Gertrude Astor Bio - Gertrude Astor
- Constellation: Scorpio
- Born In: Lakewood, Ohio, USAW
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- Profession:Actress
- Other Names:Gertrude Aster
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The first actress to sign a contract with Universal in 1915, Gertrude Astor (born in Ohio as Gertrude Irene Astor) began her career playing trombone and saxophone on a riverboat. Towering over most of her leading men at 5'11", she often played golddiggers, rich socialites or a leading lady's best friend in such one-reeled films and feature length silents as Polly Redhead (1917), The Price of a Good Time (1917), The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit (1918), The Lion Man (1919), Mary Pickford's Through the B