# Anita Page (1910-2008), last adult silent star **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 7, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anita-page-1910-2008-last-adult-silent-star/462452 "2008-09-07T04:21:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anita-page-1910-2008-last-adult-silent-star/462452/1 "2008-09-07T04:21:42Z")
[Anita Page](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0656105/), the last living adult star of Hollywood’s silent era, [has died at age 98](http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h5uo8HwTxO6Ib4fw9pwbYoUQVVhwD931KQFG0). Her co-stars in the 1920s and 1930s included William Haines, Joan Crawford, Lon Chaney (Sr.), Ramon Novarro, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Buster Keaton, Marie Dressler, Robert Montgomery, Constance Bennett, John Gilbert, Walter Huston, and Maureen O’Sullivan. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anita-page-1910-2008-last-adult-silent-star/462452/2 "2008-09-07T04:35:54Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > [Anita Page](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0656105/), the last living adult star of Hollywood’s silent era, [has died at age 98](http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h5uo8HwTxO6Ib4fw9pwbYoUQVVhwD931KQFG0). > > Her co-stars in the 1920s and 1930s included William Haines, Joan Crawford, Lon Chaney (Sr.), Ramon Novarro, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Buster Keaton, Marie Dressler, Robert Montgomery, Constance Bennett, John Gilbert, Walter Huston, and Maureen O’Sullivan. There were porn stars in silent movies? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anita-page-1910-2008-last-adult-silent-star/462452/3 "2008-09-07T05:15:14Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > There were porn stars in silent movies? :eek: I think the implication is that she, as an adult, starred in silent films. That there may be others still living who starred in silent films but that, younger than Anita Page, they were child stars during the Silent Era. This explanation does seem a little off to me though. If she was born in 1910 she would have been 18 in 1928- about the dawn of talkies. As a silent film star, I think she would have had to have been a silent film child star herself. And yes, there was porn- and I assume porn stars- in the Silent Film Era. Though from the list of co-stars, I assume **Walloon** isn’t offering Anita Page as an example of a porn star- unless “Keaton” is a typo. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anita-page-1910-2008-last-adult-silent-star/462452/4 "2008-09-07T05:29:23Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > This explanation does seem a little off to me though. If she was born in 1910 she would have been 18 in 1928- about the dawn of talkies. As a silent film star, I think she would have had to have been a silent film child star herself. She starred in the silent features _Telling the World_ (1928), _Our Dancing Daughters_ (1928), _While the City Sleeps_ (1928), _The Flying Fleet_ (1929), _Our Modern Maidens_ (1929), and _Speedway_ (1929). She played adult roles in all of them, and was 18 when she made the last three of those. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anita-page-1910-2008-last-adult-silent-star/462452/5 "2008-09-07T09:07:13Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > She starred in the silent features _Telling the World_ (1928), _Our Dancing Daughters_ (1928), _While the City Sleeps_ (1928), _The Flying Fleet_ (1929), _Our Modern Maidens_ (1929), and _Speedway_ (1929). She played adult roles in all of them, and was 18 when she made the last three of those. And I have a copy of My Modern Maidens. I will rewatch to look for her.