Anita Page

Birth Name:

Anita Evelyn Pomares

Birth Place:

Flushing, New York, United States

Profession

Actress, Soundtrack

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

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