{"id":2672,"date":"2013-05-06T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2013-05-05T21:34:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T04:34:22","slug":"ann-dvorak-background-extra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/ann-dvorak-background-extra\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Dvorak – Background Extra"},"content":{"rendered":"

Year of Ann Dvorak: Day 126<\/h3>\n

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Ann Dvorak spent nearly two and half years at M-G-M when she was a teenager. For most of her tenure she was a chorus girl and dance instructor and was usually kept busy, working on a steady stream of films at the studio featuring musical numbers. By 1931, movie audiences had grown tired of the musical craze that talkies had ushered in, and these types of films instantly fell off production schedules. This left Ann with little to do, and while she hoped the studio would start casting her in speaking roles, that didn’t happen.<\/p>\n

Instead, she started showing up as a background extra in a handful of films, including the William Haines vehicle, Just a Gigolo<\/strong><\/a>. Here she is sitting at a nightclub table, and even though the action is taking place in the foreground, I think she stills stands out. At least she did for me when I came across this photo in the William Haines folder at a local memorabilia shop a few years back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Year of Ann Dvorak: Day 126 Ann Dvorak spent nearly two and half years at M-G-M when she was a teenager. For most of her tenure she was a chorus girl and dance instructor and was usually kept busy, working on a steady stream of films at the studio featuring musical numbers. By 1931, movie […]<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collection-spotlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t