Ann Dvorak
Ann Dvorak was born in New York City, New York, United States on August 2nd, 1911 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 68, Ann Dvorak biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Ann Dvorak (born Anna McKim; August 2, 1911 – December 10, 1979) was an American stage and film actress. When asked how to pronounce her adopted surname, she told The Literary Digest in 1936: "My fake name is properly pronounced vor'shack."
The D remains unnoticed.
Having been called almost every part of Balzac to Bickelsrock, I've had a rough time with the name.
Early years
Anna Lehr, a silent film actress, was the niece of Dvorak. She attended St. Catherine's Convent while in New York. She attended Page School for Girls in Hollywood after moving to California.
In Ramona (1916), she appeared as "Baby Anna Lehr" on her first film appearance. She remained in children's films as well as in The Man Hater (1917) and Five Dollar Plate (1920), but then she stopped acting in films. She parents separated in 1916 and divorced in 1920; she didn't see her father again until 13 years later when she made a public plea to the media to help her locate him.
Career
In the late 1920s, Dvorak worked as a dance instructor and gradually began to appear on film as a chorus girl. Her friend, actress Karen Morley, introduced her to billionaire movie producer Howard Hughes, who groomed her as a dramatic actress. She was a success in such pre-Code films as Scarface (1932) as Paul Muni's sister; in Three on a Match (1932) with Bette Davis and Joan Blondell as the doomed, unstable Vivian; in The Crowd Roars (1932) with James Cagney; and in Sky Devils (1932) opposite Spencer Tracy. Known for her style and elegance, she was a popular leading lady for Warner Bros. during the 1930s, and appeared in numerous contemporary romances and melodramas.
At age 19, Dvorak eloped with Leslie Fenton, her English co-star from The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932), and they married on March 17, 1932. They left for a year-long honeymoon in spite of her contractual obligations to the studio, which led to a period of litigation and pay disputes during which she discovered she was making the same amount of money as the boy who played her son in Three on a Match. She completed her contract on permanent suspension, then worked as a freelancer. Although she worked regularly, the quality of her scripts declined sharply.
She appeared as secretary Della Street to Donald Woods' Perry Mason in The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937). With her then-husband, Leslie Fenton, Dvorak traveled to England where she supported the war effort by working as an ambulance driver and acted in several British films. She appeared as a saloon singer in Abilene Town with Randolph Scott and Edgar Buchanan, released in 1946. The following year she adeptly handled comedy by giving an assured performance in Out of the Blue (1947). In 1948, Dvorak gave her only performance on Broadway in The Respectful Prostitute.