Ann Dvorak Death
Anna passed away on December 10, 1979 at the age of 68 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Anna's cause of death was stomach cancer.
When did Ann Dvorak die?
December 10, 1979How did Ann Dvorak die? What was the cause of death?
Stomach cancerHow old was Ann Dvorak when died?
68Where did Ann Dvorak die? What was the location of death?
Honolulu, Hawaii
Ann Dvorak Birthday and Date of Death
Ann Dvorak was born on August 2, 1911 and died on December 10, 1979. Anna was 68 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: August 2, 1911
Date of Death: December 10, 1979
Age at Death: 68
Is Ann Dvorak's father, Edwin McKrim, dead or alive?
Edwin McKrim's information is not available now.
Is Ann Dvorak's mother, Ann Lehr, dead or alive?
Ann Lehr's information is not available now.
Ann Dvorak - Biography
Ann Dvorak Actress - American actress Ann Dvorak was the daughter of silent film director Sam McKim and stage actress Anne Lehr. Educated at Page School for Girls in Los Angeles, Dvorak secured work as a chorus dancer in early talking films: she is quite visible amongst the female hoofers in Hollywood Revue of 1929. Reportedly it was her friend Joan Crawford, a headliner in Hollywood Revue, who introduced Dvorak to multimillionaire Howard Hughes, then busy putting together his film Scarface (1931). Dvorak was put under contract and cast in Scarface as gangster Paul Muni's sister, and despite the strictures of film censorship at the time, the actress' piercing eyes and subtle body language made certain that the "incest" subtext in the script came through loud and clear. Hughes sold Dvorak's contract to Warner Bros., who intended to pay her the relative pittance she'd gotten for Scarface until she decided to retreat to Europe. Warners caved in with a better salary, but it might have been at the expense of Dvorak's starring career. Though she played roles in such films as Three on a Match (1932) and G-Men (1935) with relish, the characters were the sort of "life's losers" who usually managed to expire just before the fadeout, leaving the hero to embrace the prettier, less complex ingenue. Dvorak cornered the market in portraying foredoomed gangster's molls with prolonged death scenes, but they were almost always secondary roles. One of her rare forays into comedy occurred in producer Hal Roach's Merrily We Live (1938), an amusing My Man Godfrey rip-off.In 1940, Dvorak followed her first husband to England, starring there in such wartime films as Squadron Leader X (1941) and This Was Paris (1942). Upon her return to Hollywood in 1945, Dvorak found very little work beyond westerns and melodramas; she did have a bravura role as a cabaret singer held prisoner by the Japanese in I Was an American Spy (1951), but it was produced at second-string Republic Pictures and didn't get top bookings. After Secret of Convict Lake (1951), Dvorak quit film work; she had never found it to be as satisfactory as her stage career, which included a year's run in the 1948 Broadway play The Respectful Prostitute. During her retirement, spent with her third husband, she divided her time between her homes in Malibu and Hawaii, and her passion for collecting rare books.
