Ann Dvorak: Hollywood's Forgotten Rebel

Ann Dvorak, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Lee Tracy, and Frances Dee in Love is a Racket (1932, First National/Warner Bros.). 

Ann Dvorak meets her father, Edwin McKim, at the Pasadena train station in 1934. This was the first time they had seen each other in well over a decade. 

Ann Dvorak getting made up by the one and only Max Factor in 1932. 

Ann Dvorak as  Lizzie McKaye in the 1948 Broadway production of Jean-Paul Sartre’s “The Respectful Prostitute” at the Cort Theatre. This was Ann’s only Broadway appearance. 

Scene stills from Housewife (1934 Warner Bros.) starring Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, George Brent, and John Halliday. 

Ann Dvorak as Cesca Camonte in Scarface

Scene stills from The Crowd Roars (1932) with James Cagney, Ann Dvorak, Joan Blondell, and Eric Linden. Directed by Howard Hawks.

Book cover for "Ann Dvorak: Hollywood's Forgotten Rebel," due out in November 2013.