{"id":4290,"date":"2014-01-05T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/?p=4290"},"modified":"2014-01-04T17:29:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T01:29:32","slug":"ann-dvorak-pops-up-in-the-darnedest-places-the-photo-archive-i-oversee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/ann-dvorak-pops-up-in-the-darnedest-places-the-photo-archive-i-oversee\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Dvorak Pops Up in the Darnedest Places: The Photo Archive I Oversee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yeah, I’m supposed to be giving myself a break from the blogging, but this latest development is too exciting (well, it’s exciting for me) not to share.<\/p>\n

I have been overseeing the photo collection of the Los Angeles Public Library <\/a>for almost five years. I thought I had turned over every stone looking for images of Ann, but apparently not. While looking for something unrelated I came across two photos of the “living billboard”<\/a> that was erected on June 18, 1929 at the corner of Wilshire & Shatto by MGM to promote\u00c2\u00a0The Hollywood Revue of 1929<\/strong><\/a>. Those of you who have a copy of\u00c2\u00a0Ann Dvorak: Hollywood’s Forgotten Rebel<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>will recognize this because there is a closer photo of the bizarre set-up in the book. You’ll have to take my work that Ann is on the first “O” in HOLLYWOOD.<\/p>\n

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I was so excited to find these in the online collection that I went to pull the hard copy and low and behold found the top photo in the folder! The focal point of the image is supposed to be Sir Jagajit Singh of India who was visiting (at least that’s the description on the photo), but look who is right there in the middle! That’s right, our beloved Ann Dvorak is right there. This was taken on the set of\u00c2\u00a0The Woman Racket<\/strong> <\/a>(1930), so we also have Blanche Sweet in white and Sally Starr in black next to Ann-D.<\/p>\n

It sure doesn’t take much to please me! Happy Sunday.<\/p>\n

(All three photos are from the Los Angeles Public Library\/Security Pacific National Bank Collection)\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I’m supposed to be giving myself a break from the blogging, but this latest development is too exciting (well, it’s exciting for me) not to share. I have been overseeing the photo collection of the Los Angeles Public Library for almost five years. I thought I had turned over every stone looking for images […]<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"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