Ann Dvorak actrice
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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.
Francesca 'Cesca' Camonte
Film 1932
Chorine (uncredited)
Film 1930
Rita
Film 1946
Chorus Girl from Omaha (uncredited)
Film 1929
Zeppelin Reveler (uncredited)
Film 1930
Connie Benson
Film 1938
Rachel Schaeffer
Film 1951
Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry
Film 1945
Mary
Film 1939
Vivian Revere
Film 1932
Mrs. Claire 'High Pockets' Phillips
Film 1951
Kay Warren
Film 1940
Sally Condon
Film 1932
Myra
Film 1934
Gert Lynch
Film 1950
Ann Morgan
Film 1942
Susan Merrill
Film 1934
Judy Wagner
Film 1934
Sally Mason
Film 1935
Rally Audience Extra (uncredited)
Film 1931
Connie Kepplar
Film 1950
Fay Wilson
Film 1935
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Film 1930
Madeleine Forestier
Film 1947
Miss Beulah Boyd
Film 1934
Madeleine Maude 'Molly' Louvain
Film 1932
Claire Gore
Film 1933
Bonnie Haydon
Film 1935
Mary Way
Film 1932
Judith 'Judy' Mason
Film 1932
Joan
Film 1934
Nan Reynolds
Film 1934
Eva McLain
Film 1939
Marian Crickle
Film 1931
Marguerite Gilbert
Film 1934
Mary Ashlon
Film 1950
Party Guest (Uncredited)
Film 1931
Lydia
Film 1934
Carol O'Neill
Film 1937
Ann Rogers
Film 1937
Josephine
Film 1935
Terry Wilson
Film 1946
Barbara
Film 1934
Chorus Girl
Film 1930
Ramona Phail (age 4)
Film 1916
Phemie's Sister
Film 1917
Dancer (uncredited)
Film 1931
Jerry
Film 1937
Chorus Girl
Film 1930
Student
Film 1930
Chorine (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 1934
Connie Stewart
Film 1937
Helen Grant
Film 1945
Chorus Girl
Film 1929
Chorine (uncredited)
Film 1930
Olive Jensen
Film 1947
Barbara Lucas
Film 1943
Carnival Show Girl (uncredited)
Film 1930
One of the 'Quartet' of Models with Tony (uncredited)
Film 1930
Student (uncredited)
Film 1929
Chorine (uncredited)
Film 1929
Self
Film 1936
Jo
Film 1940
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Film 1931
Dancer
Film 1933
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Film 1930
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Film 1929
Chorine in Black (uncredited)
Film 1930
Fan Saying "There He Is" (uncredited)
Film 1931
Member of the Chorus (uncredited)
Film 1929
Madeleine
Film 1933
Herself (uncredited)
Film 1935
Joan Grahame
Film 1943
Bit (uncredited)
Film 1931
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Film 1930
Self (archive footage)
Film 1997
Vivian Revere Kirkwood (archive footage)
Film 2008
Doll
Film 1929
