{"id":3108,"date":"2013-06-18T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/?p=3108"},"modified":"2013-06-17T22:26:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T05:26:46","slug":"this-day-in-ann-dvorak-history-ann-becomes-the-property-of-warner-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/this-day-in-ann-dvorak-history-ann-becomes-the-property-of-warner-bros\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in Ann Dvorak History: Ann Becomes the Property of Warner Bros."},"content":{"rendered":"

Year of Ann Dvorak: Day 169<\/h3>\n

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On June 18, 1932, Warner Bros. officially purchased Ann Dvorak’s contract from Howard Hughes. Ann had signed with Hughes’ Caddo Company in August 1931 after having been cast in Scarface<\/strong><\/a>. She only made one other film for Hughes, Sky Devils<\/strong><\/a>, before he agreed to loan her out to Warner Bros. exclusively for the first half of 1932. The Burbank studio soon decided they were done borrowing Ann and wanted to own her outright, and negotiations were finally completed in June. The final price was $40,000 which was $10,000 more than what MGM had paid for another Caddo contract player – Jean Harlow.<\/p>\n

Warner Bros. immediate plans were to loan Ann out to another studio while their annual summer shut-down was taking place. Little did they know that Ann had her own plans that did not involve making movies…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Year of Ann Dvorak: Day 169 Image courtesy of Annyas.com<\/a> On June 18, 1932, Warner Bros. officially purchased Ann Dvorak’s contract from Howard Hughes. Ann had signed with Hughes’ Caddo Company in August 1931 after having been cast in Scarface. She only made one other film for Hughes, Sky Devils, before he agreed to loan […]<\/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-3108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-day-in-history"],"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