Christine Lahti

. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in recognition of her contribution to Motion Pictures at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard. She mainly has acted in independent films or TV series in the past decade, and she is active in political causes. Anita Louise died from a stroke in Los Angeles, California and was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Lahti is married to TV director Thomas Schlamme. Her husband of twenty years, the film producer Buddy Adler died in 1960. After that event, she made it a point to be good-humored about it, usually poking fun at herself at other awards shows. She virtually retired after this.

When she won her Golden Globe in 1998, she was in the bathroom, which was highly-publicized in the press. In middle age she played one of her most widely seen roles as the mother in the television series My Friend Flicka from 1956 until 1958. She has won one Emmy and two Golden Globes for her role in Chicago Hope. By the 1940s she was reduced to minor roles and appeared very infrequently before the advent of television in the 1950s provided her with further opportunities. Lahti received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for Swing Shift in 1984, and won an Academy Award for Best Short Film, Live Action for Lieberman in Love (1995), which she starred in and directed. Among her film successes were Madame Du Barry (1934), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935), Anthony Adverse (1936), Marie Antoinette (1936), The Sisters (1938), and The Little Princess (1939). After starring in a few blockbuster hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, Lahti has primarily chosen to be in movies she wants to act in - rather than take blockbuster roles, and she is adamant about spending time with her three children. Her reputation was further enhanced by her role as Hollywood society hostess, with her parties attended by the elite of Hollywood, and widely and regularly reported in the news media.

She started off working in commercials, and her breakthrough movie was ...And Justice for All (1979) with Al Pacino. As her stature in Hollywood grew, she was named as a WAMPAS Baby Star, and was frequently described as one of cinema's most fashionable and stylish women. She moved to New York City in the 1970s to work as a waitress. By her late teens she was being cast in leading and supporting roles in major productions, and was highly regarded for her delicate features and blonde hair. Christine Lahti (born April 4, 1950) is an American actress. Born Anita Louise Fremault in New York, New York, she made her acting debut on Broadway at the age of six, and within a year was appearing regularly in Hollywood films. IMDb Entry (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001441/). Anita Louise (January 9, 1915 – April 25, 1970) was an American film actress.

Chicago Hope (1994) (TV Series). Crazy From the Heart (1991). The Doctor (1991). Miss Firecracker (1989).

Running on Empty (1988). Swing Shift (1984). Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981). ...And Justice for All (1979).