| Anita Pomares better known as Anita Page (born August 4, 1910) is an American film actress and one of the few living persons who was an adult (albeit young) actor in silent films (Barbara Kent, Dorothy Janis, and Miriam Seegar are among the handful of others). She is also the last person alive who was in attendance at the very first Academy Awards in 1929.
Billie Dove was born Bertha Bohny in New York City to Swiss immigrants. As a teen, she worked as a model to help support her family and was hired at the age of 15 by Florenz Ziegfeld to appear in his Ziegfeld Follies Revue. She migrated to Hollywood in 1922 and began appearing in films. Her great beauty and easily recognizable name helped her become one of the most popular actresses of the 1920s. She was soon dubbed The American Beauty which was also the title of one of her films.
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