Dorothy Arzner
(January 3, 1900 - January 1, 1979) U.S.A.
Film director
Born in San Francisco. She studied medicine at the University of Southern California, but didn't complete her study. Arzner was one of Hollywood's first female directors and the only woman director in 1930s Hollywood, she made Paramount's first sound film, Wild Party, with Clara Bow; she began her Hollwood career working for Cecil B. DeMille as a script girl:
She had a fifty-year relationship with dancer and choreographer Marion Morgan. Arzner died in La Quanta.
Films:
- Fashions for Women (1927)
- The Wild Party (1929)
- Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
- Christopher Strong (1933)
- Nana (1934)
- Craig's Wife (1936)
- The Bride Wore Red (1937)
- The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
- Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
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