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Possessing a unique beauty and refined acting skills, Ann Dvorak (1911-1979) found success in Hollywood at a time when many actors were still struggling to adapt to the era of talkies. Seemingly destined for A-list fame, critics touted her as "Hollywood's New Cinderella" after film mogul Howard Hughes cast her as Cesca in the gangster film Scarface (1932). Dvorak's journey to superstardom was derailed when she walked out on her contractual obligations to Warner Bros. for an extended honeymoon. Later, she initiated a legal dispute over her contract, an action that was unprecedented at a time when studios exercised complete control over actors' careers.
As the first full-length biography of an often-overlooked actress, Ann Dvorak: Hollywood's Forgotten Rebel explores the life and career of one of the first individuals who dared to challenge the studio system that ruled Tinseltown. The actress reached her pinnacle during the early 1930s, when the film industry was relatively uncensored and free to produce movies with more daring storylines. She played several female leads in films including The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932), and Three on a Match (1932), and Heat Lightning (1934), but after her walk-out, Warner Bros retaliated by casting her in less significant roles.
Following the casting conflicts and illness, Dvorak filed a lawsuit against the Warner Bros. studio, setting a precedent for other stars who eventually rebelled against the established Hollywood system. In this insightful memoir, Christina Rice explores the spirited rebellion of a talented actress whose promising career fell victim to the studio empire.
- Sales Rank: #963107 in Books
- Brand: Rice, Christina
- Published on: 2013-10-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x 6.50" w x 1.50" l, 1.44 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 384 pages
Review
"Rice is a superb writer with just the right touch―not too heavy, not too light. We really get to know Ann Dvorak."―Eve Golden, author of John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars
"Ann Dvorak: Hollywood's Forgotten Rebel is more than the biography of an overlooked movie star. Author Christina Rice has meticulously researched the life of Dvorak, whose strong, self-reliant characters made her an important presence in the pre-Code era. Written in a reader-friendly style, Ann Dvorak explores the highs and lows of the actress who dazzled viewers in the classics Ann Dvorak and Ann Dvorak ."―Susan Doll, author of Florida on Film: The Essential Guide to Sunshine State Cinema
"Ann Dvorak has always been an enigmatic figure, whether you're looking at her electric vitality in the 1932 Scarface or her feline grace in 1947's The Private Affairs of Bel Ami. Fifteen years separate these unique performances, and there's no one like Ann Dvorak, yet the story of her career remains untold. In Ann Dvorak: Hollywood's Forgotten Rebel, Christina Rice corrects this oversight. We learn about the ambitious young dancer, how her unusual looks and singular intensity pulled her into acting, and how her path to stardom ended in regretful obscurity. This is a compelling story, sometimes exhilarating, sometimes sad, but Christina Rice tells it honestly and objectively. Her dedicated research makes it possible to see both Ann Dvorak and her milieu with clarity. Ann Dvorak l is a sensitive biography of a real talent."―Mark A. Vieira, author of George Hurrell's Hollywood
"A scrupulously researched, consistently insightful and thoroughly welcome biography. Fans and students of Hollywood's fascinating pre-Code era will particularly appreciate a chance to learn more about one of its most sophisticated, intelligent, and hauntingly beautiful actresses."―Margaret Talbot, author of The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century
"Recommended movie star reading . . . Ann Dvorak: Hollywood's Forgotten Rebel by Christina Rice. Ann Dvorak looked to be on the road to stardom at Warner Bros, but she chafed too often at restrictions placed upon her. Yet who besides the most devoted film fanatic knows of Miss Dvorak? Fascinating read on a fascinating actress."―Liz Smith, New York Social Diary
"Ann Dvorak may be the biggest Hollywood star you've never heard of. By 19 years old, she had established herself with a leading role in the 1932 classic "Scarface." But, on the verge of going supernova, the young star seemingly gave it all up for love. Now, after 15 years of research, librarian Christina Rice's long-anticipated biography, Ann Dvorak: Hollywood's Forgotten Rebel, has reignited interest in the star's story."―Nathan Masters, KCET
"Dvorak's story is the intriguing examination of a facet of Hollywood little reported on. Rice captures the loneliness and pain of losing stardom, and just being lonely within old age. It's biographies like these, and authors like Rice, who keep the memory of these forgotten stars burning bright. Ann Dvorak: Hollywood's Forgotten Rebel is part Hollywood biography and paean to a star who may not have always known what she wanted, but was well aware of what she didn't want. Worth seeking out!"―Journeys in Classic Film
"Ann Dvorak: Hollywood's Forgotten Rebel by Christina Rice explores the life and career of one of the first actors who dared to challenge the studio system that ruled Tinseltown, and who found success when many were struggling to adapt to the era of talkies."―Publishers Weekly
"Now, thanks to Rice's epic effort to research and reconstruct her life, Dvorak will be much more than just a ghost of Old Hollywood."―LA Weekly
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About the Author
Christina Rice is a librarian and photo archivist at the Central Library in downtown Los Angeles. (www.anndvorak.com)
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
Rest Assured, No Longer Forgotten
By G.I Gurdjieff
Since I have always had an interest in Dvorak and curious searches regarding her life and career produced little meaningful information, the lazy part of me wanted to find out who this woman was. I call it instant gratification because Christina Rice has heavily researched Dvorak and has written a detailed and interesting book about this actress.
I think the common perception of the term Hollywood Rebel might fall on Bette Davis' shoulders as she is publicly acknowledged as the one who very openly took on Warner Bros. at the height of her fame. After reading this book, the chosen title Hollywood's Forgotten Rebel doesn't seem corny or trite and is actually quite accurate. Sadly,Ann Dvorak has become forgotten while Davis' persona still shines brightly almost three decades after she died. If it weren't for periodic showings of her films on Turner Classic Movies, Ann Dvorak might be completely forgotten today by all except old movie fanatics. This I think is sad because she was really quite talented and could be as tortured and frenzied as the best drama queens at Warner Brothers.
Dvorak started out as a dancer but quickly turned actress in a lot of the the high power movies that Warner Bros. Studio cranked out in the thirties. As much as Kay Francis and Ruth Chatterton warmed up the screen as world wise and forward thinking women, it fell to Dvorak and Davis to heat things up with sexuality and seductiveness. Dvorak starred in a lot of successful tear jerkers as well as the gangster films that punctuated what Warner Brothers were known for. As Rice amply documents both women may have been trying to break out that stereotype, but it was Dvorak who was the victim of her own independence and her career suffered greatly as she was reduced to Poverty Row pictures and supporting parts that were blink worthy when she worked at a major studio. Here lies the truth. On those rare occasions when she made a bedraggled appearance supporting the likes of Ann Blythe or Lana Turner, I used to wonder why such a good actress with so much initial promise had fallen into obscurity. She was obviously attractive, intelligent, and talented. In some respects, she had more to go on than Bette Davis yet Bette kept climbing and had a far more successful film career before age caught up with her. Dvorak didn't seem to have that luxury.
Christina Rice offers a lot of answers to that question and others, while letting Dvorak shine a little while opening the door to her private life as well. This book is well written and much better than a lot of comparable books of this genre in its thoroughness, literate and focused writing, and the author's intimate relationship to her subject. It also helps that Rice is a research librarian and had the added edge of putting her skills to work while unearthing what must have been a lot of relevant material.
I must add that since this was published by the University of Kentucky as part of their Screen Classic series, this serves as an additional endorsement. I have yet to read anything they've published that I haven't liked. I'm glad that Rice took on Dvorak and set the record straight on the lady and her career.
Sure, reading this book definitely qualifies as instant gratification but I am not complaining.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Ann Dvorak's Journey
By History Reader
Christina Rice's well written and lavishly illustrated biography has done a service for all of us who have only discovered Ann Dvorak's work thanks to the reemergence of many pre-code films in the last two decades.
Such films as SCARFACE, THE LOVES OF MOLLY LOUVAIN, and THREE ON A MATCH are quintessential early Dvorak, yet the films that first alerted me to this exceptional actress were not early talkies but were two of her last movies when she played a supporting part with only a few scenes. As a working class woman who had given up her baby for adoption 18 years before, she was unforgettable in OUR VERY OWN (1950), even though I didn't know her name at the time. Some time later, viewing how Dvorak literally stole the George Cukor film, A LIFE OF HER OWN (1950)--even though her role as a model on the way down the ladder of success did not last much past the first quarter of an hour--made me a confirmed fan of the actress who radiated a lifetime of restlessness and vulnerability as well as yearning and anger in her brief appearance.
After her discovery by Howard Hawks and her contract at Warner Bros. in the early '30s, stardom seemed to be in the offing. As the author points out, unlike MGM, Warners was a studio that was in the business of "making movies, not movie stars."
As Rice describes her journey, Ann Dvorak's private life and her ambivalent feelings about being a contract player led to many lost opportunities. Without sentimentalizing her subject, the biographer brings out how the actress with the beautifully expressive blue eyes, striking voice, lithe form and natural sensuality might have become a star.
The same qualities that make this actress so appealing-her air of curiosity, humor, intelligence, and vulnerability, also helped to lead this talented figure to pursue a different, and more unconventional life, beginning with her attempt to break her contract with her studio (Dvorak was among the many Warner contractees who attempted to rebel against the studio, leading eventually to the landmark Olivia de Havilland case in 1944, which prevented studios from tacking on suspension time to the end of an employee's contract). Thanks to the nuanced portrait that Rice paints with her lambent prose and detailed research into her subject, the radiant Ann Dvorak, whose atypical life was replete with contradictions and interesting detours, comes vividly off the page.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
A must have book!
By Mrs. M. Morgan
When Christina Rice first told me she was writing about Ann Dvorak, I must admit (in shame) that I had never heard of her. Thankfully that is no longer the case. Christina's book is a treasure trove of information about this under-mentioned star. The wealth of information is stunning; the sources at the back are overwhelming and the writing is full of passion and warmth. Without doubt nobody else could have ever written this book.
I particularly enjoyed reading about Ann's time in London during World War II. As a Brit myself it was fascinating to read about her experiences and it made her into a very real person instead of a 'movie star'.
This book is a stunning tribute to someone who deserves to be remembered. Ann Dvorak needed a biography. Thank goodness for Christina Rice's vision and research skills!!
I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in biography, history, Hollywood and of course, the movies. It is a must-have for all film collectors in my opinion.
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