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