

1964 · Denver Party Guest (uncredited)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

1962 · Townswoman (uncredited)

The Devil's Hand

1961 · The Elderly Cultist

Two Rode Together

1961 · Mrs. Wringle (uncredited)

All in a Night's Work

1961 · Customer (uncredited)

Sergeant Rutledge

1960 · Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

The Best of Everything

1959 · Leading Woman in Play (uncredited)

The Tingler

1959 · Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

The Horse Soldiers

1959 · Townswoman (uncredited)

The Female Animal

1958 · Actress on Movie Set (uncredited)

My Man Godfrey

1957 · Party Guest (uncredited)

Around the World in 80 Days

1956 · Extra (uncredited)

The Virgin Queen

1955 · Lady-in-Waiting - 2nd Group

Wichita

1955 · Saloon Madam (uncredited)

Daddy Long Legs

1955 · Art Gallery Patron (uncredited)

Deep in My Heart

1954 · Dorothy's Nurse (uncredited)

A Star Is Born

1954 · Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)

Scared Stiff

1953 · Man with Spaghetti's Wife (uncredited)

Angel Face

1953 · Matron (uncredited)

The Old West

1952 · Townswoman (uncredited)

The Merry Widow

1952 · Reception Guest (uncredited)

Paula

1952 · Mrs. Brown (uncredited)

Fort Osage

1952 · Townswoman (uncredited)

Scandal Sheet

1952 · Neighbor (uncredited)

Thunder on the Hill

1951 · Village Woman (uncredited)

I Love Lucy

1951 · Showgirl #4

When Worlds Collide

1951 · Traveler (uncredited)

A Place in the Sun

1951 · Bit Part (uncredited)

Apache Drums

1951 · Townswoman (uncredited)

All About Eve

1950 · Sarah Siddons Awards Guest (uncredited)

Again Pioneers

1950 · Mrs. Jans

Bunco Squad

1950 · Club Patron (uncredited)

Sunset Boulevard

1950 · Courtier (uncredited)

Caged

1950 · Inmate (uncredited)

Woman in Hiding

1950 · Woman in Drugstore (uncredited)

The File on Thelma Jordon

1949 · Juror (uncredited)

The Doolins of Oklahoma

1949 · Saloon Girl (uncredited)

3 Godfathers

1948 · Saloon Girl (uncredited)

My Dear Secretary

1948 · Miss Gee (uncredited)

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All

1948 · Mrs. Howard

Music Man

1948 · Mrs. Larkin

Here Comes Trouble

1948 · Woman with Dog (uncredited)

Sitting Pretty

1948 · Townswoman (uncredited)

Monsieur Verdoux

1947 · Garden Party Guest (uncredited)

Fun on a Weekend

1947 · Party Guest (uncredited)

The Best Years of Our Lives

1946 · Wedding Guest (uncredited)

Calcutta

1946 · Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Sister Kenny

1946 · Doctor (uncredited)

Crack-Up

1946 · Nagging Wife on Train (Uncredited)

Dragonwyck

1946 · Nurse (uncredited)

Leave Her to Heaven

1945 · Prison Matron (uncredited)

Dick Tracy

1945 · Woman (uncredited)

An Angel Comes To Brooklyn

1945 · Eva Tanguay (uncredited)

Girls of the Big House

1945 · Railroad Matron

Swingin' on a Rainbow

1945 · Bit Part (uncredited)

The Climax

1944 · Woman in Audience Behind Franz (Uncredited)

The Scarlet Claw

1944

Weird Woman

1944 · Party Guest (uncredited)

The Kansan

1943 · Blonde Townswoman

The Avenging Rider

1943 · Martha

Idaho

1943 · Party Guest

Lost Canyon

1942 · Mrs. Anson

Moontide

1942 · Woman (uncredited)

Reap the Wild Wind

1942 · Ball Guest (uncredited)

Frisco Lil

1942

The Wolf Man

1941 · Townswoman (uncredited)

Hold Back the Dawn

1941 · Young Woman in Bar (uncredited)

Misbehaving Husbands

1940 · Gossiping Friend

The Doctor Takes a Wife

1940 · Extra (uncredited)

The Llano Kid

1939 · Saloon Hostess

$1,000 a Touchdown

1939 · McGlen Wife (uncredited)

Dust Be My Destiny

1939 · Dame (uncredited)

The Women

1939 · Mud Bath Nurse (uncredited)

Tassels in the Air

1938 · Louella Pindell (uncredited)

The Big Broadcast of 1938

1938 · Woman (uncredited)

Wells Fargo

1937 · Pioneer Woman

All Over Town

1937 · Mamie

Easy Living

1937 · Saleswoman (uncredited)

Rich Relations

1937

Empty Saddles

1936 · Eloise Hayes

Great Guy

1936 · Party Guest (Uncredited)

Wives Never Know

1936 · Mrs. Merchant (uncredited)

Postal Inspector

1936 · Woman with Drumsticks (uncredited)

San Francisco

1936 · Drunk's Girl (uncredited)

I Don't Remember

I Don't Remember

1935 · Sophie Glick

Manhattan Monkey Business

1935 · Gwendolyn

Bad Boy

1935

It's in the Air

1935 · (uncredited)

Cappy Ricks Returns

Cappy Ricks Returns

1935 · Speaker (uncredited)

Here Comes the Band

1935 · Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Honeymoon Limited

1935 · Lady Devonshire

No More Ladies

1935 · Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Border Brigands

1935 · Big Six -Saloon Girl

The Drunkard

1935 · Peggy

Northern Frontier

1935 · Mae

The Chases of Pimple Street

1934 · Gertrude Astor - Lucas' Fiancee (uncredited)

Washee Ironee

1934 · Woman at Party

Wedding Belles

1934

I'll Take Vanilla

1934 · Mom

Guilty Parents

1934 · Marie

Carnival Lady

1933 · Zandra, Fortune Teller

Crook's Tour

1933 · Mrs Dorigan

Ship of Wanted Men

1933 · Vera

I Have Lived

1933 · Harriet Naisson

The Plumber and the Lady

The Plumber and the Lady

1933 · Mrs. Otto Mauser

Wine, Women and Song

1933 · Jennie Tilson

Flaming Gold

1932 · Escort Service Madam

Western Limited

Western Limited

1932 · Mrs. Winters

High Hats and Low Brows

1932 · Mrs. Billingsgate

They Never Come Back

1932 · Kate

While Paris Sleeps

1932

In Walked Charley

1932 · Gertrude Henderson

Running Hollywood

Running Hollywood

1932 · Gertrude Astor

Poker Widows

1931 · Mrs. Thomas Regan

Come Clean

1931 · Mrs. Hardy

Hell Bound

1931 · Rosie

Live and Learn

1930 · Mrs. Brown

Dames Ahoy

1930 · The Blonde

Be Yourself!

1930 · Lillian

Untamed

1929 · Mrs. Mason

Frozen Justice

1929 · Moosehide Kate

Twin Beds

1929 · Mrs. Solari

The Fall of Eve

1929 · Mrs. Ford

Two Weeks Off

1929 · Agnes

The Fatal Warning

1929

Synthetic Sin

1929 · Sheila Kelly

Chasing Husbands

1928

A Woman of Affairs

1928 · Party Guest (uncredited)

The Butter and Egg Man

1928 · Fanny Lehman

Stocks and Blondes

1928 · Goldie

Hit of the Show

1928 · Trece

Five and Ten Cent Annie

1928 · Blonde

The Family Group

1928

Rose-Marie

1928 · Wanda

The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris

1928 · Paulette

Oh, What a Man!

1927 · The Bandit

Ginsberg the Great

1927 · Sappho

The Small Bachelor

1927 · Fanny

Uncle Tom's Cabin

1927 · Mrs. St. Clare (uncredited)

The Irresistible Lover

1927 · Dolly Carleton

The Cat and the Canary

1927 · Cecily

The Taxi Dancer

1927 · Kitty Lane

Lightning Lariats

1927 · Girl

The Cheerful Fraud

1926 · Rose

The Strong Man

1926 · Lily de Broadway

Sin Cargo

1926 · Mary Wickham

The Country Beyond

1926 · Mrs. Andrews

Tell 'Em Nothing

1926 · Mrs. Gladstone

The Old Soak

1926 · Sylvia De Costa

Don Juan's 3 Nights

1926 · Baroness von Minden

The Boy Friend

1926 · Mrs. White

Kiki

1926 · Paulette Mascar

Wife Tamers

1926 · Mrs. Barry

Dizzy Daddies

1926 · A Former Flame

Behind the Front

1926 · French barmaid

Ship of Souls

1925 · Doris Barnes

Stage Struck

1925 · Lillian Lyons

Satan in Sables

1925 · Dolores Sierra

Borrowed Finery

Borrowed Finery

1925 · Maisie

The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted

1925 · Greta

Kentucky Pride

1925 · Mrs. Beaumont

Pursued

1925 · Madame La Grande

The Charmer

1925 · Bertha Sedgwick

The Verdict

1925 · Mrs. Ronsard

Folly of Youth

1925 · Evelyn Cartwright

The Reckless Sex

The Reckless Sex

1925 · Lucile Dupré

Laughing Ladies

1925 · The Married Man's Wife

Robes of Sin

1924

The Ridin' Kid from Powder River

1924 · 'Kansas' Lou

The Silent Watcher

1924 · Mrs. Steele

All's Swell on the Ocean

1924

The Torrent

1924 · The Cast-Off

Fight and Win

1924

Broadway or Bust

1924 · Mrs. Dean Smythe

Secrets

1924 · Mrs. Manwaring

The Wanters

1923 · Mrs. Van Pelt

Flaming Youth

1923 · Annie

The Six-Fifty

1923 · Christine Palmer

Hollywood

1923 · Gertrude Astor

Rupert of Hentzau

1923 · Paula

The Ne'er-Do-Well

1923 · Edith Cortlandt

Alice Adams

1923 · Mildred Palmer

The Ninety and Nine

1922 · Kate Van Dyke

You Never Know

1922 · Miriam Folansbee

The Kentucky Derby

1922 · Helen Gordon

The Impossible Mrs. Bellew

1922 · Alice Granville

Lorna Doone

1922 · Countess of Brandir (uncredited)

Skin Deep

1922 · Mrs. Carlson

Hurricane's Gal

1922 · Phyllis Fairfield

Beyond the Rocks

1922 · Morella Winmarleigh

Seeing's Believing

1922 · Aunt Sue

The Wall Flower

1922 · Pamela Shiel

Her Mad Bargain

1921 · Ruth Beresford

Through the Back Door

1921 · Louise Reeves

The Concert

1921 · Eva

The Branding Iron

1920 · Betty Morena

Occasionally Yours

1920 · Mona

Burning Daylight

1920 · Lucille

The Lion Man

1919 · Celeste La Rue

The Wicked Darling

1919 · Adele Hoyt

Loot

1919 · Lady Gwendolyn

Pretty Smooth

1919 · Mrs. Hanson

The Delicious Little Devil

1919 · Auditioning Dancer (uncredited)

What Am I Bid?

1919 · Diana Newlands

The Brazen Beauty

1918 · Mrs. Augusta Van Ruysdael

The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit

1918 · Stella Carter

Vamping the Vamp

Vamping the Vamp

1918 · Thedeska - The Vamp

Bucking Broadway

1917 · Gladys (uncredited)

The Lash of Power

1917 · Phyllis Ward

The Price of a Good Time

1917 · Mis Schyler

Bondage

1917 · Eugenia Darth

The Girl Who Won Out

1917 · Mrs. Walsh

Cheyenne's Pal

1917 · Dancehall girl

The Rescue

1917 · Mrs. Hendricks

The Gray Ghost

1917 · Lady Gwendolyn

The Little Orphan

1917 · Emmeline Warren

Polly Redhead

1917 · Lady Caroline

The Scarlet Crystal

1917 · Helen Forbes

The Devil's Pay Day

1917 · Hazel Davidson

Bombs and Banknotes

Bombs and Banknotes

1917 · His Daughter

Under Two Flags

1915 · Venetia

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