Gertrude Astor
2 credits on HibingeTV
American actress, born in 1887. She began as a saxophonist in a touring band before moving into films at Universal and then MGM. A tall, striking supporting player, she appeared in The Strong Man (1926) with Harry Langdon and in The Cat and the Canary (1927). She worked steadily through the 1920s and into sound in comic and character roles. She died in 1977.
Acted In
Drama, Silent
A Kentucky horse breeder of the old school loses his fortune at the card table and pins everything on a colt that breaks down in the Futurity, then watches years later as the colt's offspring carries the hopes of his family and his trainer. John Ford directed this gentle Fox silent, one of his lesser-known works, with Henry B. Walthall as the breeder and J. Farrell MacDonald as the loyal trainer. Several real thoroughbreds appear, including the legendary Man o' War. As a work published before 1930, the film is in the public domain in the United States.
Drama · Silent
Kentucky Pride
1925 - as Mrs. Beaumont
Comedy, Silent
Frank Capra's feature directorial debut is a silent comedy built around the gentle, elfin persona of Harry Langdon. A meek Belgian soldier carries a letter and photograph from an American girl named Mary Brown through the trenches of World War I. After the war he travels to America to find her, falling in with a strongman act along the way. Langdon's comedy is the opposite of Keaton's athleticism or Chaplin's sentiment: he plays a bewildered innocent who survives by accident, and Capra's staging lets the slow burns land. The film was selected for the National Film Registry in 2007. It is now regarded as one of the finest silent comedies of the late 1920s. The film entered the public domain in the United States in 2022.
Comedy · Silent
The Strong Man
1926 - as Lily of Broadway