Anita Page
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American film actress, born 1910. A popular MGM star of the early sound era, she played Queenie Mahoney in The Broadway Melody (1929) and appeared in The Hollywood Revue of 1929. Her career peaked almost as fast as it began; she retired from the screen in the mid-1930s and returned decades later for a handful of late-career roles.
Acted In
Drama, Romance
A 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama directed by Harry Beaumont, starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, and Dorothy Sebastian. Three small-town girls — Gerry (Crawford), Connie (Page), and Franky (Sebastian) — share an apartment in New York City while working at Jardine's Department Store, each seeking a wealthy husband. While Connie and Franky are reckless with their affections, Gerry is determined to remain practical, resisting the advances of the store owner's son Tony Jardine (Montgomery) even as she falls for him. The film was Crawford's first "shopgirl Cinderella" role, marking a transition from her flapper persona of the silent era to the more sophisticated image MGM would develop for her throughout the 1930s.
Drama · Romance
Our Blushing Brides
1930 - as Connie Blair
Comedy, Drama
A late-silent MGM comedy-drama released with a synchronized musical score but no spoken dialogue, and Joan Crawford's final film without talking. She plays Billie Brown, a flapper who believes herself in love with one man while another pines for her, with Rod La Rocque, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Anita Page rounding out the quartet. Fairbanks and Crawford married during production, and the film's party sequence features his impersonations of contemporary stars. As a work published before 1930, it is in the public domain in the United States.
Comedy · Drama · Romance
Our Modern Maidens
1929 - as Kentucky Strafford
Musical, Romance
The first sound film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, and MGM's first all-talking musical. Two sisters from the vaudeville act the Mahoney Sisters, Hank and Queenie, arrive in New York chasing a spot in a Broadway revue. Hank's sweetheart, the songwriter Eddie Kearns, promises them a break, but the plot turns on the oldest showbiz story there is: the man falls for the wrong sister. Bessie Love's performance as the self-sacrificing Hank earned an Oscar nomination. The film is creaky by modern standards, but its success proved that audiences would sit through a feature of synchronized song and dialogue, and it set off the Hollywood musical gold rush that defined the early sound era. Published in 1929, it entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2025.
Musical · Romance · Drama
The Broadway Melody
1929 - as Queenie Mahoney