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Anita Page (born Anita Evelyn Pomares; August 4, 1910 – September 6, 2008) was an American film actress who reached stardom in the final years of the silent film era.[1]

Anita Page
Page in Our Modern Maidens (1929)
Born	Anita Evelyn Pomares (1910-08-04)August 4, 1910 Flushing, Queens, New York City, U.S.
Died	September 6, 2008(2008-09-06) (aged 98) Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Holy Cross Cemetery, San Diego, California
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1925–1936; 1961; 1996–2008
Spouses	Nacio Herb Brown ​ ​ (m. 1934; div. 1935)​ Herschel A. House ​ ​ (m. 1937; died 1991)​
Children	2

She was referred to as "a blond, blue-eyed Latin"[2] and "the girl with the most beautiful face in Hollywood" in the 1920s.[3] She retired from acting in 1936, but made a come back in 1961, after when she retired again. Page returned to acting thirty-five years later in 1996 and appeared in four films in the 2000s.

Early life

Anita Evelyn Pomares was born on August 4, 1910, in Flushing, Queens, New York.[4] Her parents were Marino Leo Pomares Jr., who was originally from Brooklyn,[5] and Maude Evelyn (née Mullane) Pomares.[6] She had one brother, Marino Pomares III, who later worked for her as a gym instructor while her mother worked as her secretary and her father as her chauffeur.[7] Page's paternal grandfather Marino Sr. was from Spain,[8] and had worked as a consul in El Salvador. Her grandmother Anna Muñoz was of Castilian Spanish and French descent.[8][9]

Career

Silent films and early talkies

Page entered films with the help of friend, actress Betty Bronson. A photo of Page was spotted by a man who handled Bronson's fan mail who was also interested in representing actors. With the encouragement of her mother, Page telephoned the man who arranged a meeting for her with a casting director at Paramount Studios. After doing a screen test for Paramount, she became among the first residents of the Chateau Marmont.[10] Page was offered contracts by both studios and selected MGM,[11] "because they were so good for female actresses. If you ask me, MGM was the studio."[12]

Page's first film for MGM was the 1928 comedy-drama Telling the World, opposite William Haines. Her performance in her second MGM film, Our Dancing Daughters (1928) opposite Joan Crawford was a success and it inspired two similar films in which they also co-starred, Our Modern Maidens and Our Blushing Brides. "I used to say that we're going to be 'The Galloping Grandmothers' at the rate we're going with these pictures," she reminisced in 1993.[13]

The Broadway Melody (1929) opposite Bessie Love is considered among her most successful films, and it won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Page transitioned to talking pictures, but she criticised the total loss of silent films. "In my opinion, silents were much better than talkies. One thing you had was mood music, which you could have playing throughout your scene to inspire you. My favorite song was 'My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice' from Samson and Delilah. I never seemed to tire of it. The trouble with talkies was, they let you have the music, but they'd stop it when you had to talk and it was always a let down for me."[13]

When not working on films, she was busy with studio photographer George Hurrell creating publicity shots. She was one of his first subjects, and her photograph was his first to be published.[14] MGM played up her heritage in these press releases such as this 1932 blurb: "She is that rarest and most interesting type of beauty,” ... “A Spanish blonde",[4] and dubbed her "a blonde, blue-eyed Latin".[2]

She was the leading lady to Lon Chaney, Buster Keaton, Robert Montgomery, Clark Gable and others. During the early 1930s, she was one of Hollywood's busiest actresses. She was involved romantically with Gable briefly 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 several marriage proposals from Benito Mussolini in the mail.[7]

Retirement

When her contract expired in 1933, she announced her retirement from acting at the age of 23. She retired as she was denied a pay rise. She made one more movie, Hitch Hike to Heaven, in 1936, and then retired fully from acting.[4] Later, Page claimed that Irving Thalberg had offered her the starring role in three movies if she would sleep with him, which she refused.[10][15]

She married composer Nacio Herb Brown in 1934. The marriage was annulled a year later because Brown's previous divorce had not been finalized at the time they were married.[16] She married Navy pilot Lieutenant Hershel A. House on January 9, 1937, in Yuma, Arizona.[17] They moved to Coronado, California, and lived there until his death in 1991. They had two daughters, Linda and Sandra.[18][19]

Return to acting

Page came back to acting and portrayed a nun in The Runaway, completed in 1961, but she cut short her comeback. Once again, she returned to acting in 1996 after over thirty years of retirement and appeared in several low budget horror films. Film veteran Margaret O'Brien appeared in two of them.[4]

Later years and death

Page was the last living attendee of the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929,[20] and frequently gave interviews as the "last star of the silents", appearing in documentaries about the era.

Page died in her sleep at the age of 98 on September 6, 2008, at her Los Angeles home,[4] where she had lived with long time companion Randal Malone.[10] She is buried in the Holy Cross Cemetery in San Diego.[21]

Legacy

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Anita Page has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6116 Hollywood Boulevard.[22]

Personal life

Page was a Democrat who supported the campaign of Adlai Stevenson during the 1952 presidential election.[23] Page was a Roman Catholic.[24]

Anita's second marriage was to Herschel Austin House in 1937. They lived in southern California and were together for 54 years, until Herschel's death in 1991 at the age of 84. Herschel had retired from the Navy as a Rear Admiral. They had two daughters, Sandra and Linda. They are buried together under his last name.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes[25]
1925	A Kiss for Cinderella		Uncredited
1926	Love 'Em and Leave 'Em		Uncredited
1927	Beach Nuts		Short
1928	Telling the World	Chrystal Malone
	Our Dancing Daughters	Ann 'Annikins'
	While the City Sleeps	Myrtle	Portions of 2 reels are missing
	West of Zanzibar	Bit role	Uncredited
1929	The Flying Fleet	Anita Hastings
	The Broadway Melody	Queenie Mahoney	Alternative title: The Broadway Melody of 1929
	The Hollywood Revue of 1929	Herself
	Our Modern Maidens	Kentucky Strafford
	Speedway	Patricia
	Navy Blues	Alice "Allie" Brown
1930	Free and Easy	Elvira Plunkett	Alternative title: Easy Go
	Caught Short	Genevieve Jones
	Our Blushing Brides	Connie Blair
	The Little Accident	Isabel
	War Nurse	Joy Meadows
	Great Day		Incomplete
	Estrellados	Herself	Uncredited
1931	The Voice of Hollywood No. 7 (Second Series)	Herself	Short
	Wir schalten um auf Hollywood	Herself	Uncredited
	Reducing	Vivian Truffle
	The Easiest Way	Peg Murdock Feliki
	Gentleman's Fate	Ruth Corrigan
	Sidewalks of New York	Margie Kelly
	Under Eighteen	Sophie
1932	Are You Listening?	Sally O'Neil
	Night Court	Mary Thomas	Alternative title: Justice for Sale
	Skyscraper Souls	Jenny LeGrande
	Prosperity	Helen Praskins Warren
1933	Jungle Bride	Doris Evans
	Soldiers of the Storm	Natalie
	The Big Cage	Lilian Langley
	I Have Lived	Jean St. Clair	Alternative titles: After Midnight Love Life
1936	Hitch Hike to Heaven	Claudia Revelle	Alternative title: Footlights and Shadows
1961	The Runaway	Nun
1996	Sunset After Dark	Anita Bronson
1998	Creaturealm: From the Dead	Herself	(segment "Hollywood Mortuary")
2000	Witchcraft XI: Sisters in Blood	Sister Seraphina	Direct-to-DVD release
2002	The Crawling Brain	Grandma Anita Kroger	Direct-to-DVD release
2004	Bob's Night Out	Socialite
2010	Frankenstein Rising	Elizabeth Frankenstein	Released posthumously
2019	Doctor Stein	Elizabeth Stein	Released posthumously; archive footage

References

Citations

Works cited

• Ankerich, Michael G. (1998). The Sound of Silence: Conversations With 16 Film and Stage Personalities Who Bridged the Gap Between Silents and Talkies. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0504-X.

External links

• Anita Page at IMDb
• Anita Page Biography and Gallery
• Anita Page Photo Gallery
• Anita Page at Golden Silents
• Guardian Interview with Anita Page
• Photographs of Anita Page

На других языках

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[es] Anita Page

Anita Evelyn Pomares, conocida como Anita Page (Nueva York, 4 de agosto de 1910-Los Ángeles, 6 de septiembre de 2008), fue una actriz estadounidense.

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[ru] Пейдж, Анита

Анита Пейдж (англ. Anita Page, урождённая Анита Помарес, 4 августа 1910, Флашинг, Нью-Йорк — 6 сентября 2008[1][2], Ван-Найс, Калифорния) — американская актриса, достигшая популярности в последние годы эры немого кино.

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