Anita Louise
Born: 1915-01-09 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1970-04-25
Known For: Acting
Biography
Anita Louise (January 9, 1915 – April 25, 1970) was an American actress who made her acting debut on Broadway at the age of six, and within a year was appearing regularly in Hollywood films. By her late teens she was being cast in leading and supporting roles in major productions. As her stature in Hollywood grew, she was named as a WAMPAS Baby Star. Among her film successes were Madame Du Barry, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Story of Louis Pasteur, Anthony Adverse, Marie Antoinette, The Sisters, and The Little Princess. By the 1940s, Louise was reduced to minor roles and acted very infrequently until the advent of television in the 1950s provided her with further opportunities. In middle age she played one of her most widely seen roles as the gentle mother on My Friend Flicka.
Filmography
1988
- The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind as Self (archive footage)
1968
1967
1957
- The Greer Case as Mabel Seymour Greer
1956
- The Steve Allen Show as Self - Appearing
1955
- Matinee Theater
- The Millionaire as Nancy Wellington
- My Friend Flicka
1953
- Letter to Loretta as Self - Hostess
1952
- This Is Your Life as Self
- Retreat, Hell! as Ruth Hansen
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Beatrice Page
1947
- Blondie's Big Moment as Miss Gray
- Bulldog Drummond at Bay as Doris Hamilton / Doris Meredith
1946
- The Bandit of Sherwood Forest as Lady Catherine Maitland
- The Devil's Mask as Janet Mitchell
- Shadowed as Carol Johnson
- Personality Kid as Laura Howard
1945
- Love Letters as Helen Wentworth
- The Fighting Guardsman as Amelie de Montrevel
1944
- Casanova Brown as Madge Ferris
- Nine Girls as Paula Canfield
1943
- Dangerous Blondes as Julie Taylor
1942
- Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 as Self
1941
- Two in a Taxi as Bonnie
- Harmon of Michigan as Peggy Adams
1940
- The Villain Still Pursued Her as Mary Wilson
- Glamour for Sale as Ann Powell
- Wagons Westward as Phyllis O'Conover
- The Phantom Submarine as Madeleine Neilson
1939
- The Little Princess as Rose
- Main Street Lawyer as Honey Boggs
- The Gorilla as Norma Denby
- Reno as Mrs. Joanne Ryder
- Hero for a Day as Sylvia Higgins
- These Glamour Girls as Daphne Graves
1938
- Marie Antoinette as Princesse de Lamballe
- The Sisters as Helen Elliott Johnson
- Breakdowns of 1938 as Emmy Page (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Going Places as Ellen Parker
- My Bill as Muriel Colbrook
1937
- The Go-Getter as Margaret Ricks
- Call It a Day as Joan Collett
- Tovarich as Helene Dupont
- That Certain Woman as Florence 'Flip' Carson Merrick
- Green Light as Phyllis Dexter
- First Lady as Emmy Page
1936
- The Story of Louis Pasteur as Annette Pasteur
- Anthony Adverse as Maria
- Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) as Self
- The Making of a Great Motion Picture
- Breakdowns of 1936 as Self
- Brides Are Like That as Hazel Robinson
1935
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Titania
- A Dream Comes True as Herself (uncredited)
- Personal Maid's Secret as Diana Abercrombie
- Here's to Romance as Lydia Lubov
- Lady Tubbs as Wynne Howard
1934
- I Give My Love as Lorna March
- Most Precious Thing in Life as Patty O'Day
- Madame du Barry as Marie Antoinette
- Cross Streets as June Grattan
- Judge Priest as Ellie May Gillespie
- The Firebird as Mariette Pointer
- Are We Civilized? as Norma Bockner
1933
- Our Betters as Bessie
1932
- The Phantom of Crestwood as Esther Wren
1931
- The Woman Between as Helen Weston
- Heaven on Earth as Towhead
- Millie as Constance 'Connie' Maitland
- Everything’s Rosie as Rosie Droop
- The Great Meadow as Betty Hall
1930
- The Florodora Girl as Younger Vibart Daughter
- The Third Alarm as Milly Morton
- Just Like Heaven as Mimi
- What a Man as Marion Kilbourne
1929
- The Spirit of Youth as Toodles Ewing
- Wonder of Women as Lottie, as a child
- Square Shoulders as Mary Jane
- The Marriage Playground as Blanca Wheater
1928
- A Woman of Affairs as Young Diana (uncredited)
- 4 Devils as Louise as a girl
1926
1925
- The Street of Forgotten Men as Flower Girl (uncredited)