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Anita Louise
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Anita Louise (January 9, 1915 – April 25, 1970) was an American actress who made her acting debut on Broadway at the age of six, and within a year was appearing regularly in Hollywood films. By her late teens she was being cast in leading and supporting roles in major productions. As her stature in Hollywood grew, she was named as a WAMPAS Baby Star.
Among her film successes were Madame Du Barry, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Story of Louis Pasteur, Anthony Adverse, Marie Antoinette, The Sisters, and The Little Princess.
By the 1940s, Louise was reduced to minor roles and acted very infrequently until the advent of television in the 1950s provided her with further opportunities. In middl…
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Anita Louise (January 9, 1915 – April 25, 1970) was an American actress who made her acting debut on Broadway at the age of six, and within a year was appearing regularly in Hollywood films. By her late teens she was being cast in leading and supporting roles in major productions. As her stature in Hollywood grew, she was named as a WAMPAS Baby Star. Among her film successes were Madame Du Barry, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Story of Louis Pasteur, Anthony Adverse, Marie Antoinette, The Sisters, and The Little Princess. By the 1940s, Louise was reduced to minor roles and acted very infrequently until the advent of television in the 1950s provided her with further opportunities. In middle age she played one of her most widely seen roles as the gentle mother on My Friend Flicka.
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Anita Louise's Filmography
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
The Greer Case
as Mabel Seymour Greer
Retreat, Hell!
as Ruth Hansen
Bulldog Drummond at Bay
as Doris Hamilton / Doris Meredith
Blondie's Big Moment
as Miss Gray
Shadowed
as Carol Johnson
Personality Kid
as Laura Howard
The Devil's Mask
as Janet Mitchell
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
as Lady Catherine Maitland
Love Letters
as Helen Wentworth
The Fighting Guardsman
as Amelie de Montrevel
Casanova Brown
as Madge Ferris
Nine Girls
as Paula Canfield
Dangerous Blondes
as Julie Taylor
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
as Self
Harmon of Michigan
as Peggy Adams
Two in a Taxi
as Bonnie
The Phantom Submarine
as Madeleine Neilson
The Villain Still Pursued Her
as Mary Wilson
Glamour for Sale
as Ann Powell
Wagons Westward
as Phyllis O'Conover
Reno
as Mrs. Joanne Ryder
Main Street Lawyer
as Honey Boggs
Hero for a Day
as Sylvia Higgins
These Glamour Girls
as Daphne Graves
The Gorilla
as Norma Denby
The Little Princess
as Rose
Breakdowns of 1938
as Emmy Page (archive footage) (uncredited)
Going Places
as Ellen Parker
The Sisters
as Helen Elliott Johnson
Marie Antoinette
as Princesse de Lamballe
My Bill
as Muriel Colbrook
Tovarich
as Helene Dupont
First Lady
as Emmy Page
That Certain Woman
as Florence 'Flip' Carson Merrick
The Go-Getter
as Margaret Ricks
Call It a Day
as Joan Collett
Green Light
as Phyllis Dexter
Breakdowns of 1936
as Self
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
as Self
Anthony Adverse
as Maria
Brides Are Like That
as Hazel Robinson
The Making of a Great Motion Picture
The Story of Louis Pasteur
as Annette Pasteur
A Dream Comes True
as Herself (uncredited)
Personal Maid's Secret
as Diana Abercrombie
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Titania
Here's to Romance
as Lydia Lubov
Lady Tubbs
as Wynne Howard
The Firebird
as Mariette Pointer
Madame du Barry
as Marie Antoinette
Judge Priest
as Ellie May Gillespie
I Give My Love
as Lorna March
Cross Streets
as June Grattan
Most Precious Thing in Life
as Patty O'Day
Are We Civilized?
as Norma Bockner
Our Betters
as Bessie
The Phantom of Crestwood
as Esther Wren
Heaven on Earth
as Towhead
The Woman Between
as Helen Weston
Everything’s Rosie
as Rosie Droop
Millie
as Constance 'Connie' Maitland
The Great Meadow
as Betty Hall
The Third Alarm
as Milly Morton
Just Like Heaven
as Mimi
What a Man
as Marion Kilbourne
The Florodora Girl
as Younger Vibart Daughter
The Marriage Playground
as Blanca Wheater
Wonder of Women
as Lottie, as a child
Square Shoulders
as Mary Jane
The Spirit of Youth
as Toodles Ewing
A Woman of Affairs
as Young Diana (uncredited)
4 Devils
as Louise as a girl
The Untamed Lady
The Street of Forgotten Men
as Flower Girl (uncredited)
