Anita Blanch (1907 - 1983)

Actress. She was born in Valencia (Comunidad Valenciana, Spain) and died in México D.F. (México). She and her sister founded a stage company, touring for Argentina, Venezuela and finally Mexico, where they stablished. She also appeared in cinema and television. She is best remembered in works such as El Conde de Montecristo (1942), La Virgen […]

Anita Borg (1949 - 2003)

She was born Anita Borg Naffz in Chicago, Illinois. She grew up in Palatine, Illinois; Kaneohe, Hawaii; and Mukilteo, Washington. Anita Borg got her first programming job in 1969. Although she loved math while growing up, she did not originally intend to go into computer science and taught herself to program while working at a […]

Anita Carter (1933 - 1999)

Anita Carter Born in Maces Spring, Virginia, she scored two Top Ten hits in 1951 with “Down The Trail of Achin’ Hearts” with Hank Snow at No. 2 and “Blue Bird Island” at No. 4. She reached the Top Ten again in 1968 with “I Got You” with Waylon Jennings at No. 4. Other solo […]

Anita Cobby (1959 - 1986)

Anita Cobby was born on 2 November 1959, to Garry Bernard Lynch, a graphic artist with the Royal Australian Air Force, and Grace “Peggy” Lynch, a nurse. As a teenager she participated in beauty pageants and had a promising career as a model, but decided instead to follow in her mother’s footsteps and become a […]

Anita Ekberg (1931 - 2015)

Anita Ekberg Born Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg, she will be best remembered for her performance in the film “La Dolce Vita” (1960) by Federico Fellini. During her career she starred in over 70 films including “Abbott and Costello Go to Mars” by Charles Lamont (1953), “Blood Alley” by William A. Wellman, “Artists and Models” co-starring […]

Anita Garvin (1907 - 1994)

Actress. She is best-remembered for playing shrewish wives and haughty society ladies in Laurel and Hardy comedies. Armed with a withering sneer and sometimes with a shotgun, she was an incomparable foil for Stan and Ollie in such films as “The Battle of the Century” (1927), “From Soup To Nuts” (1928), “Blotto” (1930), and “Be […]

Anita Louise (1915 - 1970)

Anita Louise (January 9, 1915 – April 25, 1970) was an American film actress best known for her performances in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935), The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935), and Anthony Adverse (1936). Anita Louise Fremault was born on January 9, 1915 in New York City. She made her acting debut on Broadway at […]

Anita Morris (1943 - 1994)

Among many roles, Morris’s most prominent film role was as Carol Dodsworth, the mistress to Danny DeVito, in Ruthless People and for her sensual performance as Carla in the musical Nine opposite Raul Julia. While nominated for a Best Featured Actress Tony Award as Carla, she lost to Liliane Montevecchi, also in Nine. 21 years […]

Anita Mui (1963 - 2003)

Mui experienced much hardship in her childhood. She was the youngest daughter in a family of four children. Her elder sister, Ann Mui, was also a singer. The children were raised in a single parent family. In some of her interviews, Mui mentioned that she had never met her father. This meant that she had […]

Anita Page (1910 - 2008)

She was born Anita Evelyn Pomares to Marino, Sr. and Maude (née Mullane) Pomares. She had one brother, Marino Jr., who later worked for her as a gym instructor while her mother worked as her secretary and her father as her chauffeur. Of Salvadoran ancestry, Page’s grandfather was a consul from El Salvador.  Page entered […]

Anita Page (1910 - 2008)

Actress. Scintillating screen idol of late silents and early talkies. Born Anita Evelyn Pomares,  she made her movie debut as an extra in “A Kiss for Cinderella” (1925) and was signed by MGM in 1928. Page rocketed to fame playing a ravenous, gold-digging flapper in the jazz age classic “Our Dancing Daughters” (1928), co-starring Joan […]

Anita Pallenberg (1942 - 2017)

Anita Pallenberg appeared in over a dozen films over a 40-year span. One of her first appearances was as the Great Tyrant in Roger Vadim’s science fiction film Barbarella (1968); the character’s voice was dubbed by Joan Greenwood. She played the sleeper wife of Michel Piccoli in Dillinger Is Dead (1969), directed by Marco Ferreri. […]

Anita Palmero (1902 - 1987)

Singer. Noted female tango singer who achieved popularity during the 1930s. She was born in Málaga, Spain, and came to Argentina circa 1925. (bio by: Guada)

Anita Stewart (1902 - 1961)

Actress. She performed in silent motion pictures for Vitagraph Studios. She signed with LB Mayer before her contract with Vitagraph expired resulting in a landmark lawsuit. She began her career in motion pictures at Edison’s Vitagraph Studio on Long Island . She later moved to Hollywood as the premier star in Louis B. Mayer’s company. […]

Ann B. Davis (1926 - 2014)

American Actress. Ann Davis achieved prominence for her role in The Bob Cummings Show for which she twice won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, but she is best known for playing the part of Alice Nelson, the housekeeper in The Brady Bunch series. (bio by: David Peltier)

Ann Carter (1936 - 2014)

Child Actress. Carter was discovered at the age of four while she and her mother were riding on a bus in Los Angeles, by a 20th Century-Fox employee who introduced her to producer-director Herbert Brenon, who she auditioned for and landed a role in 1941’s ‘The Last of the Duanes’. Although she will best remembered […]

Ann Codee (1890 - 1961)

Belgian-born vaudeville, motion picture, and television actress of the 1920s through the 1960s. Performed in vaudeville with her husband, actor Frank Orth, in an act billed as “Codee & Orth.” The two appeared together in a series of movie shorts between 1929 and 1931.  (bio by: A.J. Marik)

Ann Davis (1926 - 2014)

Ann Davis Davis was born in Schenectady, New York, the daughter of Marguerite (née Stott) and Cassius Miles Davis. She had an identical twin, Harriet, and an older brother, Evans.  When Davis was three, she and her family moved to Erie in northwestern Pennsylvania. She graduated from Strong Vincent High School and later from the […]

Ann Dvorak (1911 - 1979)

Anna McKim was born in New York City in 1911 to silent film actress Anna Lehr and actor/director Edwin McKim. While in New York, she attended St. Catherine’s Convent. After moving to California, she attended Page School for Girls in Hollywood. She made her film debut when she was 5 years old in the silent film […]

Ann Harding (1902 - 1981)

Ann Harding Ann Harding, who was known for her stage and screen portrayals of beautiful, aristocratic women in the 1920’s and 30’s, died Tuesday at her home in Sherman Oaks, Calif., after a long illness. She was 79 years old. Miss Harding made her Broadway debut in 1921 in ”Like a King.” In his review […]

Ann Little (1891 - 1984)

Ann Little was born Mary Brooks on a ranch near the town of Mount Shasta, California, she began appearing in a traveling stock theater group after graduating high school. After briefly relocating to San Francisco in the early 1910s, she made the transition to films; first appearing in one-reel Western shorts with actor and director […]

Ann Miller (1923 - 2004)

Johnnie Lucille Collier was born in Chireno, Texas to Clara Emma (née Birdwell) and John Alfred Collier, a criminal lawyer who represented the Barrow Gang, Machine Gun Kelly, and Baby Face Nelson, among others.  Her maternal grandmother was Cherokee. Miller’s father insisted on the name Johnnie because he had wanted a boy, but she was […]

Ann Morgan Guilbert (1928 - 2016)

Ann Morgan Guilbert Ann Morgan Guilbert, beloved as the next-door neighbor on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and seen recently on CBS’ comedy “Life in Pieces,” has died. Guilbert died of cancer in Los Angeles on Tuesday, her daughter Nora Eckstein said. She was 87. Recent TV appearances included a starring role on the hospital comedy “Getting On” […]

Ann Morrison (1916 - 1978)

Actress. A character actress in radio, film and television, Morrison started work on radios serials such as “Lux Theatre,” “Calling All Cars” and “Woman in White.” She also appeared on televsion in “General Hospital” and a number of other shows. Morrison died following a long illness. Morrison appeared in 20 films. (bio by: TLS)

Ann Mui (1959 - 2000)

Chinese Actress. Mui appeared in the films, “Trouble Couple” (1987), “Jackie Chan’s Police Story” (1988), “The Iceman Cometh” (1989), “Burning Ambition” (1989), “Stage Door Johnny” (1990), “Chicken A La Queen” (1990), “Touch And Go” (1991), and her last film, “Farewell My Dearest” (1995). She was the sister of actress Anita Mui. Mui died on April […]

Ann Parkhurst (1908 - 1990)

Dancer and stage actress of the 1930s and 40s. (bio by: A.J. Marik)

Ann Prentiss (1939 - 2010)

Ann Prentiss (November 27, 1939 – January 12, 2010) was an American actress. Prentiss was born Ann Elizabeth Ragusa in San Antonio, Texas, to Thomas and Paulene (née Gardner) Ragusa. Her father was of Sicilian descent. Her elder sister is the actress Paula Prentiss. Prentiss had many bit parts in films and television series in the […]

Ann Richards (1917 - 2006)

Actress.  Shirley Ann Richards was born to an American father and a New Zealand mother and educated in Australia.  Her acting career began at the Sydney Players Club when her amateur talent was recognized by Cimesound Productions.  In 1937 she was given a role in noted Australian producer and director Ken Hall’s film, “It Isn’t […]

Ann Rule (1931 - 2015)

Ann Rae Stackhouse was born on October 22, 1931, in Lowell, Michigan. One of two children of Chester R. Stackhouse and Sophie Marie Hansen, her mother was a teacher, specializing in developmentally disabled children; her father was a sports coach. As Rule did during young adulthood, her family members had careers in law enforcement. Rule’s […]

Ann Rutherford (1917 - 2012)

Rutherford was born in Vancouver, to John Rutherford, a former operatic tenor, and Lucille Mansfield, a silent film actress. While Rutherford was still a baby, the family moved to San Francisco. Soon afterwards, her parents separated and Lucille Mansfield moved to Los Angeles with Ann Rutherford and her sister Judith.  While roller skating home from […]