Anita Page
Born: 1910-08-04 in Flushing, New York, USA
Died: 2008-09-06
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anita Page (August 4, 1910 – September 6, 2008), born Anita Evelyn Pomares, was an American film actress who reached stardom in the last years of the silent film era. She became a highly popular young star, reportedly receiving the most fan mail of anyone on the MGM lot. Page was referred to as "a blond, blue-eyed Latin" and "the girl with the most beautiful face in Hollywood" in the 1920s. She retired from acting in 1936 at the age of 23. In a 2004 interview with author Scott Feinberg, Page claimed that her refusal to meet demands for sexual favors by MGM head of production Irving Thalberg, supported by studio chief Louis B. Mayer, is what truly ended her career. She said that Mayer colluded with the other studio bosses to ban her and other uncooperative actresses from finding work. Page returned to acting sixty years later in 1996, and appeared in four films in the 2000s. She died in September 2008 at the age of 98.
Filmography
2016
- The Crawling Brain as Anita Kroger
2010
- Frankenstein Rising as Elizabeth Frankenstein
2002
- Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star as Self - Actress / Crawford Co-Star
2000
- Witchcraft XI: Sisters in Blood as Sister Seraphina
1998
- Hollywood Mortuary as Herself
- Creaturealm: From the Dead as Herself
1996
- Sunset After Dark as Anita Bronson
1972
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
1964
- The Big Parade of Comedy as Vivian Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1961
- The Runaway as Nun
1936
- Hitch Hike To Heaven as Claudia Revelle
1933
- Jungle Bride as Doris Evans
- The Big Cage as Lilian Langley
- I Have Lived as Jean St. Clair
- Soldiers of the Storm as Natalie
1932
- Are You Listening? as Sally O'Neil
- Skyscraper Souls as Jenny LeGrande
- Under Eighteen as Sophie
- Night Court as Mary Thomas
- Prosperity as Helen Praskins Warren
1931
- Sidewalks of New York as Margie
- Reducing as Vivian Truffle
- Gentleman's Fate as Ruth Corrigan
- The Christmas Party as Herself
- The Easiest Way as Peg Murdock
- We’re Switching to Hollywood as Self (uncredited)
1930
- Caught Short as Genevieve Jones
- Free and Easy as Elvira
- Our Blushing Brides as Connie Blair
- Little Accident as Isabel
- War Nurse as Joy Meadows
- Estrellados as Self (Guest Appearance at Premiere)
- The Voice of Hollywood No. 3 as Herself
1929
- The Broadway Melody as Queenie Mahoney
- Our Modern Maidens as Kentucky
- Speedway as Patricia 'Pat' Bonner
- Navy Blues as Alice Brown
- The Flying Fleet as Anita Hastings
- The Hollywood Revue of 1929 as Self
1928
- Telling the World as Chrystal Malone
- While the City Sleeps as Myrtle Sullivan
- Our Dancing Daughters as Ann 'Annikins'
1926
- Love 'Em and Leave 'Em as (uncredited)