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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. She was referred to as "a blond, blue-eyed Latin" and "the girl with the most beautiful face in Hollywood" in the 1920s.
Beautiful Anita Page was one of the most famous and popular leading ladies during the last years of the silent screen and the first years of the talkie era. She was best known for starring in The Broadway Melody (1929), the first sound film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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- Flushing, New York, USA
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- Van Nuys, California, USA
Anita Page was born Anita Pomares on August 4, 1910—and her rise to fame in the Roaring Twenties was as fast and loose as they come. As a teenager, the naturally blonde, blue-eyed Anita was already stunning, and she quickly got herself a deal to move to Hollywood with an outfit called Kenilworth Productions.
Beautiful Anita Page was one of the most famous and popular leading ladies during the last years of the silent screen and the first years of the talkie era. She was best known for starring in The Broadway Melody (1929), the first sound film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
- August 4, 1910
- September 6, 2008
Anita Page sat down with TCM in 1995 to reflect on her impressive career in silent films and talkies and how she managed the transition. Page also explains why Our Dancing Daughters (1928) was...
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Sep 8, 2008 · Anita Page, one of the last surviving stars of the silent screen and a popular Hollywood siren before her surprisingly early and seemingly permanent retirement in the 1930s, died on Saturday.
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Aug 22, 2007 · Learn about the life and career of Anita Page, who played leading roles in silent and early sound films opposite stars like Ramon Novarro and Clark Gable. Read her memories and quotes from interviews with Allan Ellenberger, author of a biography of Miriam Hopkins.