Anita Louise

Anita Louise
Anita Louise
	Louise in 1931
Born	Anita Louise Fremault; January 9, 1915; New York City, U.S.
Died	April 25, 1970 (aged 55); Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale
Other names	Anita Fremault
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1922–1970
Spouses	; Buddy Adler (m. 1940; died 1960) ; Henry Berger; (m. 1962)
Children	2

Anita Louise (born Anita Louise Fremault; January 9, 1915 – April 25, 1970) was an American film and television actress best known for her performances in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935), Anthony Adverse (1936), Marie Antoinette (1938), and The Little Princess (1939). She was named as a WAMPAS Baby Star.

Life and career

Louise was born on January 9, 1915, in New York City,^[1] the daughter of Louis and Ann Fremault.^[2] She attended the Professional Children's School.^[3] She made her acting debut on Broadway at the age of seven, in Peter Ibbetson.^[4] Louise appeared in the 1922 film Down to the Sea in Ships.^[5] She made her first credited screen debut at the age of nine in the film The Sixth Commandment (1924). In 1929, Louise dropped her surname, billing herself only by first and second names.

In the same 1937 St. Louis Star-Times interview referenced above, she is quoted as saying: "When I was nine...Mother and I walked out of the Bristol Hotel in Vienna and I was lifted off my feet by a man, who ran a few steps and threw me, bodily, into a waiting automobile...two hotel attaches came to the rescue...The hotel manager warned my mother that thirty children had been seized and hurried across the Italian frontier where they were sold...later to become white slaves when old enough."

As her stature in Hollywood grew, she was named a WAMPAS Baby Star. Her reputation was enhanced by her role as Hollywood society hostess, with her parties attended by the elite of Hollywood and widely and regularly reported in the news media.^{[citation needed]}

Among her film successes were Madame Du Barry (1934), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935), Anthony Adverse (1936), Marie Antoinette (1938), The Sisters (1938), and The Little Princess (1939).

By the 1940s, she was reduced to mostly secondary roles, and her film career started to slow. Some of her films during this time are Casanova Brown (1944), Nine Girls (1944), The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946), Blondie's Big Moment (1947), and Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1947). Her last appearance in movies was in the 1952 war film Retreat, Hell!

Reduced to minor roles, she acted infrequently until the advent of television in the 1950s provided her with further opportunities. She played Nell McLaughlin in the television series My Friend Flicka from 1956 to 1957, with co-stars Johnny Washbrook, Gene Evans, and Frank Ferguson.^[6] She was substitute host of The Loretta Young Show (1953) when Loretta Young was recuperating from surgery.^{[citation needed]} In 1957, she was host of Theater Time on ABC-TV.^[6]^: 1068 Other shows which she hosted included The United States Steel Hour (1962) and Playhouse 90 (1957). Her last television appearance was in a 1970 episode of the Mod Squad.

Personal life and death

Louise's husband, film producer Buddy Adler, whom she married on May 18, 1940,^[4] died in 1960.^[1] They had two children. She married Henry Berger in 1962. Louise died of a stroke on April 25, 1970, in Los Angeles, California. She was buried next to Adler at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.^[7] She was 55 years old.

Louise has a star at 6821 Hollywood Boulevard in the Motion Pictures section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame in recognition of her contribution to films.^[8]

A Republican, she supported Dwight Eisenhower's campaign during the 1952 presidential election.^[9]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1922	Down to the Sea in Ships		Uncredited
1924	The Sixth Commandment		Lost film
1924	Lend Me Your Husband
1925	The Street of Forgotten Men	Flower Girl	Uncredited Incomplete film, missing reel 2
1926	The Untamed Lady		Lost film
1927	The Music Master		Lost film
1927	Memories		Short subject
1928	4 Devils	Louise	Lost film
1928	A Woman of Affairs	Diana as a Child	Uncredited
1929	The Spirit of Youth	Toodles Ewing
	Square Shoulders	Mary Jane Williams
	Wonder of Women	Lottie	Lost film
	The Marriage Playground	Blanca Wheater
1930	The Florodora Girl	Vibart Child
	What a Man	Marion Kilbourne
	Just Like Heaven	Mimi Martell
	The Third Alarm	Milly Morton
1931	The Great Meadow	Betty Hall
	Millie	Constance 'Connie' Maitland
	Everything's Rosie	Rosie Droop
	The Woman Between	Helen Weston
	Heaven On Earth	Towhead
1932	The Phantom of Crestwood	Esther Wren
1933	Our Betters	Elizabeth 'Bessie' Saunders
1934	The Most Precious Thing in Life	Patty O'Day
	Are We Civilized?	Norma Bockner
	Madame DuBarry	Marie Antoinette
	Cross Streets	Clara Grattan
	I Give My Love	Lorna March
	Judge Priest	Ellie May Gillespie
	The Firebird	Mariette Pointer
	Bachelor of Arts	Mimi Smith
1935	Lady Tubbs	Wynne Howard
	Here's to Romance	Lydia Lubov
	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Titania, Queen of the Fairies
	Personal Maid's Secret	Diana Abercrombie
1936	The Story of Louis Pasteur	Annette Pasteur
	Brides Are Like That	Hazel Robinson
	Anthony Adverse	Maria
1937	Green Light	Phyllis Dexter
	Call It a Day	Joan Collett, the maid
	The Go Getter	Margaret Ricks
	That Certain Woman	Florence 'Flip' Carson Merrick
	First Lady	Emmy Page
	Tovarich	Helene Dupont
1938	My Bill	Muriel Colbrook
	Marie Antoinette	Princesse de Lamballe
	The Sisters	Helen Elliot Johnson
	Going Places	Ellen Parker
1939	The Little Princess	Rose Hamilton
	The Gorilla	Norma Denby
	These Glamour Girls	Daphne 'Daph' Graves
	Hero for a Day	Sylvia Higgins
	Main Street Lawyer	Honey Boggs
	Reno	Mrs. Joanne Ryder
1940	Wagons Westward	Phyllis O'Conover
	Glamour for Sale	Ann Powell
	The Villain Still Pursued Her	Mary Wilson
1941	The Phantom Submarine	Madeline Neilson
	Two in a Taxi	Bonnie
	Harmon of Michigan	Peggy Adams
1943	Dangerous Blondes	Julie Taylor
1944	Nine Girls	Paula Canfield
1944	Casanova Brown	Madge Ferris
1945	Love Letters	Helen Wentworth
1946	The Fighting Guardsman	Amelie de Montrevel
	The Bandit of Sherwood Forest	Lady Catherine Maitland
	The Devil's Mask	Janet Mitchell
	Personality Kid	Laura Howard
	Shadowed	Carol Johnson
1947	Blondie's Big Moment	Miss Gary
1947	Bulldog Drummond at Bay	Doris Hamilton
1952	Retreat, Hell!	Ruth Hansen

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1950	Stars Over Hollywood		Episode: "Landing at Daybreak"
1952	Footlights Theater		1 episodes
1952–1955	The Ford Television Theatre	Mother / Marie McCoy / Mrs. Lindsey	3 episodes
1953	Your Favorite Story	Julia	Episode: "The Magician"
1955	Lux Video Theatre	Beatrice Page	Episode: "Forever Female"
1956	My Friend Flicka	Nell McLaughlin	39 episodes
1956	Ethel Barrymore Theatre		Episode: "Dear Miss Lovelace"
1957	The Millionaire	Nancy Wellington	Episode: "The Nancy Wellington Story"
1957	Playhouse 90	Mabel Seymour Greer	Episode: "The Greer Case"
1957	Letter to Loretta	Laura	Episode: "Power Play"
1962	The United States Steel Hour	Mrs. McCabe	Episode: "Far from the Shade Tree"
1969	Mannix	Althea Greene	Episode: "Missing: Sun and Sky"
1970	The Mod Squad	Grace Cochran	Episode: "Call Back Yesterday", (final appearance)

References

^ ^a ^b "Anita Louise". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
^ Brundidge, Harry T. (March 5, 1937). "Hollywood's Most Beautiful Actress". St. Louis Star-Times. p. 16. Retrieved July 24, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Adams, Marjory (May 23, 1946). "Movie Question Box". The Boston Globe. p. 20. Retrieved July 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b "Anita Louise In Coloroto". New York Daily News. November 2, 1941. p. 39C. Retrieved July 24, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Monush, Barry (2003). Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the silent era to 1965. Hal Leonard Corporation. pp. 438–439. ISBN 978-1-5578-3551-2. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
^ ^a ^b Terrace, Vincent (January 10, 2014). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. p. 730. ISBN 978-0-7864-8641-0. Retrieved February 13, 2022.
^ Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2. McFarland & Company (2016) ISBN 0786479922
^ "Anita Louise". Hollywood Walk of Fame. Archived from the original on July 24, 2018. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
^ Motion Picture and Television Magazine. November 1952. Page 34.