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\u00c2\u00a0Los Angeles Times headline<\/em><\/p>\n On July 18, 1932 Ann Dvorak and husband Leslie Fenton arrived in New York after two weeks aboard the SS Virginia, which had traveled east from Los Angeles via the Panama Canal. Ann had abruptly sailed at the beginning of the month<\/a>, effectively breaching her contract with Warner Bros. Even though Jack Warner and her mother had sent telegrams urging Ann to turn around and come back to Hollywood, she had forged ahead. When she stepped off the ship, she and Fenton were on fire, proclaiming that producers were slave drivers and that Howard Hughes had sold Ann up the river by selling her contract with him to Warner Bros. Any hopes of reversing her actions of the previous two weeks quickly evaporated, and Ann and Leslie prepared to continue their defiant journey to Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Year of Ann Dvorak: Day 199 \u00c2\u00a0Los Angeles Times headline On July 18, 1932 Ann Dvorak and husband Leslie Fenton arrived in New York after two weeks aboard the SS Virginia, which had traveled east from Los Angeles via the Panama Canal. Ann had abruptly sailed at the beginning of the month, effectively breaching her […]<\/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-3352","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