{"id":24960,"date":"2010-07-26T08:47:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T12:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=24960"},"modified":"2010-07-26T09:31:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T13:31:45","slug":"mary-astor-mary-astor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=24960","title":{"rendered":"Mary Astor Mary Astor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?attachment_id=24965\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24965\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/MaryAstor-1-75b.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"MaryAstor-1-75b\" width=\"371\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/MaryAstor-1-75b.jpg 371w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/MaryAstor-1-75b-82x100.jpg 82w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/MaryAstor-1-75b-164x200.jpg 164w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/MaryAstor-1-75b-329x400.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Siren has a really interesting interview up with <a href=\"http:\/\/selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/you-dont-wanna-know-about-how-frank-she.html\">Marylyn Roh about her mother, Mary Astor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/more-mary-marylyn.html\">part 2, of sorts.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The anecdotes about John Barrymore (there are several) were very moving to me: his seriousness about acting, his understanding of craft (and his willingness to pass it on to Astor), the &#8220;what if&#8221; of their love affair, and a final heartwrenching image of Barrymore in his later years, from Mary Astor&#8217;s wonderful autobiography.<\/p>\n<p>Must-reads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Siren has a really interesting interview up with Marylyn Roh about her mother, Mary Astor. And here&#8217;s a part 2, of sorts. The anecdotes about John Barrymore (there are several) were very moving to me: his seriousness about acting, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=24960\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24960"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24975,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24960\/revisions\/24975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}