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Anita Louise

Anita Louise

Actor · 1915–1970 · New York City, New York, USA

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Biography

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.

Acted in 77

1950s

  1. 1957

    The Greer Case

    Mabel Seymour Greer

  2. 1955
  3. My Friend Flicka

    TV

  4. 1952

    Retreat, Hell!

    Ruth Hansen

  5. 1950

1940s

  1. 1947

    Bulldog Drummond at Bay

    Doris Hamilton / Doris Meredith

  2. Blondie's Big Moment

    Miss Gray

  3. 1946

    Shadowed

    Carol Johnson

  4. Personality Kid

    Laura Howard

  5. The Devil's Mask

    Janet Mitchell

  6. The Bandit of Sherwood Forest

    Lady Catherine Maitland

  7. 1945
  8. The Fighting Guardsman

    Amelie de Montrevel

  9. 1944
  10. 1943

    Dangerous Blondes

    Julie Taylor

  11. 1941

    Harmon of Michigan

    Peggy Adams

  12. Two in a Taxi

    Bonnie

  13. 1940

    The Phantom Submarine

    Madeleine Neilson

  14. Glamour for Sale

    Ann Powell

  15. Wagons Westward

    Phyllis O'Conover

1930s

  1. 1939

    Reno

    Mrs. Joanne Ryder

  2. Main Street Lawyer

    Honey Boggs

  3. Hero for a Day

    Sylvia Higgins

  4. These Glamour Girls

    Daphne Graves

  5. 1938

    Going Places

    Ellen Parker

  6. Breakdowns of 1938

    Emmy Page (archive footage) (uncredited)

  7. The Sisters

    Helen Elliott Johnson

  8. My Bill

    Muriel Colbrook

  9. 1937

    Tovarich

    Helene Dupont

  10. First Lady

    Emmy Page

  11. The Go-Getter

    Margaret Ricks

  12. Call It a Day

    Joan Collett

  13. Green Light

    Phyllis Dexter

  14. 1936
  15. Brides Are Like That

    Hazel Robinson

  16. The Making of a Great Motion Picture

    Movie

  17. 1935

    Personal Maid's Secret

    Diana Abercrombie

  18. A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Titania

  19. Here's to Romance

    Lydia Lubov

  20. Lady Tubbs

    Wynne Howard

  21. 1934

    The Firebird

    Mariette Pointer

  22. Madame du Barry

    Marie Antoinette

  23. I Give My Love

    Lorna March

  24. Cross Streets

    June Grattan

  25. Most Precious Thing in Life

    Patty O'Day

  26. 1933

    Our Betters

    Bessie

  27. 1932

    The Phantom of Crestwood

    Esther Wren

  28. 1931

    Heaven on Earth

    Towhead

  29. The Woman Between

    Helen Weston

  30. Everything’s Rosie

    Rosie Droop

  31. Millie

    Constance 'Connie' Maitland

  32. The Great Meadow

    Betty Hall

  33. 1930

    The Third Alarm

    Milly Morton

  34. Just Like Heaven

    Mimi

  35. What a Man

    Marion Kilbourne

1920s

  1. 1929

    The Marriage Playground

    Blanca Wheater

  2. Wonder of Women

    Lottie, as a child

  3. Square Shoulders

    Mary Jane

  4. The Spirit of Youth

    Toodles Ewing

  5. 1928
  6. 4 Devils

    Louise as a girl

  7. 1926

    The Untamed Lady

    Movie

  8. 1925

    The Street of Forgotten Men

    Flower Girl (uncredited)

  9. 1924

    The Sixth Commandment

    Movie

Appearances8

1980s

  1. 1988

    The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

    Self (archive footage)

1940s

  1. 1942

    Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

    Self

1930s

  1. 1936

    Breakdowns of 1936

    Self

  2. Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

    Self

  3. 1935

    A Dream Comes True

    Herself (uncredited)