{"id":1103,"date":"2012-03-17T08:42:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T16:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2012-03-17T08:42:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T16:42:49","slug":"this-day-in-ann-dvorak-history-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/this-day-in-ann-dvorak-history-9\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in Ann Dvorak History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DvorakFenton1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1104\" title=\"DvorakFenton1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DvorakFenton1-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DvorakFenton1-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DvorakFenton1.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Today marks what would have been the 80th wedding anniversary of Ann Dvorak and Leslie Fenton.<\/p>\n<p>On the morning of March 17, 1932, Ann and Leslie boarded a chartered plane from what is now the Bob Hope airport in Burbank, and flew to Yuma, Arizona. They were married by noon. Instead of flying back home immediately, they took a detour to the Agua Caliente resort in Mexico but did not tell anyone. When the couple did not show up at the expected time, and reports of a plane crash started appearing, the worst was feared. The newlyweds finally arrived in the early evening and were greeted by friends, family, and press photographers.<\/p>\n<p>They marriage would last 14 years and during that time, Fenton would prove to have a great deal of influence over his wife. Ann&#8217;s pre-War years with Fenton did seem to be her happiest and most secure, and the day she eloped was probably one of the most memorable of her life.<\/p>\n<p>Happy anniversary Ann &amp; Leslie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks what would have been the 80th wedding anniversary of Ann Dvorak and Leslie Fenton. On the morning of March 17, 1932, Ann and Leslie boarded a chartered plane from what is now the Bob Hope airport in Burbank, and flew to Yuma, Arizona. They were married by noon. Instead of flying back home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-day-in-history"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110,"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}