The best Ann Dvorak’s movies

Ann Dvorak

Ann Dvorak

02/08/1911- 10/12/1979
Today we present the best Ann Dvorak’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Ann Dvorak’s movies.
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Scarface

Scarface
7.7/10
A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

'G' Men

'G' Men
7.1/10
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.

Sweet Music

Sweet Music
6/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 23/02/1935
  • Character: Bonnie Haydon
A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in New York.

Love Is a Racket

Love Is a Racket
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 18/06/1932
  • Character: Sally Condon
A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue who's beholden to a penthouse gangster.

Dr. Socrates

Dr. Socrates
6.5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 19/10/1935
  • Character: Josephine
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.

Heat Lightning

Heat Lightning
7.1/10
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.

Three on a Match

Three on a Match
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/10/1932
  • Character: Vivian Revere
Mary, Vivian and Ruth are former schoolmates who do some catching up after a chance meeting. Of the three women, Vivian, who married successful lawyer Robert, seems to have the most glamorous life. Vivian really isn't satisfied though, and soon deserts Robert and her son for Mike, a mobster. Before long, Vivian is hooked on drugs, and Mike needs cash.

Flame of Barbary Coast

Flame of Barbary Coast
6.2/10
  • Genre: RomanceWestern
  • Release: 28/05/1945
  • Character: Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
7.4/10
  • Genre: DocumentaryHistory
  • Release: 03/03/2008
  • Character: Vivian Revere Kirkwood (archive footage)
A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.

Midnight Court

Midnight Court
5.9/10
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.

Abilene Town

Abilene Town
6.2/10
Marshall Dan Mitchell, who is the law in Abilene, has the job of keeping peace between two groups. For a long time, the town had been divided, with the cattlemen and cowboys having one end of town to themselves, while townspeople occupied the other end. Mitchell liked it this way, it made things easier for him, and kept problems from arising between the two factions. However…

Cafe Hostess

Cafe Hostess
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/01/1940
  • Character: Jo
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.

Blind Alley

Blind Alley
6.3/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 11/05/1939
  • Character: Mary
A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.

Sky Devils

Sky Devils
5/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 12/03/1932
  • Character: Mary Way
Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for Mary's affections accidently destroy an ammunition dump.

Merrily We Live

Merrily We Live
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 04/03/1938
  • Character: Minerva Harlan
Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of Geraldine.

College Coach

College Coach
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/11/1933
  • Character: Claire Gore
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player. Inside look at college football of the 1930s replete with fake grades, non-student players, and the importance of football to a college's reputation.

The Long Night

The Long Night
6.5/10
City police surround a building attempting to capture a suspected murder. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.

A Life of Her Own

A Life of Her Own
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/09/1950
  • Character: Mary Ashlon
A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.

Dance, Fools, Dance

Dance, Fools, Dance
6.3/10
When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, his naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people.

The Guardsman

The Guardsman
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/11/1931
  • Character: Fan Saying 'There He Is' (uncredited)
An acclaimed actor and his equally acclaimed actress wife, who have been married for less than a year, are already showing signs of strain in their marriage. The actor believes his wife is capable of infidelity and sets out to prove this is so. Disguising himself as the kind of man he believes she fancies (a Russian military officer), the actor woos his wife while she believes him (her husband, that is) to be out of town. The actress shows every sign of succumbing to the "Russian's" advances, yet the husband can never quite put the stamp of certainty on her behavior. The truth eventually reveals itself...or does it?

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