Anita PageFilmography

Witchcraft XI: Sisters in Blood

The Runaway

Actors: Cesar Romero, Roger Mobley, Chick Chandler, Anita Page, Nacho Galindo

Synopsis: A young delinquent from a Mexican border town sets out to cross the border and search for his long lost father, in the process befriending a loyal greyhound puppy and a sympathetic priest who helps train the dog to become a champion racer. For Felipe (Roger Mobley), every day above ground is cause Read More

Hitch Hike to Heaven

Actors: Henrietta Crosman, Herbert Rawlinson, Russell Gleason, Polly Ann Young, Al Shean

Synopsis: Virtually all of the Chesterfield Pictures efforts of the 1930s served as starring vehicles for Hollywood's best character actors. It was Henrietta Crossman who headed the cast of the 1936 Chesterfield production Hitch Hike to Heaven, sharing star billing with former silent-movie matinee idol Herbert Rawlinson Read More

The Big Cage

Actors: Clyde Beatty, Anita Page, Andy Devine, Vince Barnett, Raymond Hatton

Synopsis: Renowned animal-trainer Clyde Beatty plays himself as a circus owner in this adventure that centers on an enthusiastic youth who idolizes Beatty. The story's highlight is a fight with the lions and tigers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Soldiers of the Storm

Actors: Regis Toomey, Anita Page, Barbara Weeks, Robert Ellis, Wheeler Oakman

Synopsis: Much of this exciting crime drama is set aboard an airplane in which a brave hero does battle with a gang of smugglers. Meanwhile, the hero's girl friend joins the gang, but later quits before they are arrested and imprisoned. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

After Midnight

Actors: Alan Dinehart, Gertrude Astor, Matthew Betz, Eddie Boland

Synopsis: I Have Lived takes place in a New York penthouse, a Broadway theater, and a seedy speakeasy, though not necessarily in that order. Alan Dinehart essays one of his rare leading roles as Thomas Langley, a brilliant playwright whose career has taken off like a skyrocket. Experiencing an attack of Read More

Jungle Bride

Actors: Anita Page, Charles Starrett, Ken Thomson, Eddie Borden, Clarence Geldert

Synopsis: A shipwreck strands a newpaperman, his fiancee, and a man falsely accused of murder, on an African island. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Prosperity

Actors: Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Anita Page, Norman Foster, Jacquie Lyn

Synopsis: A family full of financiers is saved from fiscal ruin by their resourceful matriarch. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Under Eighteen

Actors: Marian Marsh, Regis Toomey, Warren William, Anita Page, Emma Dunn

Synopsis: A wealthy theatrical producer entices a desperately poor young woman to visit his penthouse. The innocent girl doesn't realize that the lecherous fellow is planning to do much more than have a drink with her. Fortunately, her friend the grocery boy isn't so naive and manages to arrive in the nick Read More

Night Court

Actors: Phillips Holmes, Walter Huston, Anita Page, Mary Carlisle

Synopsis: Night Court is one of those pictures that "hooks" the viewer with one audacious plot twist after another. Walter Huston is eminently hissable as Judge Moffett, a corrupt jurist who has managed to buy off practically everyone in town, all the while maintaining a facade of respectability. When Read More

Are You Listening?

Actors: William Haines, Madge Evans, Anita Page, Karen Morley, Neil Hamilton

Synopsis: "Are you listening?" was the catchphrase of early-1930s radio personality Tony Wons. Though Wons does not appear in the 1932 MGM programmer Are You Listening?, the film is concerned with the burgeoning broadcast industry. William Haines plays a wise-cracking radio writer who is tricked into Read More

Skyscraper Souls

Actors: Warren William, Maureen O'Sullivan, Gregory Ratoff, Anita Page, Veree Teasdale, Jean Hersholt

Synopsis: Produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Production for MGM, this well made Grand Hotel clone was based on a 1931 novel by Faith Baldwin. Warren William stars as David Dwight, a building and bank magnate who not only attempts to double-cross his backers but is two-timing both his wife Read More

The Sidewalks of New York

Actors: Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Cliff Edwards, Norman Phillips, Frank Rowan

Synopsis: Buster Keaton once described his 1931 vehicle Sidewalks of New York as "God-awful"; it's hardly that bad, though admittedly it pales in comparison with his silent classics. Keaton plays Harmon, a wealthy young Park Avenue socialite who falls in love with Lower East Side denizen Margie (Anita Read More

Gentleman's Fate

Actors: John Gilbert, Louis Wolheim, Leila Hyams, Anita Page, Marie Prevost

Synopsis: Silent screen star John Gilbert had a tough time adapting to the talkies--not due to his voice, as is commonly believed, but because his type of florid romantic fare was no longer popular. Gentleman's Fate attempted to alter Gilbert's image by casting him as a bootlegger...albeit a reluctant one. Read More

Reducing

Actors: Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Anita Page, Lucien Littlefield

Synopsis: In this slapstick comedy set in a posh beauty salon, the owner asks her matronly sister, a postman's wife, to come and visit. She does, and brings her lovely daughter along with her. This creates problems when the fiancé of the owner's daughter falls in love with the daughter of her sister. Read More

The Easiest Way

Actors: Constance Bennett, Adolphe Menjou, Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis: In this melodrama that was considered utterly scandalous in its day, an impoverished, beautiful young ghetto girl quickly learns that she can get to Easy Street on her back. Her indecent journey begins when a scout discovers her working in a department store. He gets her signed up to a modeling Read More

Free and Easy

Actors: Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Trixie Friganza, Robert Montgomery, Fred Niblo

Synopsis: Buster Keaton's talkie debut (discounting his non-speaking guest appearance in Hollywood Revue of 1929) was Free and Easy, an uneven but generally amusing comedy with a Hollywood setting. When pretty Elvira (Anita Page) of Gopher City, Kansas wins a beauty contest, her prize includes a trip to Read More

War Nurse

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Robert Ames, June Walker, Anita Page, ZaSu Pitts

Synopsis: War Nurse was based on the anonymous memoirs of an American nurse who served with the French Army during WWI. Since the nurse's recollections included several sexual episodes, the book gained a degree of notoriety, and it was assumed that the material was too "hot" to be adapted to film. But MGM Read More

The Little Accident

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Anita Page, Sally Blane, ZaSu Pitts, Joan Marsh

Synopsis: Based on a play by Floyd Dell and Thomas Mitchell, Little Accident stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as bridegroom-to-be Norman Overbeck. On the eve of his wedding to Madge (Sally Blane), Norman is visited by his first wife Isabel (Anita Page), who tells him that he's just become a father. Stuck with a Read More

Caught Short

Actors: Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Anita Page, Charles Morton

Synopsis: Sparring landladies provide the focus of this comedy. The two women are constantly competing to take in the most boarders at their respective homes. Though outwardly jealous rivals, the women are actually best friends. The competition gets more intense when one woman's daughter falls for the Read More

Navy Blues

Actors: William Haines, Anita Page, Karl Dane, J.C. Nugent, Wade Boteler

Synopsis: MGM house director Clarence Brown's first all-talkie, this pleasantly innocuous comedy drama stars William Haines as Jack Kelly, a carefree sailor picking up innocent Alice Brown (Anita Page) at a Ladies' Uplift Society Dance. Their whirlwind romance, however, ends abruptly when the girl's mother (Edythe Chapman Read More

Our Blushing Brides

Actors: Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Anita Page

Synopsis: Having starred in Our Dancing Daughters (28) and Our Modern Maidens (30), the next logical step for Joan Crawford was Our Blushing Brides (30). Crawford is featured with her Dancing Daughters costars Dorothy Sebastian and Anita Page in this tale of three roommates trying to make good in the Big Read More

Hollywood Revue of 1929

Synopsis: With the arrival of talkies, every major studio hopped on the musical bandwagon by turning out lavish "revues," spotlighting their top stars performing specialty numbers. MGM's entry in this all-star genre was Hollywood Revue of 1929, which, though a box-office smash and a "Best Picture" Oscar Read More

The Flying Fleet

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Ralph Graves, Anita Page, Eddie Nugent, Carroll Nye

Synopsis: Flying Fleet was one of the first script-writing efforts of Lt. Commander Frank "Spig" Wead, who came to Hollywood after the crippling accident that ended his naval career (Wead's life story was later romanticized in the 1957 John Ford picture The Wings of Eagles). Evidently, Wead's favorite story Read More

The Flying Feet

Synopsis: This drama tells the victories and defeats of 6 U.S. Navy Academy graduates at flying school working to win their wings. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Speedway

Actors: William Haines, Anita Page, Karl Dane, Ernest Torrence, John Miljan

Synopsis: This cookie-cutter William Haines vehicle was filmed in part at the Indianapolis Speedway. As usual, Haines plays a fresh young braggart, in this instance a cocky racecar driver. Somewhere along the line, he falls in love with Anita Page, the daughter of an airplane manufacturer. After a dash in Read More

Our Modern Maidens

Actors: Joan Crawford, Rod La Rocque, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Anita Page, Eddie Nugent

Synopsis: This follow-up to MGM's 1928 hit Our Dancing Daughters reunites the female stars of the earlier film: Joan Crawford (in her last silent film) and Anita Page. Crawford is engaged to Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (her real-life husband at the time), but both she and her fiance fall in love with other people Read More

The Broadway Melody

Actors: Anita Page, Bessie Love, Charles King, Jed Prouty, Ken Thomson

Synopsis: This landmark MGM backstage musical of the early sound era about broken dreams on the Great White Way features a bevy of standards by the songwriting team of Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown. Freed later became unit producer of the legendary Freed Unit at MGM, which is the reason many of the Read More

Our Dancing Daughters

Actors: Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Dorothy Sebastian, Anita Page, Kathlyn Williams

Synopsis: Even those who can't recall the plot of the silent Our Dancing Daughters (and there admittedly isn't much to remember) can never forget the indelible images of Joan Crawford tearing loose with one Charleston after another. Since everyone in the film is rich, the wild parties that dominate Our Read More

Telling the World

Actors: William Haines, Anita Page, Eileen Percy, Frank Currier, Polly Moran

While the City Sleeps

Actors: Lon Chaney, Anita Page, Carroll Nye, Wheeler Oakman, Mae Busch

Synopsis: Lon Chaney Sr. eschews his trademarked makeup in the MGM crime melodrama While the City Sleeps. The plot is sparked by the misbehavior of heroine Myrtle (Anita Page), who enjoys rubbing shoulders with gangsters like Skeeter (Wheeler Oakman). When she learns too much about Skeeter's set-up, Myrtle Read More

A Kiss for Cinderella

Actors: Betty Bronson, Tom Moore, Esther Ralston

Synopsis: As a whimsical adaption of James M. Barrie's stage version of the Cinderella story, this film was not immediately appreciated for the magic created by its cinematography. It has become a classic masterpiece, in the genre of similar films like Peter Pan. The story begins with a very young woman (Betty Bronson Read More