Anita Page
| Anita Page | |
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Anita Page in Our Modern Maidens
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| Born |
Anita Evelyn Pomares August 4, 1910 Flushing, Queens, New York, U.S. |
| Died | September 6, 2008 (aged 98) Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Holy Cross Cemetery, San Diego |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1925–1936; 1996–2008 |
| Spouse(s) |
Nacio Herb Brown (m. 1934; div. 1935) Herschel A. House (m. 1937; d. 1991) |
| Children | 2 |
Anita Page (August 4, 1910 – September 6, 2008) was an American film actress who reached stardom in the last years of the silent film era.
Page became a highly popular young star, reportedly receiving the most fan mail of anyone on the MGM lot. She 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. Page married her second husband the following year with whom she had two children.
Page returned to acting in 1996, and appeared in four films in the 2000s. She died in September 2008 at the age of 98.
She was born Anita Evelyn Pomares to Marino Leo, Sr. (b. Brooklyn) and Maude Evelyn (née Mullane) Pomares. She had one brother, Marino Jr., who later worked for her as a gym instructor while her mother worked as her secretary and her father as her chauffeur. Page's paternal grandfather Marino was Spanish who had worked as a consul in El Salvador; her grandmother Anna Muñoz was of (Castillian) Spanish descent. She was of maternal Yankee and French descent.
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 screentesting for Paramount, Page also tested for MGM. After being offered a contract for both studios, Page decided on MGM. Page's first film for MGM was the 1928 comedy-drama Telling the World, opposite William Haines. Her performances in her second MGM film, Our Dancing Daughters (1928) opposite Joan Crawford (with whom she appeared in three films), 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.
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