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