Anita Page Biography

Fast Facts

• Appeared in small parts in several independent films in New York before moving to Hollywood
• Achieved star status after appearing opposite Joan Crawford in the silent film "Our Dancing Daughters" in 1928
• Made her screen acting debut in the film "A Kiss for Cinderella" in 1925
• Quote: "(On the mood music played on set before silent film scenes): "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 letdown for me․""
• Best known for her role as Queenie Mahoney in "The Broadway Melody" and as Alice in "Navy Blues․"
• Appeared in the 1991 documentary film "I Used to Be in Pictures" after her husband's death
• At the time of her death, she was the last living person to have attended the first ever Academy Awards ceremony in 1929
• Was one of a very small number of surviving actors to have appeared in silent films at the time of her death in 2008
• After the success of "Our Dancing Daughters," she received startling amount of fan mail, including several marriage proposals from Benito Mussolini