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Ann Dvorak paramount her pop, Edwin Architect in 1934 

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Ann Dvorak: Hollywood's Forgotten Rebel
by Christina Rice
Hardcover - 370 pages
9780813144269
University Press of Kentucky
October 2013

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Ann Dvorak: Hollywood’s Forgotten Rebelby Christina Rice is one of the finest books I have ever read. It's taken me a long time to sit down and write this review because frankly I've been intimidated by it. As a biography of an obscure figure from film history’s past, it’s a simply a masterpiece. From the brief preface you can already tell that the author has a passion for all things Ann Dvorak. Author Christina Rice’s reputation precedes her though and she is known among many classic film enthusiasts as the leading expert on Ann Dvorak. She runs AnnDvorak.com and in 2013 she did daily posts on Dvorak that lasted the entire year. Such an elusive and poorly known figure as Ann Dvorak was required someone with determination and passion to tell her story. There's no one else who could do it justice.

Author Christina Rice puts together the puzzle of Dvorak's life so we can see the bigger picture, even though there are plenty of pieces missing. In other words, the author does a lot with a little. Children usually carry on the legacy of their parents. For those with fame and r

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Ann Dvorak

“I don’t want to go back to Hollywood if I can help it. I want to go back to the stage. The trouble with Hollywood is everybody is crazy for money. The producers are trying to make pictures cheaper and faster. They do not realize the public is becoming more critical, and can see the cheapness.” –Ann Dvorak

Ann Dvorak was an actress of the stage and screen who flourished during the pre-Code Hollywood Era and the early years of the Hays Code. Born Anna McKim in New York City on August 2, 1911, to actor and director Edwin McKim and actress Anna Lehr, she attended St. Catherine’s Convent in Manhattan. Her parents divorced when Dvorak was young. Dvorak would not reunite with her father until 1934, when she made a plea to the press to help her locate him. Six men claimed to be her father before her actual father–living in Philadelphia with no idea that she was in films–materialized.

Dvorak and her mother moved to California, where she would attend the Page School for Girls in Hollywood. By 1916, she would make her film debut in Ramona (1916), billed as Baby Anna Lehr. As the years went on, Dvorak fulfilled roles as a child in The Man Hater (1917) and Five Dollar Plate (1920) before stepping away from the screen to foc