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, ...

Mary Elizabeth Astor Services will be held Tuesday, for Mary Elizabeth Astor, who passed away Nov. 18, 2004 in Fortuna at the age of 80. She was a resident of Fortuna. A life long resident of ...

Regarded as one of the greatest musicals made, “Meet Me in St. Louis,” starring Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer and Tom Drake and directed by Vincente Minnelli, premiered in ...

The actress Mary Astor (1906-87) is likely best remembered for her performance as the shifty client of Sam Spade in director John Huston’s adaptation of Dashiel Hammett’s “The Maltese Falcon” (1941).

Elderly Hollywood breathed a little easier. By court order, the torch had been put to Actress Mary Astor’s famed “Purple Diary,” introduced by her then husband Dr. Franklyn Thorpe in his 1936 suit for ...