This Day in Ann Dvorak History: Sold Down The River

Year of Ann Dvorak: Day 199

July1932

 Los Angeles Times headline

On July 18, 1932 Ann Dvorak and husband Leslie Fenton arrived in New York after two weeks aboard the SS Virginia, which had traveled east from Los Angeles via the Panama Canal. Ann had abruptly sailed at the beginning of the month, effectively breaching her contract with Warner Bros. Even though Jack Warner and her mother had sent telegrams urging Ann to turn around and come back to Hollywood, she had forged ahead. When she stepped off the ship, she and Fenton were on fire, proclaiming that producers were slave drivers and that Howard Hughes had sold Ann up the river by selling her contract with him to Warner Bros. Any hopes of reversing her actions of the previous two weeks quickly evaporated, and Ann and Leslie prepared to continue their defiant journey to Europe.

4 Comments

  1. Scott July 18, 2013

    More than likely this will be covered in the book, but how much of Ann’s rebelliousness at this point in time was stoked, or at the least abetted, by her new husband?

  2. admin July 18, 2013

    Gotta make you wait for the book on that one! 😀

  3. Scott July 18, 2013

    Tease!

  4. admin July 18, 2013

    After 15 years of working in this project, I think I have earned the right to be a relentless tease!

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