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Ann Dvorak is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Choreographer American born on 2 august 1911 at New York City (USA)

Ann Dvorak

Ann Dvorak
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Birth name Anna McKim
Nationality USA
Birth 2 august 1911 at New York City (USA)
Death 10 december 1979 (at 68 years) at Honolulu (USA)

Ann Dvorak (August 2, 1911 – December 10, 1979) was an American 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. I have had quite a time with the name, having been called practically everything from Balzac to Bickelsrock."

Biography

Fille de l'actrice de muet Anna Lehr, Ann Dvorak apparaît pour la première fois au cinéma à quatre ans, dans le film américain Ramona (1916). Elle commença à travailler pour la MGM à la fin des années 1920 comme professeur de danse puis tourna dans des films comme choriste. Son amie Joan Crawford la présenta à Howard Hughes, qui en fit une actrice dramatique. Elle se révéla au grand public dans Scarface (1932), dans le rôle de la sœur de Paul Muni ; puis elle connut le succès avec Une allumette pour trois (1932) dans le rôle tragique de Vivian, aux côtés de Joan Blondell et de Bette Davis ; dans Love Is a Racket (1932) ; et dans Sky Devils (1932) où elle donne la répartie à Spencer Tracy.

Réputée pour son style et son élégance, elle était l'une des stars de la Warner Brothers dans les années 1930, et tint les premiers rôles dans plusieurs films sentimentaux et mélodrames. Elle mit un terme à son contrat lorsqu'elle apprit que l'enfant qui jouait son fils dans Une allumette pour trois recevait le même cachet qu'elle. Elle se produisit désormais elle-même, mais si elle trouva toujours des rôles à jouer, la qualité des scripts déclina rapidement. On la retrouve ainsi comme la secrétaire Della Street de Perry Mason interprété par Donald Woods dans The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937). Elle se produisait également sur les planches à Broadway. Plus tard, mariée un temps à l'acteur et réalisateur britannique Leslie Fenton, elle tournera ainsi une poignée de films au Royaume-Uni, tout en participant à l'effort de guerre comme ambulancière, Son interprétation d'entraîneuse de saloon dans Règlement de comptes à Abilene Town (1946) est inoubliable.

Après un dernier film en 1951 et quelques séries pour la télévision de 1950 à 1952, elle met un terme définitif à sa carrière, à la suite de son mariage avec son troisième et ultime époux, Nicholas Wade († 1975). Elle passa ses années de retraite dans l'anonymat et mourut d'un cancer de l'estomac à Honolulu.

Outre "Ann Dvorak", elle est quelquefois créditée (à ses débuts) "Anna Lehr" ou "Baby Anna Lehr" ou encore "Ann McKim".

Une étoile lui est dédiée sur le Walk of Fame d'Hollywood Boulevard.

Usually with

Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
(21 films)
Orry-Kelly
Orry-Kelly
(11 films)
John Wayne
John Wayne
(2 films)
Cliff Edwards
Cliff Edwards
(9 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ann Dvorak (78 films)

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Actress

The Secret of Convict Lake, 1h23
Directed by Michael Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Glenn Ford, Gene Tierney, Ethel Barrymore, Zachary Scott, Ann Dvorak, Cyril Cusack
Roles Rachel Schaeffer
Rating68% 3.442843.442843.442843.442843.44284
In 1871, six convicts escape from a Carson City prison. A posse loses them in a mountain blizzard, and after the posse turn back, the convicts continue on foot and one of the fugitives freezes to death. The five remaining are Canfield, Greer, Cockerell, Anderson and Maxwell. They make it to a lake called Monte Diablo, where five women live in a settlement while their men are away prospecting for silver. Granny is the elder, watching over Marcia, Rachel, Harriet and Barbara.
I Was an American Spy, 1h25
Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Ann Dvorak, Gene Evans, Douglas Kennedy, Richard Loo, Philip Ahn, Jerry Fujikawa
Roles Mrs. Claire 'High Pockets' Phillips
Rating64% 3.2379653.2379653.2379653.2379653.237965
Claire Phillips, an American-born Filipina living in Manila and working as a cafe entertainer on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor. She meets and marries an American soldier, and with her husband, witnesses the Japanese invasion. Her husband is captured, and then killed in the Bataan Death March. Phillips joins the anti-Japanese resistance, and in order to obtain intelligence to send back to the United States, she opens a nightclub catering to Japanese officers. She successfully passes useful intelligence on to the American forces and the Filipino underground, but is then discovered, imprisoned, and tortured by the Japanese. Sentenced to death, she is rescued in the nick of time, and later awarded the Medal of Freedom.
A Life of Her Own, 1h48
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Louis Calhern, Ann Dvorak, Barry Sullivan, Tom Ewell
Roles Mary Ashlon
Rating61% 3.095333.095333.095333.095333.09533
Lily Brannel James leaves her small home town in Kansas for New York City, and she is hired by the Thomas Caraway Model Agency. She befriends former top model Mary Ashlon, who becomes her mentor. Mary is depressed about her foundering career and, following a night of excessive drinking, she commits suicide.
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone, 1h9
Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Marjorie Main, James Whitmore, Ann Dvorak, Phyllis Kirk, Fred Clark, Dorothy Malone
Roles Connie Kepplar
Rating66% 3.343463.343463.343463.343463.34346
Montana housewife Hattie O'Malley boards a train bound for New York because she's on her way to collect a prize she's won from a radio program. Getting on board in Chicago is criminal attorney John J. Malone, whose client, Steve Kepplar, just released from prison in Joliet, still owes him $10,000.
Our Very Own, 1h33
Directed by David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families
Actors Ann Blyth, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Jane Wyatt, Ann Dvorak, Donald Cook
Roles Gert Lynch
Rating66% 3.3391453.3391453.3391453.3391453.339145
Los Angeles teenager Gail Macaulay is going steady with deliveryman Chuck, a relationship that sparks jeaolusy in her younger sister Joan. When Joan needs her birth certificate in order to obtain summer employment, her mother Lois tells her to look in a box in her dresser, where the girl discovers Gail's adoption papers.
The Return of Jesse James, 1h15
Directed by Arthur Hilton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors John Ireland, Ann Dvorak, Henry Hull, Reed Hadley, Hugh O'Brian, Clifton Young
Roles Sue Ellen Younger
Rating59% 2.955532.955532.955532.955532.95553
Frank James et supporte mal essaie d'arrêter un Drifter impitoyable qui a adopté le nom de son frère mort afin de reproduire ses crimes.
The Walls of Jericho, 1h46
Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell, Anne Baxter, Kirk Douglas, Ann Dvorak, Marjorie Rambeau
Roles Belle Connors
Rating68% 3.4359853.4359853.4359853.4359853.435985
County attorney Dave Connors is stuck in an unhappy marriage to his wife, Belle. He invites his friends, newly-married Tucker and Algeria Wedge, to come and visit.
The Long Night, 1h41
Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak, Howard Freeman, Elisha Cook, Jr.
Roles Charlene
Rating64% 3.244463.244463.244463.244463.24446
A dead man tumbles down a flight of stairs. When the police arrive at the top-floor apartment of Joe Adams (Henry Fonda), he shoots at them through the door.
Out of the Blue, 1h24
Directed by Leigh Jason
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors George Brent, Ann Dvorak, Turhan Bey, Virginia Mayo, Carole Landis, Elizabeth Patterson
Roles Olive Jensen
Rating62% 3.146813.146813.146813.146813.14681
Arthur Earthleigh (George Brent) lives in an apartment in Greenwich Village where he is dominated by his wife Mae (Carole Landis) and annoyed by Rabelais, the German Shepherd owned by his neighbour, artist and swinging bachelor David (Turhan Bey). David has a constant parade of attractive women visiting his apartment to pose for him. He currently is being visited by Deborah (Virginia Mayo) who wants David's champion Rabelais to breed with her dog.
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami, 1h47
Directed by Robert Aldrich, Albert Lewin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Ann Dvorak, John Carradine, Warren William, Susan Douglas Rubes
Roles Madeleine Forestier
Rating66% 3.340883.340883.340883.340883.34088
Paris, en 1880. Georges Duroy retrouve un ami, journaliste politique à La Vie française, Charles Forestier. Ils dînent ensemble chez le directeur du journal, Monsieur Walter. Ce dernier embauche Duroy qui prend des conseils d'écriture auprès de son ami. Celui-ci l'oriente vers sa femme, Madeleine, qui s'avère être le véritable auteur des articles du journaliste, ce dont se rend vite compte Duroy. Désormais surnommé "Bel Ami", Georges devient l'amant de Clotilde de Marelle, rencontrée au dîner, qui comprend vite qu'il est un séducteur. Après le décès de Charles Forestier atteint de tuberculose, Georges épouse sa veuve et profite à son tour de ses talents de chroniqueuse.
Abilene Town, 1h29
Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Ann Dvorak, Edgar Buchanan, Rhonda Fleming, Lloyd Bridges, Helen Boyce
Roles Rita
Rating61% 3.0939953.0939953.0939953.0939953.093995
In the years following the Civil War, Kansas is in the middle of a difficult time. Homesteaders are moving into the west, trying to start new lives, and are going head to head against cattlemen who have been settled in that territory for years. In Abilene, one of the biggest cattle towns of the west, the town is on the brink of a confrontation between the cattlemen and the homesteaders.
The Bachelor's Daughters, 1h28
Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Gail Russell, Claire Trevor, Ann Dvorak, Adolphe Menjou, Billie Burke, Jane Wyatt
Roles Terry Wilson
Rating65% 3.2797253.2797253.2797253.2797253.279725
This script must be run from the command line
Masquerade in Mexico, 1h36
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Córdova, Patric Knowles, Ann Dvorak, George Rigaud, Natalie Schafer
Roles Helen Grant
Rating58% 2.9106752.9106752.9106752.9106752.910675
Ill on the flight to Mexico City, honest banker Tom Grant doesn't know that Angel O'Reilly, seated nearby, has slipped a diamond into his pocket. She is traveling with the decidedly dishonest Boris Cassal, smuggling the gem for him, but slips away at the customs checkpoint while Tom is detained.
Flame of Barbary Coast, 1h31
Directed by William Frawley, Joseph Schildkraut, John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Kane, Borden Chase
Origin USA
Genres Action, Romance, Western
Actors John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut, William Frawley, Virginia Grey, Russell Hicks
Roles Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry
Rating61% 3.097643.097643.097643.097643.09764
Naive Montana cowboy Duke Fergus (John Wayne) arrives in San Francisco and visits the notorious Barbary Coast. He becomes smitten with the lovely star attraction of the fanciest gambling hall, "Flaxen" Tarry (Ann Dvorak), the "Flame of the Barbary Coast". He gets talked into gambling against the owner (and Flaxen's lover), card shark Tito Morell (Joseph Schildkraut). Predictably, Fergus gets cheated and loses all his money.
Squadron Leader X, 1h39
Directed by Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Spy
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Eric Portman, Ann Dvorak, Walter Fitzgerald, Martin Miller, Beatrice Varley, Henry Oscar
Roles Barbara Lucas
Rating70% 3.5028153.5028153.5028153.5028153.502815
Erich Kohler (Portman), a crack Luftwaffe pilot who speaks fluent English, is instructed by his superiors to drop a cargo of bombs on the Belgian city of Ghent and then to bale out of his plane wearing a British RAF uniform, gain the confidence of the local populace and then try to convince them that the British are responsible for the bombing of civilian targets in Belgium. The plan goes awry when he falls into the hands of the Belgian Resistance, who believe they are doing him a favour by arranging for him to be smuggled to Britain among a group of downed RAF pilots who are being returned that night.