Biography: Anita Louise |
Blonde, blue-eyed, Dresden Doll-featured Anita Louise was an actress from age 6, appearing with Walter Hampden in the Broadway production of Peter Ibbetson. She played juvenile roles in silent pictures, billed as Anita Fremault; in 1929, she dropped... more
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Tags: Combat Films War
Length: 95min
Retreat, Hell! is out of favor with most disciples of director Joseph H. Lewis, partly because it was a major-studio release, whereas Lewis' cult classics were made on shoestring budgets for independent producers. Despite this "handicap," Retreat,...
Tags: Detective Film Crime Thriller Mystery Crime
Length: 66min
This entry in the short "I Love a Mystery" series has detective Jack Packard and his sidekick Doc Young investigating the identity of a shrunken head that was discovered in a downed cargo plane. The head was one of four others discovered in the...
Cast: Gladys Cooper Joseph Cotten Jennifer Jones Cecil Kellaway
Tags: Romance Drama Melodrama Romantic Drama
Length: 101min
Ayn Rand wrote this adaptation of Chris Massie's book ~Pity Mr. Simplicity, about a soldier who falls in love with a former comrade's wife -- an amnesiac who may have murdered her husband. The story begins in Italy when two soldiers, Allen Quinton...
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946)
Cast: Cornel Wilde Edgar Buchanan
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure
Length: 85min
The Technicolor swashbuckler Bandit of Sherwood Forest stars Cornel Wilde as Robert of Nottingham, son of the legendary Robin Hood (Russell Hicks). Robert elects to follow in his father's footsteps when oppression rears its ugly head in the form of a...
Length: 62min
In this heartwarming children's movie, an adorable child finds a darling donkey and decides to make it his pet, but in order to keep it, he must first housebreak the beast. Even so, the family is not pleased with his pet. Meanwhile, his brother, a...
Cast: Gary Cooper Teresa Wright Frank Morgan
Length: 94min
When he finds out his ex-wife has just had his child and plans to give her up for adoption, a timid English instructor dashes to the child's rescue and attempts to care for her in a hotel room. Before too long, however, his new fiancee and his ex...
Cast: Lionel Banks
Tags: Police Detective Film Mystery
Length: 78min
Nine Girls stars several of Columbia's loveliest contract actresses as sorority sisters at an exclusive California college. None of the girls is fond of nasty student Anita Louise--in fact, sometime dislikes her enough to kill her. Police detectives...
Cast: Janis Carter Anita Louise
Tags: Historical Film Adventure Romantic Adventure
Length: 84min
Columbia Pictures' entree into the swashbuckling genre was the opulent 18th century costumer The Fighting Guardsman. Willard Parker stars as Baron Francois de Sainte Hermaine, who is in reality the Robin Hoodlike righter-of-wrongs Roland. Robbing the...
Cast: Dwight Frye Edmund Lowe Evelyn Keyes John Hubbard
Tags: Detective Film Police Detective Film Crime Mystery Comedy Crime Thriller
Length: 80min
Stalwart supporting actor Allyn Joslyn is afforded a rare leading role in the Columbia mystery meller Dangerous Blondes. Joslyn and Evelyn Keyes play Harry and Jane Craig, a road-company Nick and Nora Charles. A popular mystery writer, Harry...
The Villain Still Pursued Her (1941)
Cast: Buster Keaton
Tags: Parody/Spoof Satire Comedy
Length: 66min
Like Prohibition, Franklin-Blank Productions' The Villain Still Pursued Her is best regarded as a "noble experiment". Using the hoary old stage melodrama The Drunkard: or, the Fallen Saved as its inspiration, the film is a contemptous send-up of all...
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