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. He
Her best-known silent appearances were as the visiting stage star in Stage Struck (1925) with Gloria Swanson, as the vamp who plants stolen money on Harry Langdon in The Strong Man (1926), and as Laura LaPlante's wisecracking travelling companion in The Cat and the Canary (1927).
Astor worked prolifically at Hal Roach studios with such headliners as Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, and especially Charley Chase. She was also kept busy at Columbia Pictures' short subjects unit.
She continued to play bits in feature films throughout the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. She was briefly glimpsed as the first murder victim in the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Scarlet Claw and was among the ranks of dress extras in 1956's Around the World in Eighty Days. Her last appearance was in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
In her later years, Astor was a welcome guest at several Sons of the Desert gatherings, and became an honorary member of the Way Out West tent.
She died in Woodland Hills, California from a stroke. She is interred in the Abbey of Psalms in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, CA.
Born
Nov 09, 1887
Lakewood, Ohio, USA
Died
Nov 09, 1977
Known For
Acting
Movies
223 acting
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Popularity
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Known For
The Sound of Music
1965
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Sunset Boulevard
1950
as Courtier (uncredited)
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
as Extra (uncredited)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
as Townswoman (uncredited)
All About Eve
1950
as Sarah Siddons Awards Guest (uncredited)
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
A Star Is Born
1954
as Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
The Wolf Man
1941
as Townswoman (uncredited)
A Place in the Sun
1951
as Bit Part (uncredited)
The Horse Soldiers
1959
as Townswoman (uncredited)
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