{"id":21,"date":"2008-01-15T18:50:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T02:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/?p=21"},"modified":"2008-03-21T16:18:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T00:18:18","slug":"this-day-in-ann-dvorak-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/this-day-in-ann-dvorak-history\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in Ann Dvorak History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/Filmography\/?directory=Sky%20Devils%20(1932)&amp;currentPic=14\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/Filmography\/Sky%20Devils%20(1932)\/SkyDevilsL2.jpg\" alt=\"Sky Devils Lobby Card\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On January 15, 1932, the film going public was officially introduced to Ann Dvorak when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/Filmography\/?directory=Sky%20Devils%20(1932)\"><strong>Sky Devils<\/strong><\/a> debuted at the United Artists Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, at Broadway &amp; 9th.<\/p>\n<p>She had appeared in three silent films as &#8220;Baby Anna Lehr&#8221; and could be found hoofing her way through twenty-five or so MGM features and shorts, but this was this first time the name Ann Dvorak appeared in a film credit (she initially worked at MGM under the name Anna Lehr). In actuality, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/Filmography\/?directory=Sky%20Devils%20(1932)\"><strong>Sky Devils<\/strong><\/a> was the second film Ann shot under her newly inked contract with Howard Hughes&#8217; Caddo Company. The release of Ann&#8217;s first film, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/Filmography\/?directory=Scarface%20(1932)\">Scarface<\/a>, <\/strong>would be delayed another two months while Hughes battled with censors. Dvorak&#8217;s role as &#8220;the inevitable girl&#8221;* in this aviation comedy pales in comparison to Cesca Comonte, her tragic character in the classic gangster flick, and it&#8217;s unfortunate that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000N3T0H8?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=anndvoholsfor-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B000N3T0H8\" title=\"Purchase Scarface at Amazon\" target=\"_blank\">Scarface&#8217;s<\/a> <\/strong>censorship issues prevented her career from beginning with a bang.<\/p>\n<p>This concludes This Day in Ann Dvorak History.<\/p>\n<p>*&#8221;United Artists Shows Hughes Sky Thriller.&#8221; <span class=\"italic\"><em>Los Angeles Times,<\/em> <\/span>                     January 17, 1932<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On January 15, 1932, the film going public was officially introduced to Ann Dvorak when Sky Devils debuted at the United Artists Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, at Broadway &amp; 9th. She had appeared in three silent films as &#8220;Baby Anna Lehr&#8221; and could be found hoofing her way through twenty-five or so MGM [&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-21","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\/21","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=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}