Personal Info
Birth date
1915-01-09 (110 Years)
Day of death
1970-04-25
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also known as
Anita Fremault
Anita Louise Fremault
Anita Louise
Biography
Anita Louise (born January 9, 1915) was an American actress. She made her acting debut on Broadway at the age of six, and within a year was appearing regularly in Hollywood films. By her late teens she was being cast in leading and supporting roles in major productions. As her stature in Hollywood grew, she was named as a WAMPAS Baby Star. Among her film successes were Madame Du Barry, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Story of Louis Pasteur, Anthony Adverse, Marie Antoinette, The Sisters, and The Little Princess. By the 1940s, Louise was reduced to minor roles and acted very infrequently until the advent of television in the 1950s provided her with further opportunities. In middle age she played one of her most widely seen roles as the gentle mother on My Friend Flicka.
Filmography
Matinee Theater
5
Overview:
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.
Mannix
6.686
Overview:
Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.
The Mod Squad
6.208
Overview:
The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. It starred Michael Cole as Pete Cochren, Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes, Clarence Williams III as Linc Hayes, and Tige Andrews as Captain Adam Greer. The executive producers of the series were Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas. The iconic counter-culture police series earned six Emmy nominations, four Golden Globe nominations plus one win for Peggy Lipton, one Directors Guild of America award, and four Logies. In 1997 the episode "Mother of Sorrow" was ranked #95 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
The Millionaire
5
Overview:
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
Lux Video Theatre
6.333
Overview:
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
This Is Your Life
6.417
Overview:
This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience, including special guest appearances by colleagues, friends and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971-72, while Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The show originated as a radio show on NBC Radio airing from 1948 to 1952.
Letter to Loretta
6.5
Overview:
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.
My Friend Flicka
5.7
Overview:
My Friend Flicka is a 39-episode western television series set at the fictitious Goose Bar Ranch in Wyoming at the turn of the 20th century. The program was filmed in color but initially aired in black and white on CBS at 7:30 p.m. Fridays from February 10, 1956, to February 1, 1957. It was a mid-season replacement for Gene Autry's The Adventures of Champion. Both series, however failed in the ratings against ABC's The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. After the initial Friday airing, viewers could still find the series on CBS Saturdays at 7 p.m. Eastern during March 1957, on Sundays at 6 p.m. from April to May 1957, and on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. from June to August 1957. NBC carried the program in color at 6:30 p.m. Sunday from September to December 1957 and at 7 p.m. Sunday from January to May 1958. In subsequent years, the series aired mostly on Saturday mornings on all networks. The Disney Channel ran it on Monday evenings in the mid-1980s. Over the years many viewers were unaware that the series produced episodes for only a single season. My Friend Flicka starred native Canadian Johnny Washbrook as Ken McLaughlin, a boy devoted to his horse Flicka, Swedish for "little girl", but actually an Arabian sorrel named Wahana. Gene Evans played the authoritarian father Rob McLaughlin, a former U.S. Army cavalry officer. Anita Louise was cast as the gentle-spirited mother, Nell. Frank Ferguson portrayed Gus Broeberg, the loyal ranch hand. Flicka is based on a novel by Mary O'Hara, written at the Remount Ranch, located between Laramie and Cheyenne, Wyoming. Some Internet sites say that the series is set in Montana, where some of the filming was done. The majority of the filming, however, was at Fox Movie Ranch. My Friend Flicka holds the distinction of having been the first television series filmed by 20th Century Fox. A 1943 film, My Friend Flicka, starred Roddy McDowall as Ken.
The Little Princess
6.659
Overview:
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
Millie
5.222
Overview:
After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men - men who once devoted their time to her mother.
Tovarich
6.2
Overview:
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.
The Gorilla
4.6
Overview:
When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards. In short order, we discover that there is more to the attorney than meets the eye, and the ape may be innocent after all. When a pretty young heiress faces peril, it's up to our heroic trio to save the day.
A Woman of Affairs
6.7
Overview:
Childhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and Neville have long been smitten with each other, but her father disapproves of the relationship, resulting in her eventual marriage to David. It's not long after their wedding, however, that tragedy strikes, sending Diana on a downward spiral. When Neville reappears in her life, will he be able to save her from her own misery?
Marie Antoinette
6.6
Overview:
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
4.9
Overview:
Robin Hood's swashbuckling son comes to the rescue when England's boy-king is captured by the evil, power-hungry William of Pembroke.
The Firebird
5.5
Overview:
Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old daughter Mariette. One day, as Carola leaves the building, Brandt catches her in the stairwell and proposes she "visit" him at his apartment after everyone has gone to bed. Shocked and offended at his brazenness, she complains to the building manager, who orders Brandt to leave. He refuses, so the Pointers decide that they will move out instead. While they're packing, the police show up at their apartment with some bad news--Brandt has been found murdered, shot in the head. Inspector Muller, the detective investigating the murder, discovers that there is more to this case than meets the eye.
Judge Priest
6.382
Overview:
Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense of humanity.
Anthony Adverse
5.8
Overview:
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
6.4
Overview:
Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
Brides Are Like That
4.8
Overview:
Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not working. Bill is a dreamer, a talker and a golf player and he has a lot of ideas, but still lives off Fred. When Hazel gets engaged to Doc Jenkins, it takes a while, but Bill talks her into marrying him instead. The only problem is that now, he needs to find a job.
Our Betters
5.4
Overview:
Soon after being wed, American heiress Lady Pearl Grayston realizes her husband has married her for her money and is keeping a mistress. The two maintain a loveless marriage, a trade-off Pearl accepts in order to gain admittance to her husband's aristocratic social circle. While Pearl pursues her own affair with gigolo Pepi D'Costa, her visiting sister, Bessie, arrives and is appalled when Pearl's arrangement is revealed.
The Villain Still Pursued Her
5.182
Overview:
Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.
The Story of Louis Pasteur
6.8
Overview:
A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be cured by vaccinations.
Dangerous Blondes
6
Overview:
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.
These Glamour Girls
5.5
Overview:
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.
Shadowed
6
Overview:
Fred J. Johnson scores a hole-in-one but his next drive, using the lucky, initialed golf ball, soars out of bounds and lands near a spot where some counterfeiters are burying a murder victim. Then begins a series of events in which he is hounded and threatened by the killers. The consequences of his not reporting what he saw to the police lead to a climax in which is daughter is held hostage by the crooks.
Here's to Romance
NYR
Overview:
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
Square Shoulders
NYR
Overview:
Tad's dream is to attend a military academy so he can grow up to be a great soldier and a war hero, like his father. What he doesn't know is that his father, Slag, is actually a thief and a derelict. Slag robs a factory in order to get the money to send Tad to military school, then gets a job at the academy's horse stables to be close to his son, who doesn't know he's alive.
Just Like Heaven
5.7
Overview:
Tobey is a headstrong peddler who sells balloons on the streets of Paris. A traveling dog circus usurps his corner and a power struggle ensues between Tobey and the circus's beautiful ballet star, Mimi. Intent on ruining the circus's chances at success, Tobey sabotages their performances. But after a tragedy befalls Mimi, Tobey has a dramatic change of heart and views Mimi in a completely new way.Acting
1988The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind as Self (archive footage)
1968The Mod Squad (1 Episode) as Unknown
1967Mannix (1 Episode) as Unknown
1957The Greer Case as Mabel Seymour Greer
1956The Steve Allen Show (1 Episode) as Self - Appearing
1955Matinee Theater (1 Episode) as Unknown
1955My Friend Flicka (39 Episodes) as Unknown
1955The Millionaire (1 Episode) as Nancy Wellington
1953Letter to Loretta (1, 1 Episode) as Self - Hostess, Laura Killian
1952This Is Your Life (1 Episode) as Self
1952Retreat, Hell! as Ruth Hansen
1950Lux Video Theatre (1 Episode) as Beatrice Page
1947Bulldog Drummond at Bay as Doris Hamilton / Doris Meredith
1947Blondie's Big Moment as Miss Gray
1946Shadowed as Carol Johnson
1946Personality Kid as Laura Howard
1946The Devil's Mask as Janet Mitchell
1946The Bandit of Sherwood Forest as Lady Catherine Maitland
1945Love Letters as Helen Wentworth
1945The Fighting Guardsman as Amelie de Montrevel
1944Casanova Brown as Madge Ferris
1944Nine Girls as Paula Canfield
1943Dangerous Blondes as Julie Taylor
1942Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 as Herself
1941Harmon of Michigan as Peggy Adams
1941Two in a Taxi as Bonnie
1940The Phantom Submarine as Madeleine Neilson
1940The Villain Still Pursued Her as Mary Wilson
1940Glamour for Sale as Ann Powell
1940Wagons Westward as Phyllis O'Conover
1939Reno as Mrs. Joanne Ryder
1939Main Street Lawyer as Honey Boggs
1939Hero for a Day as Sylvia Higgins
1939These Glamour Girls as Daphne Graves
1939The Gorilla as Norma Denby
1939The Little Princess as Rose
1938Going Places as Ellen Parker
1938Breakdowns of 1938 as Emmy Page (archive footage) (uncredited)
1938The Sisters as Helen Elliott Johnson
1938Marie Antoinette as Princesse de Lamballe
1938My Bill as Muriel Colbrook
1937Tovarich as Helene Dupont
1937First Lady as Emmy Page
1937That Certain Woman as Florence 'Flip' Carson Merrick
1937The Go-Getter as Margaret Ricks
1937Call It a Day as Joan Collett
1937Green Light as Phyllis Dexter
1936Breakdowns of 1936 as Self
1936Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) as Self
1936Anthony Adverse as Maria
1936Brides Are Like That as Hazel Robinson
1936The Making of a Great Motion Picture as Unknown
1936The Story of Louis Pasteur as Annette Pasteur
1935A Dream Comes True as Herself (uncredited)
1935Personal Maid's Secret as Diana Abercrombie
1935A Midsummer Night's Dream as Titania
1935Here's to Romance as Lydia Lubov
1935Lady Tubbs as Wynne Howard
1934The Firebird as Mariette Pointer
1934Madame du Barry as Marie Antoinette
1934Judge Priest as Ellie May Gillespie
1934I Give My Love as Lorna March
1934Cross Streets as June Grattan
1934Most Precious Thing in Life as Patty O'Day
1934Are We Civilized? as Norma Bockner
1933Our Betters as Bessie
1932The Phantom of Crestwood as Esther Wren
1931Heaven on Earth as Towhead
1931The Woman Between as Helen Weston
1931Everything’s Rosie as Rosie Droop
1931Millie as Constance Maitland
1931The Great Meadow as Betty Hall
1930The Third Alarm as Milly Morton
1930Just Like Heaven as Mimi
1930What a Man as Marion Kilbourne
1930The Florodora Girl as Younger Vibart Daughter
1929The Marriage Playground as Blanca Wheater
1929Wonder of Women as Lottie, as a child
1929Square Shoulders as Mary Jane
1929The Spirit of Youth as Toodles Ewing
1928A Woman of Affairs as Young Diana (uncredited)
19284 Devils as Louise as a girl
1926The Untamed Lady as Unknown
1925The Street of Forgotten Men as Flower Girl (uncredited)
1924The Sixth Commandment as Unknown