I was visiting the listing for Ann Dvorak: Hollywood’s Forgotten Rebel<\/em><\/a> on the University Press of Kentucky’s website yesterday (yes, I do that), and noticed that a couple more blurbs had been posted. They’re from two of four authors I had submitted earlier in the year who had received a copy of the manuscript about a month ago.<\/p>\n I am enormously grateful to these busy people for taking the time to read the book and write a blurb. I may have been cheating a bit with Mark Vieira who has been a friend for years, but I do admire him tremendously as an author and think his book\u00c2\u00a0Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince<\/em><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0is one of the best Hollywood bios out there. If anyone can spot a pile of tripe, it’s Mark, so if the Dvorak book is not up to snuff I’d like to think he would not have sent in this blurb:<\/p>\n Ann Dvorak has always been an enigmatic figure, whether you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re looking at her electric vitality in the 1932\u00c2\u00a0Scarface<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0or her feline grace in 1947\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0The Private Affairs of Bel Ami<\/i>. Fifteen years separate these unique performances, and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no one like Ann Dvorak, yet the story of her career remains untold. In\u00c2\u00a0Ann Dvorak: Hollywood\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Forgotten Rebe<\/i>l, Christina Rice corrects this oversight. We learn about the ambitious young dancer, how her unusual looks and singular intensity pulled her into acting, and how her path to stardom ended in regretful obscurity. This is a compelling story, sometimes exhilarating, sometimes sad, but Christina Rice tells it honestly and objectively. Her dedicated research makes it possible to see both Ann Dvorak and her milieu with clarity. Ann Dvorak: Hollywood\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Forgotten Rebel is a sensitive biography of a real talent.–Mark A. Vieira, author of\u00c2\u00a0George Hurrell’s Hollywood<\/i><\/p>\n