Reynolds, Anita Thompson Dickinson, 1901-1980
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Name (Latin)
Reynolds, Anita Thompson Dickinson, 1901-1980
Other forms of name
Dubois, Anita, 1901-1980
Matelle, Anita, 1901-1980
Thompson, Anita, 1901-1980
Date of birth
1901-03-28
Date of death
1980-12
Field of activity
Dance
Acting
Education
Fashion merchandising
Nursing
Psychology
Occupation
Dancers
Models (Persons)
Nurses
Psychologists
Actors
Art teachers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Baltimore Afro-American, August 3, 1940 viewed July 19, 2022 via ProQuest Historical Newspapersp. 1 (Friends Fear for Anita Thompson; enlisted as a volunteer nurse in 1939; returned to the front when Nazis invaded Belgium, Holland & Luxembourg; prior to volunteering, worked as a fashion model under the name, Anita Matelle)
- Internet movie database, July 19, 2022(Anita Thompson; born, March 28, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois; actress, known for A Man's Duty (1919) and By Right of Birth (1921); died in December, 1980 in Christiansted, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands; birth name, Anita Beatrice Thompson; also known as Anita Dubois; married to Charles Henri Ford from 1931-1940; married to Dwight Lloyd Dickinson from 1941-1951; married to Guy Reynolds from 1961 to her death in 1980)
- Pittsburgh Courier, November 26, 1927 viewed July 19, 2022 via ProQuest Historical Newspapersp. 3 (Anita Thompson; Art Supervisor in the Baltimore Public School System; born in Chicago; reared in California; moved to New York and performed in Broadway show, "Runnin' Wild"; starred in film, "By right of birth")
- Wikipedia, 09-03-2013:(Anita Thompson Dickinson Reynolds; born in Chicago March 28 1901; raised in Los Angeles, California; died in St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands, 1980; she was an African American model and writer, trained as a dancer and performed with Rudolph Valentino; an actress in African American cinema; worked as a nurse in France between the world wars and in Morocco after the Nazi occupation; upon her return to the United States she studied to be a psychologist; was also a teacher and art instructor)
- [By right of birth--clips], 1921(Anita Thompson; actress; depicted; name not given)
- NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University for Her Papers, 1850-1950(Reynolds, Anita Thompson Dickinson (1901-1980); Afro-American psychologist, teacher, art instructor, actress, dancer, and model; spent later life in Virgin Islands)
- American cocktail, 2014:ECIP t.p. (Anita Reynolds) data view (actress; political activist; psychologist; attended Columbia Teachers College while dancing as a chorus girl on Broadway; wrote a review of The Great Gatsby for the black socialist magazine, The Messenger; and made as much of a splash with the uptown society of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s as with the downtown bohemia of Greenwich Village (where she knew Edna St. Vincent Millay and Eugene O'Neill, among others); moved to Paris in 1928 and became friends with artistic expatriates on the Left Bank, as well as with European avant-garde artists and writers including Antonin Artaud, Robert Desnos, Picasso, and Antoine de St. Exupéry; in Tangier in the early 1930s, she was at the center of the expatriate scene in Morocco; her archives (diaries, letters, photographs, etc.) reside in the Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center)