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First Name

Anita

Last Name

Page

Date of Birth

04 August 1910

Middle Name

Evelyn

Height

Build

Slim

Eye Color

Blue

Hair Color

Blonde

Maiden Name

Pomares

Place of Birth

Flushing, New York

Star Sign

Leo

Date of Death

06 September 2008

Place of Death

Van Nuys, California

Cause of Death

Natural Causes

Ethnicity

White

Religion

Roman Catholic

Claim to Fame

The Broadway Melody, WAMPAS Baby Star of 1929

Nationality

American

Gender

Female

Wikipedia Text

Anita Evelyn Pomares (August 4, 1910 � September 6, 2008), better known as Anita Page, 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 at one point receiving the most fan mail of anyone on the MGM lot. When Page died in 2008 at age 98, she was the last surviving "famous" film star of the silent era except for child actresses such as Baby Peggy and Baby Marie. A few silent leading ladies who did not achieve wide fame survive her. She was referred to as "a blond, blue-eyed Latin" and "the girl with the most beautiful face in Hollywood" in the 1920s.

Role ID

Actor/Actress, Soundtrack

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Couple Profile

Anita Page was a gorgeous blonde who achieved stardom in the silent era, then made the tricky transition to talkies. Now nearly 100 years old, Page remains in good health, and is perhaps the only silent era film star who still answers her own email. She was only an extra in her first film, A Kiss for Cinderella, made in 1925 when Page was 15. Within a few years, though, she had worked her way to leading lady status, starring in Sam Wood`s now-lost Telling the World, playing Joan Crawford`s backstabbing flapper friend in Our Dancing Daughters, and sparking police detective Lon Chaney Sr`s romantic interest in the action-packed While the City Sleeps. Her first talkie was the first all-sound feature-length musical, Broadway Melody with Bessie Love. It was a huge hit, spawning numerous sequels and rapid sales of sheet music, and the most popular song from the film was "You Were Meant For Me," sung by Page and actually written for her by composer Nacio Herb Brown. The song is still a standard, and has been covered in recent years by Sting and Jewel, among others. Brown was briefly married to Page several years later, and he is best known for writing another memorable tune, "Singin` in the Rain." Broadway Melody was Page`s most famous film, but she gave her best performance as the outspoken prostitute who serviced Jean Hersholt in the risqu� pre-code drama Skyscraper Souls. She had other successful films, but after she had the temerity to ask for a raise she was assigned smaller and smaller roles. When she met the man who would be her second husband, Navy Admiral Herschel House, Page left show business. They newlyweds settled in Coronado, California, where Page and House remained happily married until his death in 1991. Remarkably, Anita Page`s story has not yet ended. Through her long retirement from films, she made occasional appearances at screenings of her old films, and in 1996 she was lured from retirement to appear in Sunset After Dark with former child star Margaret O`Brien. Still spry, Page has since appeared in several more low-budget films, including Bob`s Night Out with Tommy Bond, who had been one of the Little Rascals in the 1930s. During her time as a major star, Page was romantically linked to William Haines, her co-star in six films, and to Hollywood`s silent-era Ben Hur, Ramon Novarro. Both men proposed marriage to Page, both were spurned, and both men were later revealed to be gay. Was admired my Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. He asked for her hand in marriage on several occasions, but the feeling were unrequitted. She was good friends with Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Sally O`Neil, Constance Bennett and Marion Davies. She also had a rivalry with Greta Garbo in her heyday.

Couple Profile Source

www.nndb.com/people/928/000066730/

Official Websites

www.anitapage.com/

Full Name at Birth

Anita Evelyn Pomares

Brand Endorsement

Lux soap (magazine advertisement) [1930]

Father

John Pomares

Mother

Helen Pomares

Brother

Mario Pomares

Friend

Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Sally O'Neil, Constance Bennett, Marion Davies (She stayed with her for five months after her first marriage broke up), Clark Gable, John Gilbert, Robert Montgomery

Age