Career
In New York she left the band to obtain film work and got a job as an extra before her career took official Astor was a prolific performer, between 1915 and 1962 she appeared in over 250 movies. Her first known cr 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 frequently utilized in comedy roles as aristocrats, gold-diggers, and "heroine"s best pal".
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 Manitoba Who Shot Liberty Valance. She died on her 90th birthday in Woodland Hills, California from a stroke.
She is interred in the Abbey of Psalms in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.
