Dance, Girl, Dance
1940
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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 was an American filmmaker who was the only woman directing feature-length studio films in Hollywood during the 1930s. From 1927 to 1943 she was credited with directing 17 films, including Christopher Strong (1933) and Dance, Girl, Dance (1940), both influential works of feminist.
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.
Jul 13, 2015 · In the golden age of Hollywood, one woman emerged amid a sea of male directors, writes Ella Morton for Atlas Obscura. Dorothy Arzner directed around 20 films over the course of her 24 years in...
Dorothy Arzner. Director: Christopher Strong. Dorothy Arzner, the only woman director during the "Golden Age" of Hollywood's studio system--from the 1920s to the early 1940s and the woman 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 ...
Jul 8, 2015 · 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 ...
Jan 29, 2024 · A beginner’s path through the work of Dorothy Arzner, a technical and thematic visionary whose subversive, feminist films were made when she was, for some years, Hollywood’s only working female director.
Arzner, Dorothy (1897–1979) American filmmaker and the only woman director of the era who developed a substantial body of work within the Hollywood system. Born in San Francisco, California, on January 3, 1897; died in La Quinta, California, on October 1, 1979; only daughter and one of two children of Louis Arzner (a restaurant manager ...
Oct 10, 2016 · 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...
May 22, 2003 · Dorothy Arzner was one of the very few women (including Ida Lupino) who established a name for herself as a director in the film industry of the 1920s and ’30s. Despite the extreme sexism prevalent in Hollywood, Arzner was able to establish what remains to this day the largest body of work by a woman director within the studio system.
