Anita Page

Anita Page

Born: August 4, 1910
Died: September 6, 2008
in Flushing, New York, USA
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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.

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The Crawling Brain
Title: The Crawling Brain
Character: Anita Kroger
Released: April 22, 2016
Type: Movie
Stefan learns that his invalid grandmother was the nurse/lover of Nazi doctor Franz Kindler and that she removed his brain when the Nazis were losing WW2. Unable to successfully perform a transplant on test subjects, she needs Stefan to carry on for her now that her health is failing.
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Frankenstein Rising
Title: Frankenstein Rising
Character: Elizabeth Frankenstein
Released: April 20, 2010
Type: Movie
A modern day descendent of Frankenstein becomes obsessed with his ancestor's work and seeks to replicate them and create a living man from lifeless tissue.
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Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
Title: Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
Character: Self - Actress / Crawford Co-Star
Released: August 1, 2002
Type: Movie
In this documentary on the life of Joan Crawford, we learn why she should be remembered as the great actress she was, and not only as "mommie dearest." caricature she has become. Friends, fellow actors, directors, and others reminisce about their association with her, and numerous film clips show off her talent from her start in silents to bad science fiction/horror movies at the end of her career.
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Witchcraft XI: Sisters in Blood
Title: Witchcraft XI: Sisters in Blood
Character: Sister Seraphina
Released: May 9, 2000
Type: Movie
Three drama students revive three witches, who want to open a gate to hell; Will Spanner and Kelly get involved, while Detectives Lutz and Garner investigate.
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Hollywood Mortuary
Title: Hollywood Mortuary
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Framed by interviews with real life celebrities, Hollywood Mortuary tells the tale of a horror make-up artist who, in 1941 Hollywood, uses voodoo to resurrect two rival horror stars (thinly disguised versions of Karloff and Lugosi) from the dead to help revive his fading career.
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Creaturealm: From the Dead
Title: Creaturealm: From the Dead
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Two-part anthology featuring resurrected zombie actors and a young woman whose murderous dreams may become reality.
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Sunset After Dark
Title: Sunset After Dark
Character: Anita Bronson
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
A struggling screenwriter finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation.
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Title: Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 10, 1972
Type: Movie
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system.
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Title: The Big Parade of Comedy
Character: Vivian Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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The Runaway
Title: The Runaway
Character: Nun
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The adventures of a young boy who runs away from an orphanage on a search to find his father.
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Hitch Hike To Heaven
Title: Hitch Hike To Heaven
Character: Claudia Revelle
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A theatre actor makes the crossover to movies and becomes a star, but his new-found fame puts his family relationships at risk.
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I Have Lived
Title: I Have Lived
Character: Jean St. Clair
Released: June 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A girl with a shady past is picked by a playwright to be the star of his newest play.
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The Big Cage
Title: The Big Cage
Character: Lilian Langley
Released: May 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A circus on the verge of bankruptcy decides to save itself by staging a animal act with lions and tigers for the first time.
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Soldiers of the Storm
Title: Soldiers of the Storm
Character: Natalie
Released: April 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Soldiers of the Storm is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman.
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Jungle Bride
Title: Jungle Bride
Character: Doris Evans
Released: January 9, 1933
Type: Movie
Four survivors of a ship wreck are stranded on a deserted island, including a woman and the man she believes is responsible for the murder which her brother is in prison for.
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Prosperity
Title: Prosperity
Character: Helen Praskins Warren
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.
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Skyscraper Souls
Title: Skyscraper Souls
Character: Jenny LeGrande
Released: July 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Skyscraper Souls is a Pre-Code 1932 drama film starring Warren William and Maureen O'Sullivan. The film was directed by Edgar Selwyn and is based upon the novel Skycraper by Faith Baldwin. The film depicts the aspirations and lives of several people in the Seacoast National Bank Building. Among them is David Dwight, the womanizing bank owner who keeps his estranged wife happy by paying her bills. His secretary Sarah wants him to get a divorce so they can marry.
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Night Court
Title: Night Court
Character: Mary Thomas
Released: June 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special prosecutor.
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Are You Listening?
Title: Are You Listening?
Character: Larry Barnes
Released: March 21, 1932
Type: Movie
WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of commercial interludes that keep consumers buying and sponsors smiling. But one sponsor, a producer of plumbing supplies, isn’t happy. So WBLA scriptwriter Bill Grimes is bounced from his job, setting in motion this movie’s turn from comedic to darkly tragic. William Haines, two years removed from being Tinseltown’s top male star, plays Grimes in a melodrama noted for its glimpses of live radio production and for a Depression-era ethos that includes peroxide cuties eager to land a job, a sugar daddy or both.
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Under Eighteen
Title: Under Eighteen
Character: Sophie
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.
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The Christmas Party
Title: The Christmas Party
Character: Herself
Released: December 17, 1931
Type: Movie
In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His fellow stars at MGM help him out.
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Sidewalks of New York
Title: Sidewalks of New York
Character: Margie
Released: September 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) by transforming their rough neighborhood into a more decent place.
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We're switching to Hollywood
Title: We're switching to Hollywood
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1931
Type: Movie
A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who is working there as an extra. They meet and speak to several actors, primarily Buster Keaton, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford and Heinrich George. Then they meet Adolphe Menjou, who rehearses a long scene in German. A final scene shows stars arriving at a film premiere, including Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer and Wallace Beery.
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Gentleman's Fate
Title: Gentleman's Fate
Character: Ruth Corrigan
Released: March 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
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The Easiest Way
Title: The Easiest Way
Character: Peg Murdock Feliki
Released: February 7, 1931
Type: Movie
Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura decides not to marry the boy-next-door and instead accepts wealthy, older Will Brockton's invitation to move in with him. After falling in love with young up-and-coming newsman Jack Madison she leaves Brockton to wait for Madison's return from a long assignment. She runs out of money and becomes desperate, returning again to Brockton who, upon learning of Madison's sudden arrival, tells Laura she must inform Madison of her living situation or he will.
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Reducing
Title: Reducing
Character: Vivian Truffle
Released: January 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.
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War Nurse
Title: War Nurse
Character: Joy Meadows
Released: November 22, 1930
Type: Movie
Untrained, volunteer Nurses from America treat Allied soldiers behind and on the lines in France. They face the horrors of war, fight off the attentions of soldiers and face their own loneliness.
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Little Accident
Title: Little Accident
Character: Isabel
Released: August 3, 1930
Type: Movie
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
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Our Blushing Brides
Title: Our Blushing Brides
Character: Connie Blair
Released: July 19, 1930
Type: Movie
Three department store girls--Connie, Franky, and Gerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City. Each earns little more than 20 dollars per week. Gerry is the sensible one, but the others throw themselves at amoral rich men in an attempt to hook one and better themselves. They end up being hurt and disappointed despite Gerry's attempts to warn them.
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Estrellados
Title: Estrellados
Character: Self (Guest Appearance at Premiere)
Released: July 7, 1930
Type: Movie
A matinée idol and a bumbling manager fight for the love of a would-be starlet. Estrellados is the Spanish version of Free and Easy (1930) with Hispanic/Spanish-speaking actors.
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Caught Short
Title: Caught Short
Character: Genevieve Jones
Released: May 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Landladies Polly Smith and Marie Jones, who operate boardinghouses on the same side of the street, are afflicted with numerous petty envies and jealousies but nevertheless are the best of friends. Polly invests in the stock market and begins to reap rewards, but she is unable to persuade Marie to use her life's savings to buy shares of American Cheese or Brazilian Bananas. Meanwhile, Marie's daughter, Genevieve, and Polly's son, William, just back from college, fall in love; but an argument between the ladies breaks up the romance; and smarting under Polly's patronizing manner, Marie plunges into the market herself and with the winnings is able to stage a society splurge at a fashionable resort.
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Free and Easy
Title: Free and Easy
Character: Elvira
Released: March 22, 1930
Type: Movie
Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood. The Chamber of Commerce also provides Elvira with an agent, Gopher City's own Elmer J. Butz. Elmer likes Elvira and the shy Elvira likes him, but Mrs. Plunkett, a formidable woman, has little use for hapless Elmer. On the train west, they meet movie star Larry Mitchell, who takes a shine to Elvira and helps her meet MGM directors once they get to Tinsel Town. Elmer, meanwhile, wants to help Elvira with her career and he also wants to be her man. Movie stardom does come to the Gopher City entourage, but to whom is a surprise. And who will win the lovely Elvira's hand?
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The Voice of Hollywood No. 3
Title: The Voice of Hollywood No. 3
Character: Herself
Released: January 31, 1930
Type: Movie
Reginald Denny hosts. Reginald Denny presents a performance by a famed female impersonator Julian Eltinage. Anita Page and Julia Faye discuss the latest fashions for women. Bobby Vernon attempts to provide musical entertainment.
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Navy Blues
Title: Navy Blues
Character: Alice Brown
Released: December 20, 1929
Type: Movie
On shore leave, a young sailor meets and falls in love with a pretty young blonde. He goes home with her to meet her parents, but they don't approve of him at all. Their daughter takes offense at this, and in the ensuing argument she storms out of the house determined to live on her own.
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The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Title: The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Character: Self
Released: November 23, 1929
Type: Movie
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
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Speedway
Title: Speedway
Character: Patricia 'Pat' Bonner
Released: October 7, 1929
Type: Movie
Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son since he took him in. One day at the track, Bill sees Pat Bannon, and tries his best to impress her, but to no avail. On his way to catch a flight, he tricks Pat into taking him to the airport and she gets even by taking him up in a plane. He hates to fly, but will not show her that he is afraid and when the plane breaks up, he is a hero for rescuing her. This gets him publicity and Renny offers him his car to drive in the Indianapolis 500. Bill breaks with Mac to drive the car and puts it on the pole for the race. Then Renny double crosses Bill and plans to drive the car himself since Bill has tuned it so well.
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Our Modern Maidens
Title: Our Modern Maidens
Character: Kentucky
Released: September 8, 1929
Type: Movie
Young vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting her secret fiancée Gil a diplomatic appointment. Meanwhile Gil's affections meander to beautiful ingenue Kentucky, Billie's best friend.
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The Broadway Melody
Title: The Broadway Melody
Character: Queenie Mahoney
Released: February 8, 1929
Type: Movie
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
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The Flying Fleet
Title: The Flying Fleet
Character: Anita Hastings
Released: January 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. When the officer of the day becomes sick, Tommy Winslow has to take his place, while the others go out and celebrate.
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Fashion News
Title: Fashion News
Character: Self (1929)
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
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Our Dancing Daughters
Title: Our Dancing Daughters
Character: Ann 'Annikins'
Released: September 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A flapper sets her hat for a man with a hard-drinking wife.
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Telling the World
Title: Telling the World
Character: Chrystal Malone
Released: June 30, 1928
Type: Movie
The journalist Don Davis becomes involved in a murder case, where Chrystal Malone is part of it. Davis follows Chrystal to China. When Chrystal arrives in China, Davis has to save her from an execution.
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While the City Sleeps
Title: While the City Sleeps
Character: Myrtle Sullivan
Released: February 15, 1928
Type: Movie
A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though the detective knows he's guilty of committing them.
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Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
Title: Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Mame Walsh promised their mother on her deathbed to look after little sister Janie. But Janie helps herself to everything of her sister's, be it her clothes or her men - even the money entrusted to her by fellow employees at the store they work at. Regardless, Mame can't break her promise. So when it comes to getting Janie out of trouble, big sister comes to the rescue.
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A Kiss for Cinderella
Title: A Kiss for Cinderella
Released: December 22, 1925
Type: Movie
An adaption of a novel by Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie.