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Title: Anita Bolster (Bathia Mapes) mention
Post by: Brian on November 12, 2008, 04:00:59 AM
The recent WB DVD release of MGM's "THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY" includes a wonderful commentary track with Angela Lansbury, and Anita Bolster's character actress work in the film is noted by Ms. Lansbury at about the 1:22ish minute mark.  Just thought I'd let y'all know. 

Brian
Title: Re: Anita Bolster (Bathia Mapes) mention
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on November 12, 2008, 04:20:02 AM
Hmmm - I'm obviously going to have to rewatch the movie because I watched it Halloween night and I didn't even recognize her. And I wondered how in the world I missed her name in the credits - but I see that according to the IMDb she was uncredited as Lady Harborough.
Title: Re: Anita Bolster (Bathia Mapes) mention
Post by: Gothick on November 12, 2008, 04:33:45 PM
Anita Bolster had a great little role as a sinister housekeeper in a 1940s film I saw last year.  I believe Agnes Moorehead was in it too. 

She had a surprisingly active career--she keeps popping up in various things from the 1940s through the 1960s.

G.
Title: Re: Anita Bolster (Bathia Mapes) mention
Post by: MsCriseyde on November 12, 2008, 08:43:59 PM
She is absolutely amazing in a brief role as Esmerelda, the bearded lady in the circus train, in Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur.
Title: Re: Anita Bolster (Bathia Mapes) mention
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on November 12, 2008, 10:24:17 PM
And as I mentioned once before, she's absolutely hysterical and steals every scene she's a part of in the 1944 film The Thin Man Goes Home.