Biography: Ann Dvorak |

American actress Ann Dvorak was the daughter of silent film director Sam McKim and stage actress Anne Lehr ("Dvorak" was her mother's maiden name). Educated at Page School for Girls in Los Angeles, Dvorak secured work as a chorus dancer in early... more
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Tags: Biopic Spy Film War War Spy Film 
Length: 85min
I Was an American Spy is a true story, based on a series of autobiographical ~Reader's Digest articles written by Claire Phillips. Ann Dvorak stars as Ms. Phillips, an American nightclub singer trapped in Singapore when the Japanese march in. Having...

Cast: George Cukor Lana Turner   
Tags: Melodrama Drama Romance 
Length: 108min
Lana Turner stars as an ambitious model who seeks her fortune in New York City. She is befriended by over-the-hill cover-girl Ann Dvorak, whose performance carries the story until she commits suicide twenty minutes into the film. Turner promises...

The Secret of Convict Lake (1951)
Cast: Ethel Barrymore Glenn Ford Gene Tierney   
Tags: Adventure Drama Crime Drama Action Crime Western 
Length: 83min
Glenn Ford plays a convict who breaks out of a 19th century Nevada prison in the company of several less handsome inmates. When they enter a snowbound California village, they find that all the men have left to prospect for silver; only the women...

Cast: Samuel Goldwyn Natalie Wood Jane Wyatt   
Tags: Drama Melodrama 
Length: 93min
Joyfully preparing for her high-school graduation, and her 18th birthday, Gail Macauley (Ann Blyth) stumbles across a family secret. Contrary to what she's been raised to believe, Gail's parents (Jane Wyatt, Donald Cook) are not her biological...

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)
Cast: Angela Lansbury George Sanders John Carradine   
Tags: Drama Period Film 
Length: 112min
Writer/director Albert Lewin, ever on the lookout for esoteric story material that would accommodate his fascination with Egyptian sculpture and feline symbolism, managed to inject both into The Private Affairs of Bel Ami. Though based on a Guy de...

The Return of Jesse James (1950)
Cast: Hugh O'Brian   
Tags: Western 
Length: 77min
Return of Jesse James is an excellent example of how to get full value for money from an attenuated budget. John Ireland plays Johnny, a bank robber who closely resembles the late Jesse James. As Johnny's crime spree spreads, so do rumors that Jesse...

Cast: Henry Fonda Vincent Price   
Tags: Film Noir Crime Drama Drama 
Length: 101min
Based upon the French film Le Jour Se Lève, The Long Night opens in the in the midst of a dire situation: ex-serviceman Joe Adams (Henry Fonda) finds himself holed up in his apartment, surrounded by policemen who soon open fire in a relentless and...

Cast: Edgar Buchanan Rhonda Fleming Randolph Scott Lloyd Bridges   
Tags: B-Western Western 
Length: 90min
Dan Mitchell (Randolph Scott) is the town marshal of Abilene, KS, in the turbulent years after the Civil War and the start of the big cattle drives out of Texas. The town is growing faster than a lot of citizens are prepared to deal with it,...

Tags: Comedy 
Length: 86min
If Eagle-Lion's Out of the Blue looks more like a slick Warner Bros. product at times, it's because the film was peopled by former Warners personnel, both in front of and behind the cameras. George Brent and Carole Landis play the Earthleighs, tenants...

The Bachelor's Daughters (1946)
Cast: Claire Trevor Adolphe Menjou   
Length: 88min
Andrew Stone's The Bachelor's Daughters has much of the nonsensical breeziness of Stone's earlier screwball comedy Hi Diddle Diddle; the stylistic link between the two properties is emphasized by the presence in both films of stars Adolphe Menjou and...

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