Dorothy Arzner: Pioneer, Queer, Feminist

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Tony Maietta

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Shelley Stamp

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Emily Carman

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Clara Kuperberg Julia Kuperberg
Crew	Cinematography	Yoram Astrakhan
Editing	Editor	Clara Kuperberg Julia Kuperberg
Writing	Writer	Clara Kuperberg Julia Kuperberg
Production	Producer	Clara Kuperberg Julia Kuperberg
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