Dorothy Arzner: Pioneer, Queer, Feminist (2023)

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.

Released June 27, 2023 53 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: mdblist.three-actors, imdb.female-movie-director, imdb.movie-director, imdb.hollywood, imdb.lesbian, imdb.lesbian-interest, mdblist.imdb-tv-movie

Country: France
Production Country: France
Languages: English