{"id":256,"date":"2016-01-07T14:29:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:35:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:35:29","slug":"bite-sized-blog-post-dorothy-arzner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/07\/bite-sized-blog-post-dorothy-arzner\/","title":{"rendered":"Bite-sized blog post: Dorothy Arzner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dorothy<\/a><\/p>\n

After returning home from the first World War \u00a0where she worked in the ambulance corps DOROTHY ARZNER decided against medical studies and chose to pursue a career in film directing. She began her career as a writer and editor at Paramount Pictures and eventually leveraged her success in those arenas by telling the powers that be at Paramount if they didn’t give her a directing opportunity she would move to rival studio Columbia.<\/p>\n

Paramount gave her\u00a0Fashions for Women<\/em>\u00a0(1927) \u00a0to direct which was a financial success and led to her being the only woman working as a director in the studio system at the time.<\/p>\n

Tying a microphone to a pole during a scene in an attempt to get better sound she invented what is now known as the boom!<\/p>\n

More to add to this “bite-sized blog” – please send us a comment!<\/p>\n

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Where to watch her films:<\/span><\/h2>\n

FANDOR<\/a><\/p>\n

AMAZON (PRIME-STREAMING)<\/a><\/p>\n

AMAZON (DVDs\/BluRays for PURCHASE)<\/a><\/p>\n

Read more about her:
\n<\/span>BOOKS
\n<\/strong>Directed by Dorothy Arzner by Judith Mayne<\/a><\/p>\n

ONLINE
\n<\/strong>Columbia University Women Film Pioneers Project
\n<\/a>Dorothy Arzner is the focus of a retrospective by UCLA Film and Television Archive
\n<\/a>UCLA
\n<\/a>Sense of Cinema
\n<\/a>Sophisticated: The Hollywood Story of Miss Dorothy Arzner<\/a>
\nWikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
\u00a01943First Comes Courage<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a01940<\/span>Dance, Girl, Dance<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a01937<\/span>The Bride Wore Red<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a01937<\/span>The Last of Mrs. Cheyney<\/a> (uncredited)<\/div>\n
\u00a01936<\/span>Craig’s Wife<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a01934<\/span>Nana<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a01933<\/span>Christopher Strong<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a01932<\/span>Merrily We Go to Hell<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a01931<\/span>Working Girls<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a01931<\/span>Honor Among Lovers<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a01930<\/span>Galas de la Paramount<\/a> (sequence director)<\/div>\n
\u00a01930<\/span>Anybody’s Woman<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a01930<\/span>Paramount on Parade<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a01930<\/span>Sarah and Son<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a01930<\/span>Behind the Make-Up<\/a> (uncredited)<\/div>\n
\u00a01929<\/span>The Wild Party<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a01928<\/span>Manhattan Cocktail<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a01927<\/span>Get Your Man<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a01927<\/span>Ten Modern Commandments<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a01927<\/span>Fashions for Women<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a01922<\/span>Blood and Sand<\/a> (additional footage, uncredited)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After returning home from the first World War \u00a0where she worked in the ambulance corps DOROTHY ARZNER decided against medical studies and chose to pursue a career in film directing. She began her career as a writer and editor at Paramount Pictures and eventually leveraged her success in those arenas by telling the powers that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,49,41,50,21,9,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2ndsexandthe7thart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}