- In an interview in 2004, she revealed that her early retirement had been due to her refusal to give in to Irving Thalberg's (He was married to Norma Shearer at the time.) and Louis B. Mayer's sexual advances.
- In 1929, she received over 10,000 fan letters a week, second only to Greta Garbo. Over 100 of these were from an ardent Italian admirer, who wrote obsessively about her every move and asked for her hand in marriage several times--Benito Mussolini.
- Was the last living attendee of the very first Academy Awards (1929).
- Marion Davies was one of her best friends. She stayed with her for five months after her first marriage broke up.
- Received a standing ovation before a full house while attending a screening of 1929 Best Picture Oscar winner The Broadway Melody (1929) on May 13, 2002, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 75th anniversary.
- Eloped with her first husband to Tijuana. They never lived together. (Page said they needed to be married in the Catholic Church before she would live with him and this never happened.) After nine months of marriage, she found out he was still married to his previous wife when he married Page, so she had their marriage annulled.
- Retired for 60 years before coming back to films at age 85.
- Was sought by Lon Chaney for his co-star in While the City Sleeps (1928) , after seeing her in Our Dancing Daughters (1928) and being impressed with the way she acted with her eyes.
- Fell in love with Coronado, California, and lived there for more than 40 years with her husband. She first was attracted to the city in 1929 when she was filming The Flying Fleet (1929) at the Hotel del Coronado. She subsequently moved to the Los Angeles area.
- She played Clark Gable's first on-screen love interest in The Easiest Way (1931).
- Her late daughter Sandra was an artist for Walt Disney. Her daughter Linda is an artist in her own right who lives in San Diego. She made the trek from San Diego to L.A. every week to visit her mother during Anita's last years.
- She was of Irish and Salvadoran extraction. Her father was Marino Pomares, an electrical engineer, whose father was a consul from El Salvador. Her mother was Helen "Maude" Mullane.
- Her escort to her 21st birthday party at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel was Robert Young.
- She had two daughters, Linda and Sandra House. Sandra predeceased her.
- Her father had an electrical contracting business in Murray Hill, Flushing, New York City. He helped Anita get into pictures because he had done some lighting work for a studio in Astoria and knew somebody who promised to do what he could for Anita. The first screen name she used briefly was Anita Rivers.
- Still wore the dresses she wore in the 1920s.
- William Haines proposed to her while they were working together on Are You Listening? (1932). Haines, a homosexual, was under pressure from studio chief Louis B. Mayer to marry and Page, who considered him to be more of an older brother figure, gave his proposition serious consideration before declining. They remained friends.
- Vivid, petite blonde silent screen star best known for her lively flappers and ambitious starlets.
- She was the most popular actress of 1930.
- Ramon Novarro was her favorite co-star because he was so nice to her.
- She enjoyed watching her old movies.
- Received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award (1997).
- After graduating from Washington Irving High School in New York, she began her show business career as an extra at Paramount's Astoria studios.
- She was paired up with Joan Crawford in three popular films: Our Dancing Daughters (1928), Our Modern Maidens (1929) and Our Blushing Brides (1930). She also appeared opposite Buster Keaton in two of his lesser-known talkies: Free and Easy (1930) and Sidewalks of New York (1931).
- After 60 years of retirement, she returned to acting in such films as Witchcraft XI: Sisters in Blood (2000) and The Crawling Brain (2002).
- Her mother, Helen "Maude", was her secretary. Her father, John, was her chauffeur. Her brother, Marino, was her gym instructor.
- She was friends with and worked for producer/director Thomas R. Bond II in Bob's Night Out (2004), one of the last films in which she appeared. Bond said that directing her was, and always will be, the highlight of his directing career.
- Outré film actor Randal Malone brought her out of a 60-year retirement while becoming her good friend and caretaker in her final years.
- Upon her death, her remains were interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in San Diego, California.
- WAMPAS Baby Star of 1929.
- She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6116 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
- She was a lifelong Democrat.
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