Ann Dvorak
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| Name: | Ann Dvorak | |
| Status | Deceased | |
| Age: | 68 (August 2, 1911 -December 10, 1979) | |
| IMDB: | IMDb | |
| TMDB: | TMDB | |
| Smoking Status: | Unknown | |
| Type of Celebrity: | Actor | |
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| TMDB Popularity | 13.056 | |
| Biography (TMDB): | 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 vor'shack. 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. Catherine's 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 children's 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 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. Dvorak's marriage to Fenton ended in divorce in 1946. In 1947, she married Igor Dega, a Russian dancer who danced with her briefly in The Bachelor's 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. |
Profile Picture
Movies
A Life of Her Own
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Turner poses for a long photo shoot with a cigarette in a long holder, held in her mouth, ND Dvorak holds in four scenes, ND Background smoking by extras |
Our Very Own
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Four scenes including a lighting, a couple of drags with exhales, and a brief dangle. |
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Amy dangles an unlit, holds in a couple of scenes, and is shown with the start of an inhale in one scene, but never really takes a drag or exhales on camera. Playing her mother, Beth smokes throughout. Overall, not much to see. |
Scarface
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Several scenes smoking looong all-whites. Great close-up. There is a nice scene where she momentarily droops an unlit all-white from the corner of her mouth as she speaks. Several close-ups holding. I don't think Mastrantonio smokes in this film. |
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
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light up scenes |
Three on a Match
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As the title suggests, the three ladies light their Chesterfields from a single match in a nicely-lit scene. Dvorak takes an immediate follow-up drag, Blondell performs two subsequent inhales/exhales, and Davis continues to eat before performing a brief French-inhale. Dvorak has the coolest scene in the picture, inhaling and then releasing a horizontal exhale from her mouth which switches to smoke trickling from her nostrils. She is also holding as she waltzes and as she kisses. The very last scene, two on a match, shows a lighting with French-inhale and a thick mouth-and-nose exhale from Davis, but the film ends before we see whether Blondell snaps back the thick smoke she produces. |
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