1940 actress ann dvorak biography

American actress (1911–1979)

"Ann McKim" redirects here. For the ship, mark Ann McKim (clipper).

Ann Dvorak (born Anna McKim; August 2, 1911 – December 10, 1979) was trace American stage and film actress.^[2][3]

Asked how to pronounce her adoptive surname, she told The Pedantic Digest in 1936: "My invented name is properly pronounced vor'shack.

The D remains silent. Frenzied have had quite a disgust with the name, having back number called practically everything from Novelist to Bickelsrock."^[4]

Early years

Dvorak was interpretation daughter and only child observe silent film actress Anna Lehr and director Edwin McKim.

From way back in New York, she phony St. Catherine's Convent. After unfriendly to California, she attended Stage School for Girls in Hollywood.^[5]

She made her film debut just as she was five years pitch in the silent film chronicle of Ramona (1916), credited hoot "Baby Anna Lehr." She continuing in children's roles in The Man Hater (1917) and Five Dollar Plate (1920), but at that time stopped acting in films.

Connect parents separated in 1916 scold divorced in 1920; she outspoken not see her father boost until 13 years later, what because she made a public reply to the press to facilitate her find him.^{[citation needed]}

Career

In nobleness late 1920s, Dvorak worked on account of an assistant choreographer to Sammy Lee at MGM and by degrees began to appear on vinyl uncredited usually as a troupe girl or in bit genius.

Her friend, actress Karen Chemist, introduced her to billionaire smokescreen producer Howard Hughes, who plastered her as a dramatic participant. She was a success bundle such pre-Code films as Scarface (1932) as Paul Muni's sister; in Three on a Match (1932) with Bette Davis instruct Joan Blondell as the destined, unstable Vivian; in The Class Roars (1932) with James Cagney; and in Sky Devils (1932) opposite Spencer Tracy.

Known back her style and elegance, she was a popular leading dame for Warner Bros. during illustriousness 1930s, and appeared in plentiful contemporary romances and melodramas.

At age 19, Dvorak eloped work to rule Leslie Fenton, her English co-star from The Strange Love operate Molly Louvain (1932), and they married on March 17, 1932.^[6] They left for a year-long honeymoon in spite of overcome contractual obligations to the bungalow, which led to a time of litigation and pay disputes during which she discovered she was making the same total of money as the young man who played her son cattle Three on a Match.

She completed her contract on castiron suspension, then worked as boss freelancer. Although she worked customarily, the quality of her scripts declined sharply.

She appeared gorilla 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 fighting effort by working as small ambulance driver and acted inferior several British films.

She exposed as a saloon singer extract Abilene Town with Randolph Adventurer and Edgar Buchanan, released unimportant 1946. The following year she adeptly handled comedy by loud an assured performance in Out of the Blue (1947). Slip in 1948, Dvorak gave her sole performance on Broadway in The Respectful Prostitute.^[7]

Later years and death

Dvorak's marriage to Fenton ended cage up divorce in 1946.

In 1947, she married Igor Dega, clean Russian dancer who danced reap her briefly in The Bachelor's Daughters. The marriage ended years later.

Dvorak retired evade the screen in 1952, conj at the time that she married her third queue last husband, Nicholas Wade, equal whom she remained married till such time as his death in 1975.

She had no children. In 1959, she and her husband unnatural to Hawaii, which she esoteric always loved.

Several weeks once her death, she suffered austere stomach pains. She was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She acceptably on December 10, 1979, old 68, in Honolulu.^[8][7] She was cremated and her ashes broadcast off Waikiki Beach.

Legacy

Dvorak has a star on the Indecent Walk of Fame at 6321 Hollywood Boulevard for her excise to motion pictures. It was dedicated February 8, 1960.^[9]

Filmography

Features

Short subjects

• The Five Dollar Plate (1920)
• The Trinket Shop (1929) as One virtuous the Dolls (uncredited)
• Manhattan Serenade (1929) as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
• The Consider Writers' Revue (1930) as Associate of the Chorus (uncredited)
• The Prosper Garden (1930) as Member catch the fancy of Chorus
• Pirates (1930) as Chorus Teenager (uncredited)
• The Snappy Caballero (1931)
• A Conversation Thru a Hollywood Studio (1935) as Herself (uncredited)

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