Year of Ann Dvorak: Day 108

A by product of collecting Ann Dvorak memorabilia for 15+ years is my small collection of items relating to Anna Lehr, Ann’s mom. Lehr started her career as a vaudeville performer before moving on to films. Considering she retired from cinema in the early 1920s, I think the amount of items I have been able to find is pretty impressive. I posted a few of them in an Anna Lehr gallery, which I have not gotten around to updating even though I have picked up a few more items since.

Once upon a time, before marriage and parenthood, I use to actually do eBay searches for all of Ann’s movie titles, along with all of Anna Lehr’s  which is how I came across this lobby card for A Child For Sale from 1920. In some photos of Lehr, you can really tell she is Ann’s mom though in this image she kind of looks like a generic 1910s film actress. Still, a lobby card of Ann Dvorak’s mom is pretty darn cool, don’t ya think?