Anita Page - From Flaming Youth Films to A Fulfilled Life

[@teetarquin7012]

Wasn’t she so gracious when speaking about her co-stars? What a lovely lady.

[@juliusmaloney]

Love the way Anita thinks Ramone Navarro & William Haines both “fancied” her...god love her. 😂

[@scotnick59]

Yes: more than likely, they fancied each other!...lol

[@garymazzeo3490]

@@scotnick59 The poor girl can dream, can't she?

[@frankgonzalezofficial3010]

Lol

[@bjohme2237]

Hilarious!

[@derrickkimmons1814]

What a charming lady and wonderful sense of humor.

[@carolynkingsley4421]

Good information. This was like attending an acting class. She was full of her subject.

[@rogersmith4834]

Ms. Page co-starred with my boss, Clyde Beatty, in his first feature film, THE BIG CAGE (Universal, 1933). Also starring was the veteran character actor Raymond Hatton, and 13-year-old Mickey Rooney, playing a boy of 9.

[@Norwayson]

Great actress! Fun to listen to her stories, a filmhistorians dream 🌹

[@balcon983]

Love love her.

[@aldogandia3832]

"The peas are canned."😂😍😂

[@retire14pattaya9]

Great sense of humor

[@sharpear1031]

She has a quality that reminds me of Jane Russell believe it or not.

[@drewknight7126]

I hate to say it but Drag Queen?

[@Robotina-e8u]

@@drewknight7126 How nasty!

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

In the sense that she was overshadowed by her costar

[@sharksport01]

"I had never had a drink in my life, but I was the most intoxicated gal you ever saw"

[@antoniosucco4452]

A beautiful lady

[@juliusmaloney]

Both Gilbert’s & Haines careers were “ruined” for more reasons than their voices. While Gilbert did record badly, having been given Shakespeare as his sound debut, it was his drinking & fraught relationship with Louis B Mayer that led to his downfall. William Haines career was also brought to a close after huge success through both silent Silents & Sound, because he refused to hide his homosexuality or his relationship with his partner, so Mayer cancelled his contract (he would go on to have a very successful interior design business).

[@TransVangal]

Was this never aired before this posting?

[@t4texastom587]

She was 🔥HOT🔥 in her day

[@jbenziggy]

She really was!

[@jetpilot3714]

Smoking hot!

[@Weeeewriter]

*What a nice lady!*

[@gonvf91]

Perhaps this is the best interview we got from her. It was made in 1996, long before she started to claim that her career went wrong cause she declined Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg's sexual advances. It's quite obvious that, by that time she was suffering from dementia. It's highly interesting how she kept claiming that William Haines and Ramon Novarro fancied her when she was perfectly aware that both were gay (she even spent her final years surrounded by a group of gay men that took care of her). So, maybe she was just keeping the fact that both were gay for pure loyalty reasons (she was friends with both). What we'll never know if Haines actually proposed to Anita in an attempt to maintain his career.

[@Hihoweryew]

We have absolutely no reason to doubt that anything she says is false. Many of her colleagues have mentioned that Mayer was a predator and the casting couch was real. Ann Miller said in an interview with Robert Osbourne that when she was 16 he wanted to marry her. When she turned him down he actually started crying and never spoke to her again. 😮 😅.

[@Marketoromagnolo]

sorry can't understand what she is telling about joan Crawford and Novarro

[@akrenwinkle]

I'm not being political, just making an observation. My hubby and I were watching and at 00:27 we burst out laughing: "Joe Biden!"

[@bigbandsrock1]

She was quite an actress. Wish they had interviewed her when she was younger. She is difficult to follow.

[@ErelfBow]

She says Billy Haines had a crush on her. Wasn't he gay? 🤔

[@QueenOfTheNorth65]

Yes. She claimed both he and Ramon Novarro (also gay) asked her to marry them. 😉

[@ccowley2740]

Yes, he was.

[@macvoutie]

You'll notice she wouldn't say a bad word about any of the stars mentioned and that's because she comes from that era of the studios (when the studios ruled not just America but the world cinema) and that was the time when everything was intentionally hushed up (unless a star got into a mess that made the papers) and if you were under contract it was ingrained into you to not "tell tales out of school." She's living up to the public image and in turn putting the spotlight on herself as a center of attention.

[@MovieJon]

@@QueenOfTheNorth65 Billy Haines was under pressure from L.B. Mayer to marry someone (anyone!) to cover up - or perhaps even cure! - his homosexuality. He liked Anita and figured she might be a possibility, but it's surely for the best that she declined. He finally walked away from his career in order to stay with his partner, a very long-term relationship.

[@briansilkworth5486]

She glossed right over that potential topic. Likely because they protected each other back then.

[@jimrick6632]

WHERE DID THEY FIND THIS INTERVIEWER????? NOT GOOD....

[@hooterwah00]

who interviewed her

[@sharksport01]

nurse ratchett.

[@garymazzeo3490]

Baby Jane Hudson??

[@catlover34fl]

OMG!!! LOL!!!

[@t4texastom587]

lol.....a little bit 👍

[@DennisleeCleven-eh1om]

The Flying Fleet is NOT a Talkie!

[@TransVangal]

She was kind of repeating herself over and over 😢I wonder why😮