Anita Louise
Acting
Born January 9, 1915, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Filmography
- The Mod Squad
- Mannix
- 1957The Greer Case — Mabel Seymour Greer
- Matinee Theater
- My Friend Flicka
- The Millionaire — Nancy Wellington
- Letter to Loretta — Self - Hostess, Laura Killian
- 1952Retreat, Hell! — Ruth Hansen
- Lux Video Theatre — Beatrice Page
- 1947Blondie's Big Moment — Miss Gray
- 1947Bulldog Drummond at Bay — Doris Hamilton / Doris Meredith
- 1946Personality Kid — Laura Howard
- 1946Shadowed — Carol Johnson
- 1946The Bandit of Sherwood Forest — Lady Catherine Maitland
- 1946The Devil's Mask — Janet Mitchell
- 1945Love Letters — Helen Wentworth
- 1945The Fighting Guardsman — Amelie de Montrevel
- 1944Casanova Brown — Madge Ferris
- 1944Nine Girls — Paula Canfield
- 1943Dangerous Blondes — Julie Taylor
- 1941Harmon of Michigan — Peggy Adams
- 1941Two in a Taxi — Bonnie
- 1940Glamour for Sale — Ann Powell
- 1940The Phantom Submarine — Madeleine Neilson
- 1940The Villain Still Pursued Her — Mary Wilson
- 1940Wagons Westward — Phyllis O'Conover
- 1939Hero for a Day — Sylvia Higgins
- 1939Main Street Lawyer — Honey Boggs
- 1939Reno — Mrs. Joanne Ryder
- 1939The Gorilla — Norma Denby
- 1939The Little Princess — Rose
- 1939These Glamour Girls — Daphne Graves
- 1938Breakdowns of 1938 — Emmy Page (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1938Going Places — Ellen Parker
- 1938Marie Antoinette — Princesse de Lamballe
- 1938My Bill — Muriel Colbrook
- 1938The Sisters — Helen Elliott Johnson
- 1937Call It a Day — Joan Collett
- 1937First Lady — Emmy Page
- 1937Green Light — Phyllis Dexter
- 1937That Certain Woman — Florence 'Flip' Carson Merrick
- 1937The Go-Getter — Margaret Ricks
- 1937Tovarich — Helene Dupont
- 1936Anthony Adverse — Maria
- 1936Brides Are Like That — Hazel Robinson
- 1936The Making of a Great Motion Picture
- 1936The Story of Louis Pasteur — Annette Pasteur
- 1935A Midsummer Night's Dream — Titania
- 1935Here's to Romance — Lydia Lubov
- 1935Lady Tubbs — Wynne Howard
- 1935Personal Maid's Secret — Diana Abercrombie
- 1934Are We Civilized? — Norma Bockner
- 1934Cross Streets — June Grattan
- 1934I Give My Love — Lorna March
- 1934Judge Priest — Ellie May Gillespie
- 1934Madame du Barry — Marie Antoinette
- 1934Most Precious Thing in Life — Patty O'Day
- 1934The Firebird — Mariette Pointer
- 1933Our Betters — Bessie
- 1932The Phantom of Crestwood — Esther Wren
- 1931Everything’s Rosie — Rosie Droop
- 1931Heaven on Earth — Towhead
- 1931Millie — Constance 'Connie' Maitland
- 1931The Great Meadow — Betty Hall
- 1931The Woman Between — Helen Weston
- 1930Just Like Heaven — Mimi
- 1930The Florodora Girl — Younger Vibart Daughter
- 1930The Third Alarm — Milly Morton
- 1930What a Man — Marion Kilbourne
- 1929Square Shoulders — Mary Jane
- 1929The Marriage Playground — Blanca Wheater
- 1929The Spirit of Youth — Toodles Ewing
- 1929Wonder of Women — Lottie, as a child
- 19284 Devils — Louise as a girl
- 1928A Woman of Affairs — Young Diana (uncredited)
- 1926The Untamed Lady
- 1925The Street of Forgotten Men — Flower Girl (uncredited)
- 1924The Sixth Commandment
Appearances as themselves (7)
- 1988The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind — Self (archive footage)
- The Steve Allen Show — Self - Appearing
- This Is Your Life — Self
- 1942Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 — Self
- 1936Breakdowns of 1936 — Self
- 1936Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) — Self
- 1935A Dream Comes True — Herself (uncredited)