Gertrude Astor — Better Late Than Never (1925) 🇺🇸

For a number of years Gertrude Astor’s golden-blond loveliness has ornamented the screen.

Recently she has had to characterize rather hard-boiled women, and in so doing has struck the flint of interest to a degree that she is much in demand, for it takes trained skill to play sophisticated women of the world. Her work in Pola Negri’s The Charmer, in Warner Brothers’ “The Wife Who Wasn’t Wanted,” in which she limned adroitly a comedy siren, and in “Kings of Turf,” for Fox [William Fox], has particularly pleased the producers, so that now tardy recognition is her reward.

Though her first public bow was made at the ripe old age of five, she has no theatrical traditions back of her, for the child did not act, but puffed away bravely on a sliding trombone every bit as large as herself. Touring with a band, she learned to play every horn instrument.

She has been associated with practically every star, and every producer.

Photo by: Hoover

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, September 1925