{"id":1489,"date":"2013-01-15T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2013-01-15T15:19:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T23:19:20","slug":"ann-dvorak-cover-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/ann-dvorak-cover-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Dvorak: Cover Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Year of Ann Dvorak: Day 15<\/h3>\n

I love magazines and have since I was a kid and dreamed of owning vintage copies of Life<\/em> and Look.<\/em> I felt as if I discovered my own hog’s heaven when I stumbled upon place in Anaheim called the Book Barron which had a whole large room devoted to old back issues of periodicals. In fact, that’s where I found my first magazine with Ann Dvorak on the cover sometime back around 1998. Sadly, the Book Barron is only an online entity now, but I still have that copy of Motion Picture<\/em> with Ann on the cover and have acquired many, many more in the ensuing years.<\/p>\n

He is a sampling of some of the Dvorak magazines in my collection. You might notice a couple of things. 1) The foreign magazine market sure seemed to pay more attention to Ann than those in the States. 2) There sure are a lot of issues with Maurice Chevalier on the cover from The Way to Love<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The issues of Motion Picture<\/em> and Movies<\/em> pictured here are in fact the only two American magazines I have found.\u00c2\u00a0One of the key things to realize about the career of Ann Dvorak is that she skipped town on her Warner Bros. contract before she had a chance to become a big star. Even though she worked at the studio for a few years after returning from this extended honeymoon, Warner Bros. never really promoted her career, which might explain why she did not get on the cover of titles like Photoplay <\/em>and Modern Screen <\/em>(as far as I know).<\/p>\n

If these magazines are any indicator, it sure seems like Ann had a decent following outside the U.S., not to say anything about Chevalier’s popularity.<\/p>\n

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