Post by Mr. Doubletake on Jan 4, 2009 14:25:29 GMT
Anita Garvin (February 11, 1907 - July 7,1994) was born in New York City. Anita began her career on the stage as a young girl, appearing in the Ziegfeld Follies. After some years working and touring with vaudeville, she went into films where she first got a job with Al Christie. Later, she went to work for Hal Roach and appeared in films with, among others, Mabel Normand, Zasu Pitts, Charley Chase and Thelma Todd.
It is her work, however, with Laurel in Hardy in some of their best short films, like Blotto and Be big, for which Anita will probably be best remembered.
In the late thirties, Anita later quit films to settle down and have a family when she married band leader Red Stanley. The marriage lasted happily 49 years, up until his death, and Anita always a maintained great loyalty, love and affection for him.
At the age of 87, Anita passed away in 1994 at the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, CA.
Laurel & Hardy Filmography:
SILENT SHORTS
Why girls love sailors (Captain's Wife)
With love & hisses (Officer's Lady)
Sailors, Beware! (Jewel thief)
Hats off (Customer)
Their purple moment (Night club floozie)
From Soup to Nuts (Mrs. Culpepper)
Battle of the Century (Girl who sits on pie)
TALKIE SHORTS
Blotto (Mrs. Laurel)
Be big! (Mrs Laurel)
FEATURES
Swiss Miss (townperson)
A Chump at Oxford (Mrs. Vandervere)
Although she is greatly missed, she will not be forgotten.
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