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Anita Garvin is a Actor American born on 11 february 1906 at New York City (USA)
Anita Garvin (1907–1994) est une actrice américaine connue pour ses apparitions dans les films de Laurel et Hardy et auprès de Charley Chase.
Elle débute au cinéma en 1924 à l'âge de 17 ans et très vite rencontre Stan Laurel aux côtés duquel elle tourne ainsi que dans les films que ce dernier réalise. Lorsque le duo Laurel et Hardy est constitué, elle leur donne la réplique à de nombreuses reprises. Elle y joue les femmes de la haute société ou les épouses acariâtres.
Parallèlement, elle tourne souvent avec Charley Chase ou James Finlayson. En 1928 elle est l'une des protagonistes d'un duo comique féminin avec Marion Byron que les Studios Hal Roach tentent d'imposer sur le modèle de Laurel et Hardy.
En 1930, elle épouse le chef d'orchestre Clifford « Red » Stanley et tourne de moins en moins pour se consacrer à sa vie de famille.
Anita Garvin décède en 1994 à l'âge de 87 ans.
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Anita Garvin
Nationality USA
Birth 11 february 1906 at New York City (USA)
Death 7 july 1994 (at 88 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 11 february 1906 at New York City (USA)
Death 7 july 1994 (at 88 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Biography
Anita Garvin naît sur la Côte Est des États-Unis et déménage enfant en Californie.Elle débute au cinéma en 1924 à l'âge de 17 ans et très vite rencontre Stan Laurel aux côtés duquel elle tourne ainsi que dans les films que ce dernier réalise. Lorsque le duo Laurel et Hardy est constitué, elle leur donne la réplique à de nombreuses reprises. Elle y joue les femmes de la haute société ou les épouses acariâtres.
Parallèlement, elle tourne souvent avec Charley Chase ou James Finlayson. En 1928 elle est l'une des protagonistes d'un duo comique féminin avec Marion Byron que les Studios Hal Roach tentent d'imposer sur le modèle de Laurel et Hardy.
En 1930, elle épouse le chef d'orchestre Clifford « Red » Stanley et tourne de moins en moins pour se consacrer à sa vie de famille.
Anita Garvin décède en 1994 à l'âge de 87 ans.
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A Chump at Oxford (1940)
, 1h3Directed by Alfred J. Goulding, Harve Foster
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilfred Lucas, James Finlayson, Anita Garvin, Forrester Harvey
Roles Mrs. Vandevere (uncredited)
Rating71%
Stan and Ollie are down to their last six bucks and call a lift to a job agency to find work. A City Water Dept. truck driver offers them a lift and drenches them with water as a joke and leaves them behind. They finally arrive in a badly damaged car that has been towed away. At the job agency a call comes from Mrs. Vandeveer looking for a maid and butler to help at a dinner party she is holding that night. Ollie tells the receptionist they can fill the post and to leave it to them. They arrive and Stan is dressed in drag, pretending to be the maid "Agnes".
Cookoo Cavaliers (1940)
Directed by Jules White
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dorothy Appleby, Anita Garvin, Lynton Brent
Rating74%
The Stooges are unsuccessful fish salesmen. After becoming fed up with it all, they decide to go into the saloon business. When Curly tells a Mexican real estate dealer (Lynton Brent) their saloon has "...gotta have class and gotta have beauty," they end up with a beauty "saloon." Undaunted, the trio try their hand at giving a customer (Dorothy Appleby) a mud pack using, natural, real mud. After chiseling the cement off her face, the boys scalp three other Mexican beauties before having their bottoms shot full of holes.
Swiss Miss (1938)
, 1h13Directed by Hal Roach, John G. Blystone, John Sherwood
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Mafia films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Buddy films, Gangster films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Walter Woolf King, Eric Blore, Anita Garvin, Charles Judels
Roles Tradesman's wife
Rating65%
Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland, there should be more mice.
Topper (1937)
, 1h37Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Ghost films
Actors Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Eugene Pallette, Hedda Hopper
Rating71%
George (Cary Grant) and Marion (Constance Bennett) Kerby are as rich as they are irresponsible. When George wrecks their classy sports car, they wake up from the accident as ghosts. Realizing they aren’t in heaven or hell because they’ve never been responsible enough to do good deeds or bad ones, they decide that freeing their old friend Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) from his regimented lifestyle will be their ticket into heaven.
The Skulls (1931)
, 1h1Directed by James W. Horne, James Gibbons Parrott
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean De Briac, Linda Loredo, Anita Garvin, Charlie Hall
Roles Señora Laurel
Rating62%
Les scénarios sont similaires à ceux de Drôles de bottes et Laughing Gravy, les deux courts-métrages sont accolés avec un simple intertitre précisant : « Después del divorcio, todo fue de mal en peor y vino el invierno. » et le long métrage est donc constitué de deux parties.
The Chiselers (1931)
, 1h3Directed by James W. Horne
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean De Briac, Anita Garvin, Charlie Hall, Jack Hill
Roles Mme. Laurel
Rating62%
Les scénarios sont similaires à ceux de Drôles de bottes et Laughing Gravy, les deux courts-métrages sont accolés avec un simple intertitre précisant : « Après le divorce, la fortune n’a pas souri aux deux amis et quand vint l’hiver… » et le long métrage est donc constitué de deux parties.
Be Big! (1931)
, 28minutesDirected by James W. Horne, James Gibbons Parrott
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Anita Garvin, Charlie Hall, Baldwin Cooke, Jack Hill
Roles Mrs. Laurel (uncredited)
Rating67%
Laurel and Hardy are almost on their way to Atlantic City with their wives, when Ollie gets a phone call from Cookie, a lodge buddy. Cookie tells Ollie that a stag party is taking place that night in their honor and reveals irresistible details of the event when Ollie says they won't be able to attend.
Laughing Gravy (1931)
Directed by James W. Horne, James Gibbons Parrott
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall, Anita Garvin, Harry Bernard, Charles Dorety
Roles Mrs. Laurel (uncredited)
Rating72%
On a snowy winter's night, Laurel and Hardy try to keep their pet dog 'Laughing Gravy' hidden from their landlord, mostly without success. The landlord eventually orders them to leave, but fate takes a hand.
Murder at Midnight (1931)
, 1h9Directed by Frank R. Strayer
Origin USA
Actors Aileen Pringle, Alice White, Robert Elliott, Hale Hamilton, Robert Elliot, Clara Blandick
Roles Party Guest (uncredited)
Rating54%
A murder during a game of charades at a society party leads the police to begin the hunt thru the guest-list for a motive and culprit, involving a changed will and booby-trapped telephones. The killer strikes several more times in an attempt to conceal their identity, until all is revealed.
Blotto (1930)
Directed by James Gibbons Parrott
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Baldwin Cooke, Anita Garvin, Tiny Sandford, Charlie Hall
Roles Mrs. Laurel
Rating73%
During the prohibition period, Laurel and Hardy make plans to spend a wild night out at the Rainbow Club. Phoning Stan at home, Ollie suggests a ruse by which Stan is to convince his wife, who keeps him on a short leash, that he has been called away on business. Stan readily agrees to the idea, assuring Ollie that his wife is "so dumb she'll never know the difference".
Sally (1930)
, 1h43Directed by John Francis Dillon
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Marilyn Miller, Alexander Gray, Joe E. Brown, Ford Sterling, Pert Kelton, T. Roy Barnes
Roles Party Guest (uncredited)
Rating61%
Sally (Marilyn Miller) plays the part of an orphan who had been abandoned as a baby at the Bowling Green telephone exchange. While growing up in an orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing. In an attempt to save money enough to become a dancer, Sally began working at odd jobs. While working as a waitress, a man named Blair (Alexander Gray) begins coming to her work regularly to see her. They both soon fall for each other.
Whispering Whoopee (1930)
, 20minutesDirected by James W. Horne
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charley Chase, Thelma Todd, Anita Garvin, Dell Henderson, Carl Stockdale, Tenen Holtz
Roles Miss Garvin
Rating60%
On With the Show! (1929)
, 1h43Directed by Alan Crosland
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Joe E. Brown, Betty Compson, Arthur Lake, Ethel Waters, Louise Fazenda, Sally O'Neil
Roles Chorine (uncredited)
Rating58%
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. The cast includes William Bakewell as the head usher eager to get his sweetheart, box-office girl Sally O'Neil, noticed as a leading girl. Betty Compson plays the temperamental star and Arthur Lake the whiny young male lead. Louise Fazenda is the company's eccentric comedienne. Joe E. Brown plays the part of a mean comedian who constantly argues with Arthur Lake.
Dynamite (1929)
, 2h9Directed by Mitchell Leisen, Cecil B. DeMille
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about capital punishment
Actors Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford, Julia Faye, Joel McCrea, Robert Edeson
Roles Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Rating68%
Coal miner Hagon Derk (Charles Bickford) is sentenced to hang for murder. His only concern is for his young sister Katie (Muriel McCormac), who will be left all alone. Frivolous socialite Cynthia Crothers (Kay Johnson) has her own troubles. By the terms of her grandfather's will, if she is not married by her twenty-third birthday (only a month away), she will not inherit his millions and will be left penniless. She is "engaged" to Roger Towne (Conrad Nagel), but he is married to Marcia (Julia Faye). Marcia has her own lover, Marco (Joel McCrea), and is willing to grant Roger a divorce ... for the right price. The two women haggle behind Roger's back and settle on $100,000.
Our Modern Maidens (1929)
, 1h16Directed by Jack Conway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Joan Crawford, Rod La Rocque, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Anita Page, Josephine Dunn, Edward J. Nugent
Roles Bridesmaid (uncredited)
Rating61%
Heiress Billie Brown (Crawford), is engaged to marry her longtime sweetheart, budding diplomat Gil Jordan (Fairbanks). When Billie goes to see senior diplomat Glenn Abbott (La Rocque) about ensuring that Gil get a favorable assignment, Billie and Glenn are undeniably attracted to one another. Gil is likewise attracted to Kentucky Strafford, (Page), Billie's houseguest, who becomes pregnant by Gil. Gil finds that he loves Kentucky, but marries Billie instead. Once Gil finds that Billie really loves Glenn and Billie finds that Gil loves Kentucky, their marriage is annulled and both are paired up with the people they truly love.