2 months ago 08th Sep 14:14
Anita Page, one of the few surviving stars of silent cinema, has died in her sleep this weekend aged ninety eight.
She began her career in 1925 working in extra roles on movies such as A Kiss for Cinderella and Love 'Em and Leave 'Em before breaking into silent cinema with Our Dancing Daughters.
Starring Alongside Joan Crawford Our Dancing Daughters follows Diana (Crawford) and Ann (Page) who both fight for the attention of Ben Blaine (Johnny Mack Brown) but he marries Ann.
But Ben and Diana realise that they are in love with one another and after Ann falls to her death due to drunkenness they can be together.
1929 film The Broadway Melody was also a major success for the actress who at this time was making the transition into talking pictures.
The Broadway Melody was the first sound picture to win an Academy Award for Best Picture and until this weekend Anita Page was the last known living attendee of those very first Academy Awards in 1929.
She became one of Hollywood's busiest and most popular actresses throughout the late twenties early thirties starring alongside the likes of Busta Keaton and Clark Gable, with whom she was romantically linked at the time.
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