Ann Dvorak (born Anna McKim; August 2, 1911 – December 10, 1979) was an American stage and film actress. Asked how to pronounce her adopted surname, she told The Literary Digest My fake name is properly pronounced vorshack. The D remains silent.Dvorak was the daughter and only child of silent film actress Anna Lehr and director Edwin McKim. While in New York, she attended St. Catherines Convent. After moving to California, she attended Page School for Girls in Hollywood.She made her film debut when she was five years old in the silent film version of Ramona (1916), credited as Baby Anna Lehr. She continued in childrens roles in The Man Hater (1917) and Five Dollar Plate (1920), but then stopped acting in films. Her parents separated in 1916 and divorced in 1920; she did not see her father again until 13 years later, when she made a public plea to the press to help her find him.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 Munis 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.Dvoraks marriage to Fenton ended in divorce in 1946. In 1947, she married Igor Dega, a Russian dancer who danced with her briefly in The Bachelors Daughters. The marriage ended two years later.Dvorak retired from the screen in 1951, when she married her third and last husband, Nicholas Wade, to whom she remained married until his death in 1975. She had no children.

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Scarface

Francesca 'Cesca' Camonte

Film 1932

Estrellados

Chorine (uncredited)

Film 1930

Abilene Town

Rita

Film 1946

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

Chorus Girl from Omaha (uncredited)

Film 1929

Madam Satan

Zeppelin Reveler (uncredited)

Film 1930

Gangs of New York

Connie Benson

Film 1938

The Secret of Convict Lake

Rachel Schaeffer

Film 1951

Flame of Barbary Coast

Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry

Film 1945

Blind Alley

Mary

Film 1939

Three on a Match

Vivian Revere

Film 1932

I Was an American Spy

Mrs. Claire 'High Pockets' Phillips

Film 1951

Girls of the Road

Kay Warren

Film 1940

Love Is a Racket

Sally Condon

Film 1932

Heat Lightning

Myra

Film 1934

Our Very Own

Gert Lynch

Film 1950

This Was Paris

Ann Morgan

Film 1942

Gentlemen Are Born

Susan Merrill

Film 1934

Murder in the Clouds

Judy Wagner

Film 1934

Thanks a Million

Sally Mason

Film 1935

Politics

Rally Audience Extra (uncredited)

Film 1931

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone

Connie Kepplar

Film 1950

Bright Lights

Fay Wilson

Film 1935

The March of Time

Chorus Girl (uncredited)

Film 1930

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

Madeleine Forestier

Film 1947

Friends of Mr. Sweeney

Miss Beulah Boyd

Film 1934

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

Madeleine Maude 'Molly' Louvain

Film 1932

College Coach

Claire Gore

Film 1933

Sweet Music

Bonnie Haydon

Film 1935

Sky Devils

Mary Way

Film 1932

Crooner

Judith 'Judy' Mason

Film 1932

Midnight Alibi

Joan

Film 1934

Housewife

Nan Reynolds

Film 1934

Stronger Than Desire

Eva McLain

Film 1939

Stranger in Town

Marian Crickle

Film 1931

Side Streets

Marguerite Gilbert

Film 1934

A Life of Her Own

Mary Ashlon

Film 1950

This Modern Age

Party Guest (Uncredited)

Film 1931

Massacre

Lydia

Film 1934

Midnight Court

Carol O'Neill

Film 1937

Manhattan Merry-Go-Round

Ann Rogers

Film 1937

Dr. Socrates

Josephine

Film 1935

The Bachelor's Daughters

Terry Wilson

Film 1946

I Sell Anything

Barbara

Film 1934

The Woman Racket

Chorus Girl

Film 1930

Ramona

Ramona Phail (age 4)

Film 1916

The Man Hater

Phemie's Sister

Film 1917

Son of India

Dancer (uncredited)

Film 1931

She's No Lady

Jerry

Film 1937

Lord Byron of Broadway

Chorus Girl

Film 1930

Good News

Student

Film 1930

Roast-Beef and Movies

Chorine (archive footage) (uncredited)

Film 1934

We Who Are About to Die

Connie Stewart

Film 1937

Masquerade in Mexico

Helen Grant

Film 1945

It's a Great Life

Chorus Girl

Film 1929

Free and Easy

Chorine (uncredited)

Film 1930

Out of the Blue

Olive Jensen

Film 1947

Squadron Leader X

Barbara Lucas

Film 1943

Way Out West

Carnival Show Girl (uncredited)

Film 1930

Our Blushing Brides

One of the 'Quartet' of Models with Tony (uncredited)

Film 1930

So This Is College

Student (uncredited)

Film 1929

Devil-May-Care

Chorine (uncredited)

Film 1929

Breakdowns of 1936

Self

Film 1936

Cafe Hostess

Jo

Film 1940

Dance, Fools, Dance

Chorus Girl (uncredited)

Film 1931

Hello Pop

Dancer

Film 1933

Chasing Rainbows

Chorus Girl (uncredited)

Film 1930

Manhattan Serenade

Chorus Girl (uncredited)

Film 1929

The Devil's Cabaret

Chorine in Black (uncredited)

Film 1930

The Guardsman

Fan Saying "There He Is" (uncredited)

Film 1931

The Song Writers' Revue

Member of the Chorus (uncredited)

Film 1929

The Way to Love

Madeleine

Film 1933

A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio

Herself (uncredited)

Film 1935

Escape to Danger

Joan Grahame

Film 1943

A Tailor-Made Man

Bit (uncredited)

Film 1931

Children of Pleasure

Chorus Girl (uncredited)

Film 1930

Bogart: The Untold Story

Self (archive footage)

Film 1997

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

Vivian Revere Kirkwood (archive footage)

Film 2008

The Doll Shop

Doll

Film 1929