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Anita Page (born Anita Pomares, August 4, 1910, Flushing, New York) is an American film actress.

Rise to stardom

Page entered films in A Kiss For Cinderella 1925, and after a few small but well received parts, was offered a contract with MGM Studios. MGM moulded her into one of their biggest female stars of the silent era, pairing her with such popular actors as Ramon Novarro and William Haines
. Her performances in Our Dancing Daughters
(1928) opposite Joan Crawford
, and The Broadway Melody
(1929) opposite Bessie Love
were her greatest successes of the period, and her popularity allowed her to make a smooth transition into talking pictures.

She was the leading lady to Buster Keaton
, Robert Montgomery, and Clark Gable
(among others) and during the early 1930s, she was one of Hollywood's busiest actresses. She was involved briefly with Gable romantically during that time. At the height of her popularity, she was receiving more fan mail than any other female star, with the exception of Greta Garbo
, and received multiple marriage proposals from Benito Mussolini in the mail.

One of her finest roles was as the prostitute, Jenny LeGrand, in the 1932 pre-Code movie, Skyscraper Souls, which starred Warren William
and a young Maureen O'Sullivan
.

Her body was featured in a poster labeling her "The Ideal Movie Star", which discussed her body parts and measurements, and another actress who possessed one comparable for each.

Retirement

When her contract expired in 1933, she surprised Hollywood by announcing her retirement at the age of 23. She made one more movie (in the UK in 1936), and then left the screen, virtually disappearing from Hollywood circles for 60 years.

In a 2004 interview with author Scott Feinberg, she revealed 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.

She married composer Nacio Herb Brown that same year but their marriage was dissolved a year later. She married Admiral Hershel A. House in 1937 and they moved to Coronado, California and lived there until his death in 1991. They had two daughters, the elder of whom, Sharon, predeceased Anita.

She returned to the screen in 1996 after sixty years retirement and has since appeared in several low budget horror films, several of which appeared to have been uncompleted or not released.

Anita Page has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 6116 Hollywood Boulevard. She is one of the last living silent movie stars (e.g. Barbara Kent
), and the last person alive who was in attendance at the very first Academy Awards in 1929.

Sadly, there are rumors that Page is suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's disease.

Filmography

  • A Kiss for Cinderella (1925)
  • Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926)
  • Telling the World (1928)
  • Our Dancing Daughters
    (1928)
  • While the City Sleeps (1928)
  • The Voice of Hollywood No. 3 (1929) (short subject)
  • The Flying Fleet (1929)
  • The Broadway Melody
    (1929)
  • The Hollywood Revue of 1929
    (1929)
  • Our Modern Maidens (1929)
  • Speedway (1929)
  • Navy Blues (1929)
  • Great Day (1930) (unfinished)
  • Free and Easy (1930)
  • Caught Short (1930)
  • Our Blushing Brides (1930)
  • Little Accident (1930)
  • War Nurse (1930)
  • Jackie Cooper's Birthday Party (1931) (short subject)
  • Reducing (1931)
  • The Easiest Way (1931)
  • Gentleman's Fate (1931)
  • Sidewalks of New York (1931)
  • The Christmas Party (1931)
  • Under Eighteen (1932)
  • Are You Listening? (1932)
  • Night Court (1932)
  • Skyscraper Souls (1932)
  • Prosperity
    (1932)
  • Jungle Bride (1933)
  • Soldiers of the Storm (1933)
  • The Big Cage (1933)
  • I Have Lived (1933)
  • Hitch Hike to Heaven (1936)
  • Sunset After Dark (1936)
  • Hollywood Mortuary (1998)
  • Creaturealm: From the Dead (1998)
  • I Used to Be in Pictures (2000) (documentary)
  • Witchcraft XI: Sisters in Blood (2000)
  • The Crawling Brain (2002)
  • Mumsie (2003)
  • Bob's Night Out (2004)

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