Dorothy Arzner
Directing
Born 1897-01-03
Died 1979-10-01
San Francisco, California, USA
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Dorothy Emma Arzner (January 3, 1897 – October 1, 1979) was an American film director whose career in Hollywood spanned from the silent era of the 1920s into the early 1940s. From 1927 until her retirement from feature directing in 1943, Arzner was the only female director working in Hollywood. Additionally, she was one of a very few women able to establish a successful and long career in Hollywood as a film director until the 1970s. Arzner made a total of twenty films between 1927 and 1943 and launched the careers of a number of Hollywood actresses, including Katharine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell, and Lucille Ball. Additionally, Arzner was the first woman to join the Directors Guild of America and the first woman to direct a sound film.
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Filmography
Directing
21 credits
Working Girls
Dance, Girl, Dance
Charming Sinners
Merrily We Go to Hell
Craig's Wife
Christopher Strong
Paramount on Parade
The Wild Party
The Bride Wore Red
Get Your Man
Anybody's Woman
Fashions for Women
Sarah and Son
Behind the Make-Up
Nana
Honor Among Lovers
First Comes Courage
Ten Modern Commandments
Manhattan Cocktail
To the Ladies
Hail and Farewell!
Other credits
8 credits
Blood and Sand
Old Ironsides
The Covered Wagon
Merton of the Movies
Inez from Hollywood
Too Much Johnson
The Six Best Cellars
Ruggles of Red Gap
Acting
6 credits
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Old Ironsides
The Red Kimona
Breed of the Border
Dancing Days
The No-Gun Man
Writing
3 credits
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