Anita Louise
Anita Louise | |
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Born | Anita Louise Fremault January 9, 1915 New York City, U.S. |
Died | April 25, 1970 | (aged 55)
Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale |
Other names | Anita Fremault |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1922–1970 |
Spouses | |
Children | 2 |
Anita Louise(bornAnita Louise Fremault;January 9, 1915 – April 25, 1970) was an American film and television actress best known for her performances inA Midsummer Night's Dream(1935),The Story of Louis Pasteur(1935),Anthony Adverse(1936),Marie Antoinette(1938), andThe Little Princess(1939). She was named as aWAMPAS Baby Star.
Life and career
[edit]Louise was born on January 9, 1915, in New York City,[1]the daughter of Louis and Ann Fremault.[2]She attended theProfessional Children's School.[3]She made her acting debut onBroadwayat the age of seven, inPeter Ibbetson.[4]Louise appeared in the 1922 filmDown to the Sea in Ships.[5]She made her first credited screen debut at the age of nine in the filmThe Sixth Commandment(1924). In 1929, Louise dropped her surname, billing herself only by first and second names.
In the same 1937St. Louis Star-Timesinterview referenced above, she is quoted as saying: "When I was nine...Mother and I walked out of the Bristol Hotel in Vienna and I was lifted off my feet by a man, who ran a few steps and threw me, bodily, into a waiting automobile...two hotel attaches came to the rescue...The hotel manager warned my mother that thirty children had been seized and hurried across the Italian frontier where they were sold...later to become white slaves when old enough."
As her stature in Hollywood grew, she was named aWAMPAS Baby Star.Her reputation was enhanced by her role as Hollywood society hostess, with her parties attended by the elite of Hollywood and widely and regularly reported in the news media.[citation needed]
Among her film successes wereMadame Du Barry(1934),A Midsummer Night's Dream(1935),The Story of Louis Pasteur(1935),Anthony Adverse(1936),Marie Antoinette(1938),The Sisters(1938), andThe Little Princess(1939).
By the 1940s, she was reduced to mostly secondary roles, and her film career started to slow. Some of her films during this time areCasanova Brown(1944),Nine Girls(1944),The Bandit of Sherwood Forest(1946),Blondie's Big Moment(1947), andBulldog Drummond at Bay(1947). Her last appearance in movies was in the 1952 war filmRetreat, Hell!
Reduced to minor roles, she acted infrequently until the advent of television in the 1950s provided her with further opportunities. She played Nell McLaughlin in the television seriesMy Friend Flickafrom 1956 to 1957, with co-starsJohnny Washbrook,Gene Evans,andFrank Ferguson.[6]She was substitute host ofThe Loretta Young Show(1953) whenLoretta Youngwas recuperating from surgery.[citation needed]In 1957, she was host ofTheater Timeon ABC-TV.[6]: 1068 Other shows which she hosted includedThe United States Steel Hour(1962) andPlayhouse 90(1957). Her last television appearance was in a 1970 episode of theMod Squad.
Personal life and death
[edit]Louise's husband, film producerBuddy Adler,whom she married on May 18, 1940,[4]died in 1960.[1]They had two children. She married Henry Berger in 1962. Louise died of a stroke on April 25, 1970, in Los Angeles, California. She was buried next to Adler at theForest Lawn Memorial Parkin Glendale, California.[7]She was 55 years old.
Louise has a star at 6821 Hollywood Boulevard in the Motion Pictures section of theHollywood Walk of Famein recognition of her contribution to films.[8]
ARepublican,she supportedDwight Eisenhower's campaign during the1952 presidential election.[9]
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1922 | Down to the Sea in Ships | Uncredited | |
1924 | The Sixth Commandment | Lostfilm | |
Lend Me Your Husband | |||
1925 | The Street of Forgotten Men | Flower Girl | Uncredited Incompletefilm, missing reel 2 |
1926 | The Untamed Lady | Lostfilm | |
1927 | The Music Master | Lostfilm | |
Memories | Short subject | ||
1928 | 4 Devils | Louise | Lostfilm |
A Woman of Affairs | Diana as a Child | Uncredited | |
1929 | The Spirit of Youth | Toodles Ewing | |
Square Shoulders | Mary Jane Williams | ||
Wonder of Women | Lottie | Lostfilm | |
The Marriage Playground | Blanca Wheater | ||
1930 | The Florodora Girl | Vibart Child | |
What a Man | Marion Kilbourne | ||
Just Like Heaven | Mimi Martell | ||
The Third Alarm | Milly Morton | ||
1931 | The Great Meadow | Betty Hall | |
Millie | Constance 'Connie' Maitland | ||
Everything's Rosie | Rosie Droop | ||
The Woman Between | Helen Weston | ||
Heaven On Earth | Towhead | ||
1932 | The Phantom of Crestwood | Esther Wren | |
1933 | Our Betters | Elizabeth 'Bessie' Saunders | |
1934 | The Most Precious Thing in Life | Patty O'Day | |
Are We Civilized? | Norma Bockner | ||
Madame DuBarry | Marie Antoinette | ||
Cross Streets | Clara Grattan | ||
I Give My Love | Lorna March | ||
Judge Priest | Ellie May Gillespie | ||
The Firebird | Mariette Pointer | ||
Bachelor of Arts | Mimi Smith | ||
1935 | Lady Tubbs | Wynne Howard | |
Here's to Romance | Lydia Lubov | ||
A Midsummer Night's Dream | Titania, Queen of the Fairies | ||
Personal Maid's Secret | Diana Abercrombie | ||
1936 | The Story of Louis Pasteur | Annette Pasteur | |
Brides Are Like That | Hazel Robinson | ||
Anthony Adverse | Maria | ||
1937 | Green Light | Phyllis Dexter | |
Call It a Day | Joan Collett, the maid | ||
The Go Getter | Margaret Ricks | ||
That Certain Woman | Florence 'Flip' Carson Merrick | ||
First Lady | Emmy Page | ||
Tovarich | Helene Dupont | ||
1938 | My Bill | Muriel Colbrook | |
Marie Antoinette | Princesse de Lamballe | ||
The Sisters | Helen Elliot Johnson | ||
Going Places | Ellen Parker | ||
1939 | The Little Princess | Rose Hamilton | |
The Gorilla | Norma Denby | ||
These Glamour Girls | Daphne 'Daph' Graves | ||
Hero for a Day | Sylvia Higgins | ||
Main Street Lawyer | Honey Boggs | ||
Reno | Mrs. Joanne Ryder | ||
1940 | Wagons Westward | Phyllis O'Conover | |
Glamour for Sale | Ann Powell | ||
The Villain Still Pursued Her | Mary Wilson | ||
1941 | The Phantom Submarine | Madeline Neilson | |
Two in a Taxi | Bonnie | ||
Harmon of Michigan | Peggy Adams | ||
1943 | Dangerous Blondes | Julie Taylor | |
1944 | Nine Girls | Paula Canfield | |
Casanova Brown | Madge Ferris | ||
1945 | Love Letters | Helen Wentworth | |
1946 | The Fighting Guardsman | Amelie de Montrevel | |
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest | Lady Catherine Maitland | ||
The Devil's Mask | Janet Mitchell | ||
Personality Kid | Laura Howard | ||
Shadowed | Carol Johnson | ||
1947 | Blondie's Big Moment | Miss Gary | |
Bulldog Drummond at Bay | Doris Hamilton | ||
1952 | Retreat, Hell! | Ruth Hansen |
Television
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1950 | Stars Over Hollywood | Episode: "Landing at Daybreak" | |
1952 | Footlights Theater | 1 episodes | |
1952–1955 | The Ford Television Theatre | Mother / Marie McCoy / Mrs. Lindsey | 3 episodes |
1953 | Your Favorite Story | Julia | Episode: "The Magician" |
1955 | Lux Video Theatre | Beatrice Page | Episode: "Forever Female" |
1956 | My Friend Flicka | Nell McLaughlin | 39 episodes |
1956 | Ethel Barrymore Theatre | Episode: "Dear Miss Lovelace" | |
1957 | The Millionaire | Nancy Wellington | Episode: "The Nancy Wellington Story" |
1957 | Playhouse 90 | Mabel Seymour Greer | Episode: "The Greer Case" |
1957 | Letter to Loretta | Laura | Episode: "Power Play" |
1962 | The United States Steel Hour | Mrs. McCabe | Episode: "Far from the Shade Tree" |
1969 | Mannix | Althea Greene | Episode: "Missing: Sun and Sky" |
1970 | The Mod Squad | Grace Cochran | Episode: "Call Back Yesterday", (final appearance) |
References
[edit]- ^ab"Anita Louise".Turner Classic Movies.RetrievedMarch 4,2013.
- ^Brundidge, Harry T. (March 5, 1937)."Hollywood's Most Beautiful Actress".St. Louis Star-Times.p. 16.RetrievedJuly 24,2018– viaNewspapers.com.
- ^Adams, Marjory (May 23, 1946)."Movie Question Box".The Boston Globe.p. 20.RetrievedJuly 23,2018– via Newspapers.com.
- ^ab"Anita Louise In Coloroto".New York Daily News.November 2, 1941. p. 39C.RetrievedJuly 24,2018– via Newspapers.com.
- ^Monush, Barry (2003).Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the silent era to 1965.Hal Leonard Corporation. pp. 438–439.ISBN978-1-5578-3551-2.RetrievedJuly 24,2018.
- ^abTerrace, Vincent (January 10, 2014).Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010(2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. p. 730.ISBN978-0-7864-8641-0.RetrievedFebruary 13,2022.
- ^Wilson, Scott.Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons,3d ed.: 2. McFarland & Company (2016)ISBN0786479922
- ^"Anita Louise".Hollywood Walk of Fame.Archived fromthe originalon July 24, 2018.RetrievedJuly 24,2018.
- ^Motion Picture and Television Magazine.November 1952. Page 34.