Year of Ann Dvorak: Day 164

Yesterday, we looked at Ann’s signature from the early 1930s. Sometime around 1936, she altered it because someone had been forging her’s on checks. I looked through my mountain of photos and did not find any with the alternate autograph, so here are some paper examples.

The first one is off a 1950 talent agency contract and the second is a 1949 cut. The signature is much more loose than the earlier one, with the biggest difference being the large “D” with part of “vorak” residing within the first letter.

This last cut is from 1964, so you can see that Ann altered her signature very little over 30 years.