Cast
Anita Garvin
Acting
Cast
Anita Garvin
Known for
Acting
Born
1906-02-11
From
New York City, New York, USA
Died
1994-07-07
Also known as Nita Garvin , Anna Frances "Anita" Garvin, Anna Frances Garvin
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anita Garvin (February 11, 1907 – July 7, 1994) was an American actress and comedian who appeared in both silent and sound films. She is best known for her work with comedians Laurel and Hardy and Charley Chase. Garvin was born in New York City.] Her two sisters who danced in vaudeville encouraged her talents. At age 12, she lied to an agent saying she was "almost sixteen" and got a job being a bathing beauty for one of Mack Sennett's stage shows. The following year she joined the Ziegfeld Follies. She took pride in being the only woman allowed to touch Will Rogers's ropes. She also appeared in Earl Carroll Vanities. Garvin went on tour with the musical Sally staying with the show for two seasons, then decided to stay in California when the tour left that stop in 1924. In Hollywood, Garvin began working for Christie Film Company's comedies. She recalled her co-star Bobby Vernon dropping butter on the floor onto which she stepped and tumbled, cementing her career as a comedian. Charles Lamont brought her over to work for Educational Pictures. In 1926, Hal Roach took her under contract, where she appeared in many silent films with Charley Chase, James Finlayson, and Max Davidson as well as playing occasional supporting roles in feature films. Standing around 6 feet tall, "her regal countenance and deadpan expression" made her the perfect comic foil. Roach later considered her "one of his finest actresses." Reflecting upon her frequent co-star Stan Laurel, Garvin observed: "One thing about Stan--with apologies to a lot of directors--they thought they were directing him. And they thought they were directing the picture. But Stan was the one...He was very clever about it. The director was never cognizant of the fact that he was not doing all the directing. Stan's mind was going all the time, always thinking of gags and things to do. The script didn't mean a thing." Garvin appeared in a total of eleven Laurel and Hardy films. In 1928, she was teamed with Marion Byron as a short-lived female version of Laurel and Hardy. Along with Edgar Kennedy, Byron and Garvin appeared in A Pair of Tights, an "acknowledged masterpiece."
Topper
Blotto
as Mrs. Laurel
Be Big!
as Mrs. Laurel (uncredited)
Dynamite
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Show Business
as Anita Garvin
Yoo-Hoo
as Anita
A Chump at Oxford
as Mrs. Vandevere (uncredited)
The Skulls
as Señora Laurel
The Battle of the Century
as Slips on pie (uncredited)
Swiss Miss
as Tradesman's wife
The Single Standard
as Packy's Jealous Girlfriend at Art Exhibition (uncredited)
With Love and Hisses
as Captain Bustle's 1st girlfriend
Their Purple Moment
as Oliver's Girlfriend
Movie Night
Our Modern Maidens
as Bridesmaid (uncredited)
On With the Show!
as Chorine (uncredited)
Move Along
as Rich girl with roses
Upstream
as Theatre Audience Admirer at Stage Door
Murder at Midnight
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Baby Brother
as Amorous nursemaid
Whispering Whoopee
as Miss Garvin
Modern Love
as Mrs. Weston - the Brunette
Forgotten Sweeties
Hats Off
as Customer at top of stairs
Why Girls Love Sailors
as Captain's Wife
The Hollywood Handicap
Feed 'em and Weep
Sally
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Two-Time Mama
as Mrs. Dazzle
The Charlatan
as Mrs. Paynter
Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl
as Flo Mason
Sailors, Beware!
as Madame Ritz
From Soup to Nuts
as Mrs. Culpepper
Red Hot Rhythm
as Mable
A Pair of Tights
as Anita
Sunk by the Census
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Going Ga-Ga
as Anita
The Play Girl
as Millie
Raggedy Rose
as Janice
The Chiselers
as Mme. Laurel
Home Boner
Imagine My Embarrassment
Trent's Last Case
as Ottilie Dunois
Asleep in the Feet
as Dance Hall Hostess
Merry Wives of Reno
as Male-Seeking Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
The Sleuth
as The other woman
Bright Lights
Fair But Foolish
His Silent Racket
as Mrs. Finlayson
The Millionaire Cat
as Natalie
In the Grease
as Physical Culture teacher
Stepping Out
as The Date
Assistant Wives
as Gwendolyn - the Flapjack Queen
Creeps
The Last Man on Earth
as A Millionairess (uncredited)
While the Cat's Away
as Emma
Bested by a Beard
as Mrs. Vivian Errol
Fighting Fathers
as Mrs. Sniffleblaster
Off to Buffalo
as Mrs. Brown
Book Bozo
Truth Aches
as Mrs. Errol
He Asked for It
A Taxi War
Many Scrappy Returns
as Wellington's Wife
My Swedie
as Ethel Lorraine
Roaming Romeo
as The Princess
Fandango
For Sadie's Sake
Sleepless Hollow
as Harry's Wife
The Motor Boat Demon
as Colleen
Never the Dames Shall Meet
as Edna's Sister
A Dangerous Peach
as Mrs. Wilson