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Dorothy Arzner: Pioneer, Queer, Feminist

2023-0h 53min
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Dorothy Arzner was Hollywood's most powerful director, though History has forgotten her. She began working in the film industry at 19 as a "cutter" before the advent of editors, and gradually worked her way up through the studio system. Determined and ambitious, she was accepted as a director at Paramount, as the first woman to direct a talking picture for the star Clara Bow. A true pioneer of the cinema, she was the only woman director at a major Hollywood studio in the 1930s and 1940s, openly lesbian, dressed like a man, making movies "avant-gardiste" about women's condition. She was a mentor for Francis Ford Coppola, who considers her as one of the most important woman directors of Hollywood.

Directed by Julia Kuperberg Clara Kuperberg

Writers Clara Kuperberg Julia Kuperberg

Stars Tony Maietta Shelley Stamp Emily Carman

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