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