Maria — Anthony Adverse Character Profile

About Maria

Mother of Anthony. A young Scottish woman married to the Marquis Don Luis, she secretly loves Denis Moore and dies in childbirth in the Italian Alps after the Marquis kills her lover.

Character Facts

Played by

Anita Louise

Appears in

Anthony Adverse (1936)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (3)

• Maria — Family Spouses — Marquis Don Luis (Claude Rains)

  Married couple whose union is strained by infidelity and violence.

• Maria — Romantic Lovers — Denis Moore (Louis Hayward)

  Secret romantic partners planning to flee together.

• Maria — Family Father — John Bonnyfeather (Edmund Gwenn)

  Protective father unaware of his daughter's secret child.

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• Neleta (Steffi Duna)
• Denis Moore (Louis Hayward)
• Young Anthony Adverse (Billy Mauch)
• Faith Paleologus (Gale Sondergaard)
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• Capt. Elisha Jorham (Joseph Crehan)
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