Gertrude Astor

born: 09 November 1889* Lakewood, Ohio, United States of America

died: 09 November 1977 Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States of America (stroke, age 88)

Tall, wealthy, blonde-haired, blue-eyed American actress, the first to sign a contract with Universal in 1915. She pops up (or, on at least one occasion - OUT) occasionally in some of Charley Chase films. The 1931 Motion Picture Almanac described her as "the best dressed woman in Hollywood". She died from a stroke on her 88th birthday.

Real name: gertrude Irene Eyster Height: 5'7½" (some sources state 5'11")"

Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography.

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1925 Laughing Ladies Aubrey's wife 1926 Dizzy Daddies Former flame 1926 Wife Tamers Mrs. Barry 1926 Tell 'Em Nothing Mrs. Gladstone 1928 The Family Group Charley's wife 1928 Chasing Husbands [?] 1931 Come Clean Mrs. Hardy 1932 In Walked Charley Gertrude Henderson 1933 Crook's Tour Mrs. Dorigan 1934 I'll Take Vanilla Junior's mother 1934 Washee Ironee Woman hit in back with ice cream 1934 Bum Voyage Ship's passenger at party 1934 The Chases Of Pimple Street Gertrude Astor (Lucas' fiancee) 1935 Okay Toots! Woman on street   1935 Manhattan Monkey Business Gwendolyn, surly patron's blonde girlfriend 1936 Our Relations Pirate's Club patron   1948 Here Comes Trouble Woman with dog Acknowledgements: https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturealm00quig_0#page/n122/mode/1up (1931 Motion Picture Almanac) http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/EISTER/2004-05/1085856486 (C. David Eyster) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLN6-C36 (1910 Census) https://archive.org/stream/13thcensus1910po1151unit#page/n398/mode/1up (1910 Census) https://archive.org/stream/photoplay3133movi#page/n543/mode/1up/search/astor A news item (Apr. 1927) on Gertrude's legal name change from Eyster to Astor. http://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10025/newspaper-archive?itemId=379348760&action=showRecord (The Lima Daily News - April 11, 1916) http://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10025/newspaper-archive?itemId=551834488&action=showRecord (The Lima News - December 17, 2003) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XXM5-DPY https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XXZ2-VJD https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X67J-GFP https://archive.org/stream/pictureplaymagaz30unse#page/n112/mode/1up/search/%22gertrude+astor%22 https://archive.org/stream/pictureplaymagaz28unse#page/n248/mode/1up/search/%22gertrude+astor%22 https://archive.org/stream/photoplay3334movi#page/n230/mode/1up/search/astor https://archive.org/stream/photoplay3334movi#page/n461/mode/1up/search/astor Jesse Brisson (help and assistance; identification in Bum Voyage) This page was last updated on: 15 December 2024