Anita Page

 Anita Page (August 4, 1910 – September 6, 2008)

She was a film actress who reached stardom in the last years of the silent film era. Page became a highly popular young star, reportedly receiving the most fan mail of anyone on the MGM lot. She was referred to as "a blond, blue-eyed Latin" and "the girl with the most beautiful face in Hollywood" in the 1920's. She was the leading lady to Lon Chaney, Buster Keaton, Robert Montgomery, and Clark Gable (among others) and during the early 1930's, she was one of Hollywood's busiest actresses. Her performances in her second MGM film, Our Dancing Daughters (1928) opposite Joan Crawford, and The Broadway Melody (1929) opposite Bessie Love were her greatest successes of the period, and her popularity allowed her to make a smooth transition into talking pictures. She retired from acting in 1936. Page married her second husband the following year with whom she had two children. Page returned to acting sixty years later in 1996, and appeared in four low budget films in the 2000's. Page died in her sleep on September 6, 2008 at her Los Angeles home, at the age of 98. She is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in San Diego, CA.