{"id":569,"date":"2010-08-04T15:12:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T23:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/?p=569"},"modified":"2013-03-03T08:17:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T16:17:14","slug":"dvorak-biography-progress-report-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/dvorak-biography-progress-report-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Dvorak Biography Progress Report #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I just realized it’s been an embarrassingly long time since I posted an update on the progress of the Ann Dvorak biography. Right after I wrote the last report in October, I found out I was pregnant with my first child. While I was spared the horrors of morning sickness, I was unable to stay awake past 7:30pm on most days during the first trimester, and had to put Ann-D on hold. During the remainder of the pregnancy, I did manage to write a couple more chapters.\u00c2\u00a0 I have finally gotten into Ann’s tenure at Warner Bros. which means I have lots of movies to watch to refresh my memory.<\/p>\n

In recent\u00c2\u00a0 months, I have discovered more about the career of Ann’s father in the early 1920s, and spent an afternoon at USC accessing primary documents from her M-G-M days. I now need to go back and add this info into previous chapters. In the waning days of my pregnancy, I finally made the trek to Norwalk to visit the Registrar Recorder and discovered some new information about Miss D via real estate records. I’ve been with Ann for almost 13 years, and the research is never ending!<\/p>\n

My daughter, Gable, was born in early June and has proven to be two full time jobs. I still have another month of maternity leave, and now that I am getting the hang of this mother thing, I hope to get a couple more chapters in before I go back to work, but that could be a supremely naive statement.<\/p>\n

Thanks to everyone who has sent kind words of encouragement. It’s always great to know there are fans out there who are interested in reading a full length biography on Ann Dvorak. I appreciate everyone’s patience as I slowly work my way through Ann’s story. No one wants this book to be done more than me, but life has a way of altering the best laid plans. In this case it has been a good thing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just realized it’s been an embarrassingly long time since I posted an update on the progress of the Ann Dvorak biography. Right after I wrote the last report in October, I found out I was pregnant with my first child. While I was spared the horrors of morning sickness, I was unable to stay […]<\/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":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography-progress-reports","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