Anita Page

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Anita Page (born August 4, 1910 as Anita Pomares in Flushing , Queens , New York City , † September 6, 2008 in Van Nuys , Los Angeles , California ) was an American film actress .

Life

Anita Page was a sought-after actress even in the silent film era. In 1925 she made her screen debut alongside Betty Bronson in A Kiss For Cinderella . In 1927 Page received a studio contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was immediately used as the leading lady of William Haines in Telling the Word . In the following years, Anita Page established herself as a popular supporting actress of the late silent film era and early sound film era . She was often seen alongside Joan Crawford and Dorothy Sebastian , including in the films in the Our series. The greatest financial successes of her career were The Hollywood Revue of 1929 and The Broadway Melody . The film won in 1930 (April) Oscar ceremony the Oscar for best film . In 1929, Page was voted one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars . At the height of her career, she is said to have received 10,000 fan mail a week. Over 100 of these fan letters came from Benito Mussolini , who proposed marriage to Anita Page several times. Her career slowly came to an end when she starred with Buster Keaton in Free and Easy and Sidewalks of New York in 1931 . In the same year she had a small supporting role with Clark Gable in the Constance Bennett film Heart at the Crossroads . When her contract with MGM expired in 1933, at the age of 23, she suddenly announced that she would retire from the film business.

In 1934 Anita Page married the film composer Nacio Herb Brown , who also wrote the soundtrack for The Broadway Melody of 1929 . However, the marriage broke up after just one year. In 1937 she married Herschel House, with whom she lived in retirement in California until his death in 1991. There are two daughters from this marriage. In 1996, Anita Page returned to the film business after a 60-year hiatus, only interrupted by a small film appearance in 1963, and took part in several second-rate splatter horror films until 2008 . Regarding her early retirement from the movie business, she explained her view of things in 2004, claiming that Irving Thalberg sexually molested her in 1933, which resulted in her no longer wanting to work for MGM. After this affront, Thalberg made sure that Page did not get a contract with other studios either. However, your description is implausible, as Thalberg did not work from late 1932 to early 1934 for health reasons and spent most of the time in Europe.

Page died of natural causes on September 6, 2008, at the age of 98. With her, the last participant in the Academy Awards died in 1929 . A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6116 Hollywood Boulevard commemorates the actress .

Filmography

  • 1925: A Kiss for Cinderella
  • 1926: Love Em and Leave Em
  • 1927: Beach Nuts
  • 1928: Telling the World
  • 1928: Our Dancing Daughters
  • 1928: While the City Sleeps
  • 1928: West of Zanzibar
  • 1929: The Flying Fleet
  • 1929: The Broadway Melody
  • 1929: Modern Girls (Our Modern Maidens)
  • 1929: The Hollywood Revue of 1929
  • 1929: Speedway
  • 1929: Navy Blues
  • 1930: Great Day
  • 1930: Free and Easy
  • 1930: Caught Short
  • 1930: Our Blushing Brides
  • 1930: Little Accident
  • 1930: Was a nurse
  • 1931: Reducing
  • 1931: Heart at the Crossroads (The Easiest Way)
  • 1931: Gentleman's Fate
  • 1931: Sidewalks of New York
  • 1932: Under Eighteen
  • 1932: Are You Listening?
  • 1932: Night Court
  • 1932: Skyscraper Souls
  • 1932: Prosperity
  • 1933: Jungle Bride
  • 1933: Soldiers of the Storm
  • 1933: The Big Cage
  • 1933: I Have Lived
  • 1936: Hitch Hike to Heaven
  • 1963: Saint Mike
  • 1996: Sunset After Dark
  • 2000: Witchcraft XI: Sisters in Blood
  • 2002: The Crawling Brain
  • 2003: Mumsie
  • 2004: Bob's Night Out
  • 2008: Frankenstein Rising

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personal data
SURNAME Page, Anita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pomares, Anita (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film actress
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Flushing , Queens , New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 2008
Place of death Van Nuys , Los Angeles , California , United States