Dorothy Arzner
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1897-01-03 (82 years old)
Deathday
1979-10-01
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Also known As
Dorothy Emma Arzner
Dorothy Arzner
Biography
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...
Acting
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Production
1940
as Director
1933
as Director
1929
as Director
1932
as Director
1930
as Director
1936
as Director
1930
as Director
1943
as Director
1937
as Director
1934
as Director
1931
as Director
1927
as Director
1931
as Director
1922
as Assistant Director
1928
as Director
1923
as Editor
1930
as Director
1922
as Editor
1927
as Director
1925
as Adaptation
1927
as Director
1924
as Writer
1924
as Editor
1924
as Editor
1943
as Director
1944
as Director
1929
as Director
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