Actress Ann Dvorak with 5-year-old fan Mary Jane Viall, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Actress Ann Dvorak with 5-year-old fan Mary Jane Viall, Los Angeles, 1936

Date Created

April 5, 1936

Date

1936-04-05

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

While appearing before Superior Judge Archibald to fight for the cancellation of her contract with Warner Brothers Pictures over the studio's failure to reinstate her after a bought with illness last November, actress Ann Dvorak took time out to meet five-year-old admirer Mary Jane Viall, daughter of the jury clerk.
Ann Dvorak holds her arm around five-year-old Mary Jane while smiling and talking to the young girl.
Photograph appears with the article, "Court Hears Dvorak Plea," Los Angeles Times, 05 Apr 1936: 8.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Busy as she was yesterday in her suit to cancel her contract with Warner Brothers' Pictures, Ann Dvorak, film actress, found time to greet Mary Jane Viall, daughter of Mrs. Betty Viall, jury clerk of the court.
Text from negative sleeve: 4836 - Ann Dvorak - actress Mary Jane Viall (daughter of Betty Viall, jury clerk) Civil Action (Warner Brother contract) [stamped:] April 15 1936
Handwritten on negative: Ann Dvorak Mary Jane Viall

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Viall, Mary Jane, b. 1931
Dvorak, Ann, 1912-1979

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Actresses--American--California--Los Angeles
Contract negotiations--California--Los Angeles