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Dorothy Arzner: Pioneer, Queer, Feminist (2023)
Directed by Clara Kuperberg, Julia Kuperberg
Documentary · 53m
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.
Cast
Tony Maietta
Crew
- Director
- Clara Kuperberg, Julia Kuperberg
- Writer
- Clara Kuperberg, Julia Kuperberg
- Director of Photography
- Yoram Astrakhan
- Editor
- Clara Kuperberg, Julia Kuperberg
- Producer
- Clara Kuperberg, Julia Kuperberg
Details
- Release date
- 2023-06-27
- Runtime
- 53m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- France