Anita Garvin

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Anita Garvin (born February 11, 1906 in New York City , New York , † July 7, 1994 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actress .

Life

Anita Garvin was born in New York City to Irish and Native American ancestors. When she was six years old, her father died in an accident. As a teenager she moved to California, before she had already gained first theater and show experiences with the Ziegfeld Girls . From 1924, the black-haired actress stood in front of the camera for the short film comedies of the Christie Film Company . In 1926 she moved to Hal Roach Studios and was seen there alongside comedians Charley Chase , James Finlayson and Max Davidson . Of Garvin's 90 or so films, her eleven appearances in Laurel and Hardy films are particularly memorable. She was often used as an attractive but easily irritable counterpart to the comedian duo, including as a dominant wife. In the films Why Girls Love Sailors (1927) and Angeheitert (1931), for example, she shoots a shotgun at the end of the film.

Garvin made the switch to sound film at the end of the 1920s without any problems. In 1930 she married the actor Red Stanley (1900–1980), with whom she remained married until his death on April 18, 1980. They had two children. She had previously been married to the film actor and later producer Clem Beauchamp (1898-1992). After marrying Stanley, she withdrew increasingly from the acting business in the 1930s and made fewer films. Her last role was in 1940 as a fish expert in the Three Stooges short film Cookoo Cavaliers . With her husband she also ran a restaurant called The Momtmarte for a time . Garvin died in Los Angeles in 1994 at the age of 88.

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SURNAME Garvin, Anita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garvin, Nita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1994
Place of death Los Angeles , California