Word: arzner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Actress Chrystal Herne. The screen version exhibits to good advantage the talents of two other ladies. Her brilliantly vitriolic portrayal as Mrs. Craig is likely to be a turning point for Actress Rosalind Russell, heretofore noted for her smooth handling of light comedy roles. The work of Dorothy Arzner, Hollywood's only woman director, is equally distinguished for giving pace without apparent effort to a picture that might, with less expert treatment, have seemed pedestrian...
...Dorothy Arzner is short, stocky, with a quiet executive manner, a boyish bob and an interest in medicine and sunsets. She graduated from Westlake School, a semi-fashionable Los Angeles seminary for girls, into a job on the switchboard for a wholesale coffee house. A friend got her a $3 raise and a place in the Paramount stenographic department. She became a script girl for Nazimova, did so well that she was pro moted to the cutting room - a department then generally staffed exclusively...
...famed Valentino bullfighting picture Blood and Sand. For Director James Cruze she cut The Covered Wagon, worked on other material for him while he helped promote her into a directorship of her own. She directed Ruth Chatterton in Sarah and Son, which gave Miss Arzner her reputation for handling emotional drama. Arzner successes since have always been with this sort of material, featuring women players like Katharine Hepburn (Christopher Strong), Anna Sten (Nona...
...Director Arzner whispers as if afraid of disturbing some invisible superior. Catching the habit from her actors, electricians, camera crew tiptoe, whisper. Absent are the jovial capers, bawdy stories, practical jokes traditional on male-directed sets. Away from the camera Miss Arzner works in an elaborate office built for her at Columbia, goes home to a hillside where she sleeps beside a window so that the sunrise will wake her. Although her father ran a restaurant, she shows small interest in food, takes rough age for lunch. She has never married, goes out little, is now making Mother Carey...
...Parade (Paramount). It is an extraordinary fact that although 65% of cinema audiences are women and the majority of men who attend cinemas follow the dictates of their companions, there is only one woman director in Hollywood (Dorothy Arzner) and no important woman executive. The Mad Parade is the first picture with an entirely feminine cast. Men are constantly discussed by the women members (Louise Fazenda, Lilyan Tashman, Irene Rich) of a canteen in the War, but no male actor appears in the picture with the possible exception of a large rat at whom the heroine (Evelyn Brent) throws...