{"id":3685,"date":"2013-09-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2013-09-07T12:43:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T19:43:59","slug":"ann-dvoraks-los-angeles-pt-6-metro-goldwyn-mayer-studios-10202-w-washington-blvd-culver-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/ann-dvoraks-los-angeles-pt-6-metro-goldwyn-mayer-studios-10202-w-washington-blvd-culver-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Dvorak’s Los Angeles Pt.6 – Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Year of Ann Dvorak: Day 251<\/h3>\n
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MGM Studio in Culver City Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Ann Dvorak is usually associated with Warner Bros., the studio she was under contract to, and warred with, from 1932-1936. However, the first studio to sign a deal with Ann was Metro Goldwyn Mayer.<\/p>\n

Ann was an unfashionable, but spunky teenager when she showed up at MGM’s fabled studio gates, hoping to land a gig in the chorus for\u00c2\u00a0The Hollywood Revue of 1929<\/strong><\/a>. She made the line-up by the skin of her teeth and was eventually offered a contract as a dancer and assistant choreographer.<\/p>\n

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Chorine wasn’t a long-term career plan for Ann and when she was still getting cast in uncredited dancer or extra parts two years later, she ceased being enchanted with the studio that boasted, “more stars than in the heavens.”<\/p>\n

She eventually left to make a little film called\u00c2\u00a0Scarface<\/strong><\/a>, but did return to Culver City a handful of times as a freelancer.<\/p>\n