Director

Dorothy Arzner

Directing

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Directed movies: 20Directed series: 0All crew credits: 31

TMDB ID: 108983

IMDb ID: nm0002188

Known for: Directing

Born: January 3, 1897

Died: October 1, 1979

Age: 82

Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1919 - 2016

Years active: 98

Average TMDB rating: 6.17

Wikidata: Q447847

Also known as

Dorothy Emma Arzner

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Director (19)Assistant Director (1)Editor (6)Scenario Writer (2)Adaptation (1)Screenplay (1)Story (1)

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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 first woman to join the Directors Guild of America and the first woman to direct a sound film.