Mary Astor, whose piercing eyes and finely honed features made her a star to one generation of Americans and whose portrayals of mature but flawed women kept her popular with another, died Friday at ...

Kelcie Mattson is a Senior Features author at Collider. Based in the Midwest, she also contributes Lists, reviews, and television recaps. A lifelong fan of niche sci-fi, epic fantasy, Final Girl ...

Toward the end of his adoring tribute to Mary Astor, the villainess star of The Maltese Falcon, the famous cartoonist Edward Sorel explains his half-century infatuation with Mary as just another odd ...

"Bare Excerpts of Mary Astor's 'Lavender Diary,'" screamed a headline. Another: "Astor's Sensations Scare Film Moguls." This was the sex scandal that fascinated and titillated the nation 80 years ago ...

Most of us have done it. We’ve pulled up a floor covering — linoleum or vinyl in the kitchen, or maybe some old wall-to-wall — and discovered some horror underneath. Edward Sorel did it in an ...

Edward Sorel has illustrated book and magazine covers, authored several books, as well as contributed cartoons to the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and Vanity Fair. His most recent book, Mary Astor’s ...

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 ...

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. But the late ...

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 ...

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'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, love, ...