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DVORAK . . . !
♦ ♦ ♦ She's going to be a big success on the screen. Yet, for a long time she thought she couldn't act
(Below) With Paul Muni in "Scarface,"— Ann's first venture into a real movie part. (Right) With James Cagney in "The Crowd Roars" for which she was lent to Warners by Howard Hughes.
By JACK JAMISON
TWO months ago none of us had ever heard of Ann Dvorak. Now her name is headline material. When she married the young stage and screen actor, Leslie Fenton, on March 17, her photograph and her name appeared in all the papers. The young couple did not intend to make a splurge at all. They slipped away quietly, without telling their friends, and flew to Yuma, Arizona. They were married in the Methodist Church in Yuma by the Reverend Herbert Brooks and then they flew to Agua Caliente to spend part of their honeymoon.
Two months ago, Ann Dvorak was unknown to the fans. Now, suddenly, she bursts onto the screen in five pictures: "Sky Devils," "Scarface," "The Strange Love of Molly Louvain," "The Crowd Roars" and "Love Is a Racket."
An over-night success, a sensation. What is the story behind her smashing rise ? She is pointed straight for star
(Above) With Richard Cromwell in "The Strange Love of Molly Louvain." Her fourth picture. And Ann's work in it makes it seem pretty likely that she'll soon be a star in her own right. And she wanted to be a writer!
dom, goal of a thousand hopes. What did she do to get there ? Is a tale of long yearning, long striving ; of burning ambition to rise to the height of stardom on the screen? No. As a matter of fact, she did not want to be a star. The goal of thousands was no goal for her. She had stardom literally thrust upon her.
Five years ago, at the Page School for Girls in Los Angeles, there was a thin, quiet girl the others called "different." She was not beautiful, according to schoolgirl notions of prettiness ; the only thing at all noteworthy about her face were her high forehead and her big eyes with their high, sweeping, slender brows. She was very serious, diligently getting good grades in her studies. Few of the girls knew that she was working her way through school. Few knew that she wanted to be a newspaper woman. To be a newspaper reporter, not to be a movie star, was Ann's earliest ambition. Her only connection with the drama was that she occasionally helped in the staging and directing of school plays and pageants. She liked that, but she never felt any desire to be in them as an actress. All the time she could spare from studies she gave to the school newspaper, "The Pagette," becoming its editor, finally, which meant that she had to write nearly all of every issue herself. She supported herself by teaching French and dancing to the younger girls in the school. "I couldn't dance myself, but I could teach others," she says.
LEAVING school, Ann was faced with the necessity of getting a job. She was fifteen. Newspapers are not in the habit of giving staff jobs to fifteen year old girls just out of school. She tried and tried — and got no job. "I wore myself out looking for the kind of work I wanted. Then I tried reading the want ads in the paper, and following them up every morning. Nothing came of that either. (Continued on page 100)
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