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Anita Garvin

Anita Garvin

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.

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Movies Starring Anita Garvin (16)

Sunk by the Census (1940)

Edgar is a census taker, but is primarily interested in finding a rich widow for his father-in-law (Billy Franey), so he won't have to continue to support him. All Pop wants to make him happy is a cow. When Edgar comes home with both a cow and a phony rich ...

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Bested by a Beard (1940)

Leon Errol disguises himself as a mystic, in order to fool repo men. ...

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A Chump at Oxford (1940)

The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-e ...

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Swiss Miss (1938)

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. ...

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Topper (1937)

Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his ...

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Sleepless Hollow (1936)

Newlywed Harry Gribbon brings his wife home to meet his country family which includes their perspective choice for a daughter-in-law. ...

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While the Cat's Away (1936)

Henry and Johnnie need to clean the apartment before the wives get home. ...

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Merry Wives of Reno (1934)

Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces. ...

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His Silent Racket (1933)

James Finlayson manages to con Charley into becoming his partner in a failing dry cleaning shop that has been targeted by gangsters running a protection racket. ...

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Asleep in the Feet (1933)

The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money. ...

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Yoo-Hoo (1932)

James Gleason picks up abused kid and tries to clean him up. ...

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Show Business (1932)

The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe. ...

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Murder at Midnight (1931)

Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologist Phillip Montrose is on hand to help the police. When Kennedy quickly ends up dead as well, the police th ...

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The Skulls (1931)

This Spanish language film was produced simultaneously with the filming of the two English language Laurel and Hardy shorts Be Big! and Laughing Gravy. The two shorts were edited together into one continuous film. Laurel and Hardy read their lines from cue ...

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Be Big! (1931)

Stan and Ollie are on their way to Atlantic City with their wives, when Ollie gets a phone call from a lodge buddy telling him that a stag party is taking place that night in their honor. Ollie pretends to be sick and sends the wives on ahead, promising th ...

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The Chiselers (1931)

Having been kicked out by their wives on a wintry night they attempt to smuggle their little dog into an apartment house where dogs are not allowed. ...

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