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Dorothy Arzner
San Francisco, California, USA
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…
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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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2016
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1944
To the Ladies
Movie Director
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1943
First Comes Courage
Movie Director
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1943
Hail and Farewell!
Movie Director
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1940
Dance, Girl, Dance
Movie Director
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1937
The Bride Wore Red
Movie Director
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1936
Craig's Wife
Movie Director
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1934
Nana
Movie Director
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1933
Christopher Strong
Movie Director
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1932
Merrily We Go to Hell
Movie Director
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1931
Working Girls
Movie Director
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1931
Honor Among Lovers
Movie Director
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1930
Anybody's Woman
Movie Director
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1930
Paramount on Parade
Movie Director
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1930
Sarah and Son
Movie Director
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1930
Behind the Make-Up
Movie Director
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1929
Charming Sinners
Movie Director
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1929
The Wild Party
Movie Director
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1928
Manhattan Cocktail
Movie Director
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1927
Get Your Man
Movie Director
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1927
Ten Modern Commandments
Movie Director
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1927
Fashions for Women
Movie Director
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1926
Old Ironsides
Movie Scenario Writer
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1926
Dancing Days
Movie Scenario Writer
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1925
The Red Kimona
Movie Adaptation
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1925
When Husbands Flirt
Movie Screenplay
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1924
Breed of the Border
Movie Scenario Writer
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1924
The No-Gun Man
Movie Story
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1924
Inez from Hollywood
Movie Writer
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1924
Merton of the Movies
Movie Editor
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1923
Ruggles of Red Gap
Movie Editor
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1923
The Covered Wagon
Movie Editor
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1922
Blood and Sand
Movie Assistant Director
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1920
The Six Best Cellars
Movie Editor
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1919
Too Much Johnson
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