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