Gertrude Astor

Personal Info

Birthday

November 9, 1887

Day of Death

1977-11-09

(90 years old)

Place of Birth

Lakewood, Ohio, USA

Also Known As

Gertrude Aster

Gertrude Irene Eyster

Gertrude Astor

Biography

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.

Known For

I Love Lucy

The Sound of Music

Hollywood

Sunset Boulevard

The Wolf Man

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Leave Her to Heaven

All About Eve

Filmography

1966
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
as Townswoman
1965
The Sound of Music
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1964
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
as Denver Party Guest (uncredited)
1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Townswoman (uncredited)
1961
The Devil's Hand
as The Elderly Cultist
Two Rode Together
as Mrs. Wringle (uncredited)
All in a Night's Work
as Customer (uncredited)
1960
Sergeant Rutledge
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
1959
The Best of Everything
as Leading Woman in Play (uncredited)
The Tingler
as Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
The Horse Soldiers
as Townswoman (uncredited)
1958
The Female Animal
as Actress on Movie Set (uncredited)
1957
My Man Godfrey
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1956
Around the World in Eighty Days
as Extra (uncredited)
1955
The Virgin Queen
as Lady-in-Waiting - 2nd Group
Wichita
as Saloon Madam (uncredited)
Daddy Long Legs
as Art Gallery Patron (uncredited)
1954
Deep in My Heart
as Dorothy's Nurse (uncredited)
A Star Is Born
as Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
1953
Scared Stiff
as Man with Spaghetti's Wife (uncredited)
Angel Face
as Matron (uncredited)
1952
The Old West
as Townswoman (uncredited)
The Merry Widow
as Reception Guest (uncredited)
Paula
as Mrs. Brown (uncredited)
Fort Osage
as Townswoman (uncredited)
Scandal Sheet
as Neighbor (uncredited)
1951
Thunder on the Hill
as Village Woman (uncredited)
When Worlds Collide
as Traveler (uncredited)
A Place in the Sun
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Apache Drums
as Townswoman (uncredited)
1950
All About Eve
as Sarah Siddons Awards Guest (uncredited)
Again Pioneers
as Mrs. Jans
Bunco Squad
as Club Patron (uncredited)
Sunset Boulevard
as Courtier (uncredited)
Caged
as Inmate (uncredited)
Woman in Hiding
as Woman in Drugstore (uncredited)
1949
The File on Thelma Jordon
as Juror (Uncredited)
The Doolins of Oklahoma
as Saloon Girl (uncredited)
1948
3 Godfathers
as Saloon Girl (uncredited)
My Dear Secretary
as Miss Gee (uncredited)
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
as Mrs. Howard
Here Comes Trouble
as Woman with Dog (uncredited)
Sitting Pretty
as Townswoman (uncredited)
1947
Monsieur Verdoux
as Garden Party Guest (uncredited)
Fun on a Weekend
as Party Guest (Uncredited)
1946
The Best Years of Our Lives
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Calcutta
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Sister Kenny
as Doctor (uncredited)
Crack-Up
as Nagging Wife on Train (Uncredited)
Dragonwyck
as Nurse (uncredited)
1945
Leave Her to Heaven
as Prison Matron (uncredited)
Dick Tracy
as Woman (uncredited)
An Angel Comes To Brooklyn
as Eva Tanguay (uncredited)
Girls of the Big House
as Railroad Matron
Swingin' on a Rainbow
as Bit Part (uncredited)
1944
The Climax
as Woman in Audience Behind Franz (Uncredited)
Weird Woman
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1943
The Kansan
as Blonde Townswoman
The Avenging Rider
as Martha
Idaho
as Party Guest
1942
Lost Canyon
as Mrs. Anson
Moontide
as Woman (uncredited)
Reap the Wild Wind
as Ball Guest (uncredited)
1941
The Wolf Man
as Townswoman (uncredited)
Hold Back the Dawn
as Young Woman in Bar (uncredited)
1940
Misbehaving Husbands
as Gossiping Friend
The Doctor Takes a Wife
as Extra (uncredited)
1939
The Llano Kid
as Saloon Hostess
$1,000 a Touchdown
as McGlen Wife (uncredited)
Dust Be My Destiny
as Dame (uncredited)
The Women
as Mud Bath Nurse (uncredited)
1938
Tassels in the Air
as Louella Pindell (uncredited)
The Big Broadcast of 1938
as Woman (uncredited)
1937
Wells Fargo
as Pioneer Woman
All Over Town
as Mamie
Easy Living
as Saleswoman (uncredited)
1936
Empty Saddles
as Eloise Hayes
Great Guy
as Party Guest (Uncredited)
Wives Never Know
as Mrs. Merchant (uncredited)
Postal Inspector
as Woman with Drumsticks (uncredited)
San Francisco
as Drunk's Girl (uncredited)
1935
I Don't Remember
as Sophie Glick
Manhattan Monkey Business
as Gwendolyn
It's in the Air
as (uncredited)
Cappy Ricks Returns
as Speaker (uncredited)
Here Comes the Band
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Honeymoon Limited
as Lady Devonshire
No More Ladies
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Border Brigands
as Big Six -Saloon Girl
The Drunkard
as Peggy
Northern Frontier
as Mae
1934
The Chases of Pimple Street
as Gertrude Astor - Lucas' Fiancee (uncredited)
Washee Ironee
as Woman at Party
I'll Take Vanilla
as Mom
Guilty Parents
as Marie
1933
Carnival Lady
as Zandra, Fortune Teller
Crook's Tour
as Mrs Dorigan
Ship of Wanted Men
as Vera
I Have Lived
as Harriet Naisson
The Plumber and the Lady
as Mrs. Otto Mauser
Wine, Women and Song
as Jennie Tilson
1932
Flaming Gold
as Escort Service Madam
Western Limited
as Mrs. Winters
High Hats and Low Brows
as Mrs. Billingsgate
They Never Come Back
as Kate
In Walked Charley
as Gertrude Henderson
Running Hollywood
as Gertrude Astor
1931
Poker Widows
as Mrs. Thomas Regan
Come Clean
as Mrs. Hardy
Hell Bound
as Rosie
1930
Live and Learn
as Mrs. Brown
Dames Ahoy
as The Blonde
Be Yourself!
as Lillian
1929
Untamed
as Mrs. Mason
Frozen Justice
as Moosehide Kate
Twin Beds
as Mrs. Solari
The Fall of Eve
as Mrs. Ford
Two Weeks Off
as Agnes
Synthetic Sin
as Sheila Kelly
1928
A Woman of Affairs
as Party Guest (uncredited)
The Butter and Egg Man
as Fanny Lehman
Five and Ten Cent Annie
as Blonde
Rose-Marie
as Wanda
The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
as Paulette
1927
Oh, What a Man!
as The Bandit
Ginsberg the Great
as Sappho
The Small Bachelor
as Fanny
Uncle Tom's Cabin
as Mrs. St. Clare (uncredited)
The Cat and the Canary
as Cecily
The Taxi Dancer
as Kitty Lane
Lightning Lariats
as Girl
1926
The Cheerful Fraud
as Rose
The Strong Man
as Lily de Broadway
The Country Beyond
as Mrs. Andrews
Tell 'Em Nothing
as Mrs. Gladstone
The Old Soak
as Sylvia De Costa
Don Juan's 3 Nights
as Baroness von Minden
The Boy Friend
as Mrs. White
Kiki
as Paulette Mascar
Wife Tamers
as Mrs. Barry
Dizzy Daddies
as A Former Flame
Behind the Front
as French barmaid
1925
Ship of Souls
as Doris Barnes
Stage Struck
as Lillian Lyons
Satan in Sables
as Dolores Sierra
Borrowed Finery
as Maisie
Kentucky Pride
as Mrs. Beaumont
The Charmer
as Bertha Sedgwick
The Reckless Sex
as Lucile Dupré
Laughing Ladies
as The Married Man's Wife
1924
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
as 'Kansas' Lou
The Silent Watcher
as Mrs. Steele
The Torrent
as The Cast-Off
Broadway or Bust
as Mrs. Dean Smythe
Secrets
as Mrs. Manwaring
1923
The Wanters
as Mrs. Van Pelt
Hollywood
as Gertrude Astor
Rupert of Hentzau
as Paula
The Ne'er-Do-Well
as Edith Cortlandt
Alice Adams
as Mildred Palmer
1922
The Ninety and Nine
as Kate Van Dyke
You Never Know
as Miriam Folansbee
The Kentucky Derby
as Helen Gordon
The Impossible Mrs. Bellew
as Alice Granville
Lorna Doone
as Countess of Brandir (uncredited)
Skin Deep
as Mrs. Carlson
Hurricane's Gal
as Phyllis Fairfield
Beyond the Rocks
as Morella Winmarleigh
Seeing's Believing
as Aunt Sue
The Wall Flower
as Pamela Shiel
1921
Her Mad Bargain
as Ruth Beresford
Through The Back Door
as Louise Reeves
The Concert
as Eva
1920
The Branding Iron
as Betty Morena
Occasionally Yours
as Mona
1919
The Wicked Darling
as Adele Hoyt
Loot
as Lady Gwendolyn
The Delicious Little Devil
as Auditioning Dancer (uncredited)
What Am I Bid?
as Diana Newlands
1918
The Brazen Beauty
as Mrs. Augusta Van Ruysdael
The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit
as Stella Carter
1917
Bucking Broadway
as Gladys (uncredited)
The Lash of Power
as Phyllis Ward
The Price of a Good Time
as Mis Schyler
Bondage
as Eugenia Darth
The Girl Who Won Out
as Mrs. Walsh
Cheyenne's Pal
as Dancehall girl
The Rescue
as Mrs. Hendricks
The Little Orphan
as Emmeline Warren
Polly Redhead
as Lady Caroline
The Scarlet Crystal
as Helen Forbes
The Devil's Pay Day
as Hazel Davidson
Bombs and Banknotes
as His Daughter
1915
Under Two Flags
as Venetia