My friend MGM star (c1928–32) Anita Page turns 93 today. She is in very poor health, poor dear, though she is very well looked-after by her “Max.” I must give her a call tonight she see how she’s doing.
Anita was a rising young starlet in the late silent/early talkie era at MGM, and has great stories about working with Buster Keaton, Joan Crawford, Lon Chaney, John Gilbert, Clark Gable (she was his first leading lady), Billy Haines, Ramon Novarro . . . She was an excellent dramatic actress (especially in Our Dancing Daughters and Night Court), but she was so kewpie-doll pretty that they rarely gave her a role she could really tear into. She’s also a really nice gal with never a bad word to say about anyone (which is why she could never get her memoirs published).
Here are her IMDB listing (notice she’s done some recent video crap, as a favor to a friend), a photo gallery, and the Anita pages.