Gertrude Astor (born Gertrude Irene Eyster) was an American motion picture character actress, who began her career playing trombone in a woman's band.
The first actress to sign a contract with Universal Studios in 1915, she appeared in over 250 movies by 1962. Her best-known silent appearances were as the visiting stage star in Stage Struck (1925) with Gloria Swanson,[5] then as the vamp who plants stolen money on Harry Langdon in The Strong Man (1926), and as (Aunt Susan's) Flora Finch's niece, and later the traveling companion in The Cat and the Canary (1927).
Astor performed at Hal Roach studios with such headliners as Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, and especially Charley Chase.
