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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.
Dorothy Arzner (born January 3, 1897?, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died October 1, 1979, La Quinta, California) was an American filmmaker who was the only woman directing feature-length studio films in Hollywood during the 1930s.
Dorothy Arzner. Director: Christopher Strong. Dorothy Arzner, the only female director during the "Golden Age" of Hollywood's studio system--from the 1920s to the early 1940s and the female director with the largest oeuvre in Hollywood to this day--was born January 3, 1897 (some sources put the year as 1900), in San Francisco, California, to a ...
Dorothy Arzner directed around 20 films over the course of her 24 years in show business. She taught Francis Ford Coppola, directed Katharine Hepburn and Joan Crawford and became the first female...
With a film career spanning from 1919 to 1943, fifteen years of which were spent as a director, Dorothy Arzner remains the most prolific woman studio director in the history of American cinema.
Dorothy Arzner died in 1979. With 16 feature directing credits to her name—and several other films for which she went uncredited—she remains the most prolific female director that Hollywood ...
American filmmaker and the only woman director of the era who developed a substantial body of work within the Hollywood system.
Dorothy Arzner died with no Oscars to her name, honorary or otherwise, and to date, her only reward, to mark a prolific career that spanned from 1922 to 1943, is a star on the...
Dorothy Arzner always showed herself to be a fiercely independent woman. She never made a secret of her lesbianism and presented herself unconventionally for her time, in suits and short cropped hair.
This interview, originally published in Cinema (U.S.) in 1974, was reprinted in the 1975 British Film Institute pamphlet, Dorothy Arzner: Towards a Feminist Cinema, and in the co-authors’ 1977 book, Woman and Cinema: a Critical Anthology (Dutton). It remains by far the most comprehensive interview with Ms. Arzner, who died in 1979.