{"id":3848,"date":"2013-10-07T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/?p=3848"},"modified":"2013-10-07T00:27:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T07:27:42","slug":"this-day-in-ann-dvorak-history-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/this-day-in-ann-dvorak-history-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in Ann Dvorak History: Suspended!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Year of Ann Dvorak: Day 280<\/h3>\n

\"Dvorak058\"<\/p>\n

On Monday, October 7, 1935, Warner Bros. officially suspended Ann Dvorak for being too ill to report to the set of her latest film\u00c2\u00a0Backfire<\/strong>. Her husband, Leslie Fenton, had called in sick for her a couple of days, and even though Ann soon claimed she was well enough to come back to work, Warner Bros. didn’t buy it. \u00c2\u00a0They kept her on suspension until she received a clean bill of health from one of their own doctors. Ann refused, so the suspension continued and she was replaced on \u00c2\u00a0the film (eventually released as Boulder Dam<\/strong>)\u00c2\u00a0with Patricia Eillis.<\/p>\n

When December rolled around with the suspension still in place, \u00c2\u00a0the Fentons filed a lawsuit against the studio. Ann Dvorak was going to war with Warner Bros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Year of Ann Dvorak: Day 280 On Monday, October 7, 1935, Warner Bros. officially suspended Ann Dvorak for being too ill to report to the set of her latest film\u00c2\u00a0Backfire. Her husband, Leslie Fenton, had called in sick for her a couple of days, and even though Ann soon claimed she was well enough to […]<\/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-3848","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