Ann Boyar Warner
1908 - 1990

Ann Boyar, born in Ferriday in 1908, was the only child of a Russian Jewish Immigrant family.  Ann's father owned a general store in Ferriday, and she attended the town's one-room school.  Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was 12, and shortly after the move, her mother died.  Ann first married at age 16 to a silent screen movie actor, Don Alvarado.  In 1932, she met the Hollywood mogul, Jack L. Warner, of Warner Brothers Studios.  They married in 1936.

Ann Boyar Warner soon became known as a legendary Hollywood hostess, entertaining movie stars and friends in the Warners' Beverly Hills home at 1801 Angelo Drive.  She became an expert in interior design and traveled Europe to collect art, antiquities, and English furnishings for the house.  In one of the many rooms of the mansion hung a portrait of Ann painted by Salvador Dali.  Ann Boyar Warner died in 1990 and is buried beside her husband in Los Angeles,California.