Dorothy Arzner
January 3, 1897 · 129 years old
Dorothy Emma Arzner (January 3, 1897 – October 1, 1979) was an American film director whose career in Hollywood spanned from the silent era of the 1920s into the early 1940s. From 1927 until her retirement from feature directing in 1943, Arzner was the only female director working in Hollywood. Addi…
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Dance, Girl, Dance
After a troupe of danseuses becomes unemployed, one of them takes up burlesque dancing while another dreams of performing ballet.
Merrily We Go to Hell
A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Christopher Strong
A famous female flier and a member of Parliament drift into a potentially disastrous affair.
Honor Among Lovers
Jerry Stafford, a businessman, is in love with his secretary but she deserts him for another man. When she realizes her mistake, she goes back to him. Doris Brown is her girlfriend who is in love with a man named Monty Dunn.
Get Your Man
A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man.