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Mary Astor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3672 words) |
 | Astor had just finished a matinee performance at the Majestic and was lying down on a couch that was part of the set of the play when Florence Eldridge came to her on stage with the news. |
| Astor is probably most-famous for her role as Brigid O'Shaunessy, the scheming temptress who murders Sam Spade's partner, in John Huston's The Maltese Falcon (1941) opposite Humphrey Bogart, with Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet. |
| Astor also tried her hand at fiction, writing the novels The Incredible Charley Carewe (1960); The Image of Kate (1962); The O'Conners (1964); Jahre und Tage (1964) (a German translation of The Image of Kate); Goodbye, Darling, be Happy (1965); and A Place Called Saturday (1968). |
| John Jacob Astor - definition of John Jacob Astor in Encyclopedia (501 words) |
| Astor arrived in the United States in 1784 just after the end of the Revolutionary War. |
| Astor took advantage of a treaty called Jay's Treaty between Britain and the United States in 1794 which opened new markets in Canada and the Great Lakes region at the expense of the Canadians. |
| Astor was given permission to trade in ports monopolized by the British East India Company, and greatly benefited from the fur trade with China. |
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