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name: "Anita Page"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/anita-page"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "4 August 1910"
died: "6 September 2008"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T21:25:36.843329+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Anita Page

Actor. Born 4 August 1910 in Flushing, New York, USA. Died 6 September 2008.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 August 1910, Flushing, New York, USA
- **Died:** 6 September 2008
- **Also known as:** Anita Evelyn Pomares
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 other
- **Frequently works with:** [Harry Rapf](https://film.one/person/harry-rapf.md), [Irving Thalberg](https://film.one/person/irving-thalberg.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Page, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q283342, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0656105/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/98012

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*The Hollywood Revue of 1929*](https://film.one/film/the-hollywood-revue-of-1929.md) (62)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Broadway Melody*](https://film.one/film/the-broadway-melody.md) (60)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Anita Page

> The blonde the camera was pointed at in MGM's Jazz Age pictures, Anita Page was better than the decorative parts she mostly got, and best when nobody asked her to speak. Sound arrived, critics heard a girl reciting, and she was gone by 26.

A man sings to Anita Page in a hotel room. It is Charles King, in *The Broadway Melody* (1929), the song is 'You Were Meant for Me', and he means every word of it, which is the problem, because she does not. Page plays Queenie Mahoney, the pretty sister, the one everybody in the picture wants, as a girl who has worked out too late that being wanted is not the same as being asked. We found ourselves watching her and not him. King is busy with his big voice and his hands; Page is doing the quieter work of a woman deciding how much of this she can afford to hear.

That was her second year at MGM. She had been an extra from 1925, signed with the studio in 1928, and was a star almost at once in *Our Dancing Daughters* (1928) opposite Joan Crawford. The Jazz Age pictures wanted blondes who looked like trouble, and Page was cast as flappers, gold-diggers and chorus girls for most of what followed. She worked steadily into the early 1930s, opposite Lon Chaney, Buster Keaton, Robert Montgomery and Clark Gable, six films with Montgomery alone, and then in 1936, at 26, she stopped making features. A few stray appearances decades later do not change the shape. The career is eight years long and the best of it is at the front.

What worked was the silent face. Critics found her strongest in dramatic parts, particularly as the rival not to be trusted, and *Our Dancing Daughters* was singled out for a drunk scene played as if she meant it and for how well she worked with her co-stars. *While the City Sleeps* (1928), with Chaney, is the other film people point to. We have not reviewed either, so we will not pretend to. What we can say from *The Broadway Melody* is that her face does the work and her voice is left to catch up.

The voice was the trouble. When sound came in, reviewers heard Page reciting lines rather than speaking them. She had her own view of it. "In my opinion, silents were much better than talkies. One thing you had was mood music, which you could have playing throughout your scene to inspire you." No actor would offer that defence now, but it is an honest account of a performer who had built a method on one set of conditions and then lost them. The studio kept her in second leads, decorative and popular, and she took the parts.

So the record is short and a little sad, and it is worth knowing that before you start. Watch *The Broadway Melody* for Bessie Love, who is the reason to see it, and then watch it again for what Page does while Love is talking. Then go back to 1928 and see what she looked like when nobody expected her to say anything.

## Biography

Anita Page, born Anita Evelyn Pomares, was an American actress. She began her career with uncredited roles in the mid-1920s and signed with MGM in 1928.

Page appeared in several late silent films and early talkies, including *Our Dancing Daughters* (1928) and *The Broadway Melody* (1929), in which she played Queenie Mahoney. She also featured as herself in *The Hollywood Revue of 1929* (1929). She retired from acting in 1936 and returned to the screen in 1996, appearing in a small number of later films.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1) — the average rests on these

- *The Broadway Melody* (1929), Fi1m 60, as Queenie Mahoney — [page](https://film.one/film/the-broadway-melody.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *The Hollywood Revue of 1929* (1929), Fi1m 62, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hollywood-revue-of-1929.md)

## Complete filmography (35)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Crawling Brain* (2016), as Anita Kroger
- *Frankenstein Rising* (2010), as Elizabeth Frankenstein
- *Witchcraft XI: Sisters in Blood* (2000), as Sister Seraphina
- *Sunset After Dark* (1996), as Anita Bronson
- *The Big Parade of Comedy* (1964), as Vivian Truffle in 'Reducing' (archive footage) (uncredited)
- *The Runaway* (1961), as Nun
- *Hitch Hike To Heaven* (1936), as Claudia Revelle
- *I Have Lived* (1933), as Jean St. Clair
- *The Big Cage* (1933), as Lilian Langley
- *Soldiers of the Storm* (1933), as Natalie
- *Jungle Bride* (1933), as Doris Evans
- *Prosperity* (1932), as Helen Praskins Warren
- *Skyscraper Souls* (1932), as Jenny LeGrande
- *Night Court* (1932), as Mary Thomas
- *Are You Listening?* (1932), as Sally O'Neil
- *Under Eighteen* (1932), as Sophie
- *Sidewalks of New York* (1931), as Margie
- *Gentleman's Fate* (1931), as Ruth Corrigan
- *The Easiest Way* (1931), as Peg Murdock
- *Reducing* (1931), as Vivian Truffle
- *War Nurse* (1930), as Joy Meadows
- *Little Accident* (1930), as Isabel
- *Our Blushing Brides* (1930), as Connie Blair
- *Caught Short* (1930), as Genevieve Jones
- *Free and Easy* (1930), as Elvira
- *Navy Blues* (1929), as Alice Brown
- *Speedway* (1929), as Patricia 'Pat' Bonner
- *Our Modern Maidens* (1929), as Kentucky
- *The Broadway Melody* (1929), as Queenie Mahoney — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/the-broadway-melody.md)
- *The Flying Fleet* (1929), as Anita Hastings
- *Our Dancing Daughters* (1928), as Ann 'Annikins'
- *Telling the World* (1928), as Chrystal Malone
- *While the City Sleeps* (1928), as Myrtle Sullivan
- *Love 'Em and Leave 'Em* (1926), as (uncredited)
- *A Kiss for Cinderella* (1925), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Anita Page](https://film.one/media/person/1224123/gallery-ddf3aa3182fe.jpg) Anita Page — Studio publicity. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1929., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Anita_Page_-_OUR_MODERN_MAIDENS.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Anita Page](https://film.one/media/person/1224123/gallery-80dc5aa822c3.jpg) Anita Page — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Anita_Page_%281930s%29_%2852480965938%29.jpg/1280px-Anita_Page_%281930s%29_%2852480965938%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Anita Page, film actress Subjects (LCTGM): actresses (1928)](https://film.one/media/person/1224123/gallery-614aff865105.jpg) Anita Page, film actress Subjects (LCTGM): actresses (1928) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Anita_Page%2C_film_actress_%28SAYRE_7050%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Little Accident Subjects (LCTGM): motion pictures, actresses, actors (1930)](https://film.one/media/person/1224123/gallery-5edec1c02c83.jpg) Little Accident Subjects (LCTGM): motion pictures, actresses, actors (1930) — Unknown photographerUnknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Little_Accident_%28SAYRE_15271%29.jpg/1280px-Little_Accident_%28SAYRE_15271%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Anita Page](https://film.one/media/person/1224123/gallery-42e48b8123d9.jpg) Anita Page — Image via TMDB
- ![Anita Page](https://film.one/media/person/1224123/gallery-2ff83e8fec1e.jpg) Anita Page — Image via TMDB
- ![Anita Page](https://film.one/media/person/1224123/gallery-1d74b553775c.jpg) Anita Page — Image via TMDB
- ![Navy Blues Subjects (LCTGM): motion pictures, actresses, actors (1930)](https://film.one/media/person/1224123/gallery-3dbc0336147a.jpg) Navy Blues Subjects (LCTGM): motion pictures, actresses, actors (1930) — Unknown photographerUnknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Navy_Blues_%28SAYRE_15659%29.jpg/1280px-Navy_Blues_%28SAYRE_15659%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Anita Page](https://film.one/media/person/1224123/gallery-e68484e5fc07.jpg) Anita Page — Image via TMDB

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