- Geboren am
- Verstorben1. Oktober 1979 · La Quinta, Kalifornien, USA (nicht bekannt gegeben)
- GeburtsnameDorothy Emma Arzner
- Größe1,63 m
- Dorothy Arzner wurde am 3 Januar 1897 in San Francisco, California, USA geboren. Sie war Regisseurin und Autorin, bekannt für Christopher Strong (1933), Merrily We Go to Hell (1932) und Fashions for Women (1927). Sie starb am 1 Oktober 1979 in La Quinta, California, USA.
- She made history when she became the first woman to direct a sound picture, Manhattan Cocktail (1928).
- On the set of The Wild Party (1929), Arzner, irritated that the microphone was always in one place, had the sound technicians rig one up to a fishing pole and follow the actors around the set with it, in effect creating the first boom mike.
- In 1936, she became the first woman to join the newly formed Directors Guild of America.
- She started in the film business as a typist for director William C. de Mille, and within three years had worked her way up to screenwriter, then editor.
- Longtime companions with Marion Morgan.
- When I went to work in a studio, I took my pride and made a nice little ball of it and threw it right out the window.
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