Ann Dvorak Movies

A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.

Early Vitaphone short.

During a raid, a cop lets a pretty speakeasy employee escape and later begins dating her. Although she loves him, his salary and dull life leave her...

Unfinished pre-Code era film consisting of three sections with past performers from the stage and the vaudeville circuit, then-present-day performers...

Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.

An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.

Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?

A talented songwriter gets his inspiration for songs from others and not from within himself. He is oblivious that he may harm other people when he...

The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is...

Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.

An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

Phemie, an avowed man-hater, marries Joe, the village blacksmith.

A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve...

A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.

John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs...

Alden "Bill" Carter III sees a beautiful woman, Jerry, dining alone at the Park Savoy in New York, and after a brief flirtation, introduces himself....

A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn...

A department store floor walker is persuaded by four husband-seeking salesgirls to pose as their father in a Long Island mansion which they have...

A shrewd millionaire who owns races horses for publicity for his automobile business, claims ownership of a female horse trainer's thoroughbred in...

British agents operate in Paris during the Second World War.