{"id":3704,"date":"2013-09-14T10:50:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T17:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2013-09-14T10:51:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T17:51:32","slug":"fact-ann-dvorak-was-not-one-of-the-original-goldwyn-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/fact-ann-dvorak-was-not-one-of-the-original-goldwyn-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact: Ann Dvorak Was NOT One of the Original Goldwyn Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Year of Ann Dvorak: Day 257<\/h3>\n

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Every so often, a tidbit of incorrect Ann Dvorak info floats around that infinite realm known as the Internet and I feel compelled to correct it. As you may recall, back on Day 2 of the Year of Ann Dvorak <\/a>I kvetched about an image of Ann and Marjorie King on the beach who is frequently (and bizarrely) mistaken for Raquel Torres.<\/p>\n

Last week across the Twitterverse, the following was posted, and re-posted, and re-posted.<\/p>\n

Fact: Lucille Ball was one of the twenty original “Goldwyn Girls”, along with Virginia Bruce, Ann Dvorak<\/strong>, Paulette Goddard and Betty Grable,<\/p>\n

This misinformation has been floating around online for at least a decade, and it’s actually not a fact, at least as far as Ann Dvorak is concerned. The Goldwyn Girls were chorines used in films produced by the Samuel Goldwyn Company. Ann did appear in a Goldwyn film, 1950s\u00c2\u00a0Our Very Own<\/strong><\/a>, but in 1930 when the Goldwyn Girls made their debut, Ann was hoofing for MGM.<\/p>\n

Perhaps Ann’s employment at Metro\u00c2\u00a0Goldwyn\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>Mayer as a chorus girl caused someone some confusion at some point. However, Samuel Goldwyn never produced films for the legendary studio that bore his name, and I have never come across any documentation pointing to Ann being loaned out to another studio at that time. I don’t think there has ever been a shortage of chorus girls, so a loan out for uncredited hoofers doesn’t make much sense.<\/p>\n

If you learn nothing else from this site, I hope you’ll note that Ann Dvorak never posed on the beach with Raquel Torres and was never a Goldwyn Girl!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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