I've only seen a couple of other films with Anita Page - "The Broadway Melody" and "Free and Easy". These two films didn't prepare me to see anything all that great from her - but I was pleasantly surprised that she had much more talent than what she displayed in these other two films.
She was fantastic in "Our Dancing Daughters".
She has a flashier role in DAUGHTERS and "bad girl" parts always get more attention than good girls like she played in the other two films you mentioned. Anita Page was actually quite a good little actress in addition to being a great beauty. I recommend you watch the excellent melodrama NIGHT COURT when it airs again on TCM. She is excellent in that one.
shareI fully agree: I first bought the DVD because of Joan, but ended up liking Anita better in this. I had only seen her previously in Broadway Melody, and I too ignored she could be that good when playing a bad girl! She gave a great performance, and loved especially her first scene -when we're introduced to the kind of relationship she had with her "loving" mother- and the last one -"Women working??? Don't you have pretty daughters??? Well, doll'em up!- which was very revealing, as well.
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"Women working??? Don't you have pretty daughters??? Well, doll'em up!- which was very revealing, as well.Yes but we got that message from the very first time we 'meet' her. She's excited about Freddie but immediately acknowledges to her non-approving mother that she'd never marry him because he doesn't have money. She then says she'll wait until she's married so she can 'fling'. She didn't mean with her husband.
Grear comment! Thank you so much for sharing!
It was a fabulous performance by Ms. Page, and right now I feel like re-watching the movie, which -most likely- I'll do tonight!
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Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop