Anita Louise
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 9, 1915, New York City, New York, USA
- Died
- April 25, 1970
- Movies
- 76
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1988 | The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Self (archive footage) |
| 1957 | The Greer Case | Mabel Seymour Greer |
| 1952 | Retreat, Hell! | Ruth Hansen |
| 1947 | Bulldog Drummond at Bay | Doris Hamilton / Doris Meredith |
| 1947 | Blondie's Big Moment | Miss Gray |
| 1946 | Shadowed | Carol Johnson |
| 1946 | Personality Kid | Laura Howard |
| 1946 | The Devil's Mask | Janet Mitchell |
| 1946 | The Bandit of Sherwood Forest | Lady Catherine Maitland |
| 1945 | Love Letters | Helen Wentworth |
| 1945 | The Fighting Guardsman | Amelie de Montrevel |
| 1944 | Casanova Brown | Madge Ferris |
| 1944 | Nine Girls | Paula Canfield |
| 1943 | Dangerous Blondes | Julie Taylor |
| 1942 | Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 | Self |
| 1941 | Harmon of Michigan | Peggy Adams |
| 1941 | Two in a Taxi | Bonnie |
| 1940 | The Phantom Submarine | Madeleine Neilson |
| 1940 | The Villain Still Pursued Her | Mary Wilson |
| 1940 | Glamour for Sale | Ann Powell |
| 1940 | Wagons Westward | Phyllis O'Conover |
| 1939 | Reno | Mrs. Joanne Ryder |
| 1939 | Main Street Lawyer | Honey Boggs |
| 1939 | Hero for a Day | Sylvia Higgins |
| 1939 | These Glamour Girls | Daphne Graves |
| 1939 | The Gorilla | Norma Denby |
| 1939 | The Little Princess | Rose |
| 1938 | Going Places | Ellen Parker |
| 1938 | Breakdowns of 1938 | Emmy Page (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1938 | The Sisters | Helen Elliott Johnson |
| 1938 | Marie Antoinette | Princesse de Lamballe |
| 1938 | My Bill | Muriel Colbrook |
| 1937 | Tovarich | Helene Dupont |
| 1937 | First Lady | Emmy Page |
| 1937 | That Certain Woman | Florence 'Flip' Carson Merrick |
| 1937 | The Go-Getter | Margaret Ricks |
| 1937 | Call It a Day | Joan Collett |
| 1937 | Green Light | Phyllis Dexter |
| 1936 | Breakdowns of 1936 | Self |
| 1936 | Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) | Self |
| 1936 | Anthony Adverse | Maria |
| 1936 | Brides Are Like That | Hazel Robinson |
| 1936 | The Making of a Great Motion Picture | |
| 1936 | The Story of Louis Pasteur | Annette Pasteur |
| 1935 | A Dream Comes True | Herself (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Personal Maid's Secret | Diana Abercrombie |
| 1935 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Titania |
| 1935 | Here's to Romance | Lydia Lubov |
| 1935 | Lady Tubbs | Wynne Howard |
| 1934 | The Firebird | Mariette Pointer |
| 1934 | Madame du Barry | Marie Antoinette |
| 1934 | Judge Priest | Ellie May Gillespie |
| 1934 | I Give My Love | Lorna March |
| 1934 | Cross Streets | June Grattan |
| 1934 | Most Precious Thing in Life | Patty O'Day |
| 1934 | Are We Civilized? | Norma Bockner |
| 1933 | Our Betters | Bessie |
| 1932 | The Phantom of Crestwood | Esther Wren |
| 1931 | Heaven on Earth | Towhead |
| 1931 | The Woman Between | Helen Weston |
| 1931 | Everything’s Rosie | Rosie Droop |
| 1931 | Millie | Constance 'Connie' Maitland |
| 1931 | The Great Meadow | Betty Hall |
| 1930 | The Third Alarm | Milly Morton |
| 1930 | Just Like Heaven | Mimi |
| 1930 | What a Man | Marion Kilbourne |
| 1930 | The Florodora Girl | Younger Vibart Daughter |
| 1929 | The Marriage Playground | Blanca Wheater |
| 1929 | Wonder of Women | Lottie, as a child |
| 1929 | Square Shoulders | Mary Jane |
| 1929 | The Spirit of Youth | Toodles Ewing |
| 1928 | A Woman of Affairs | Young Diana (uncredited) |
| 1928 | 4 Devils | Louise as a girl |
| 1926 | The Untamed Lady | |
| 1925 | The Street of Forgotten Men | Flower Girl (uncredited) |
| 1924 | The Sixth Commandment |
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