When it comes to pioneers of Hollywood, one of the biggest unsung heroes is Dorothy Arzner. She is the first female director in the Hollywood system also having a hand at editing and writing. Despite ...

Rylee Sweeney is from the Houston area in Texas, though she now lives in Fort Worth, as that's where she attended college. In 2024, she graduated from Texas Christian University with a BA in Writing, ...

On Thursday afternoon Paramount dedicated its Dressing Room building on the Melrose Ave. lot to one of the industry’s pioneers: Dorothy Arzner who to this day continues to count the most directing ...

This is KPBS mid edition, I mourn Cavanagh, it is not often that you have two successful studio pictures directed by women playing in theaters at the same time. Now, Kathryn Bigelow's Detroit as one ...

Objectively reassessing the artistic contributions of a marginalized group has always been a difficult task. Inevitably, the question arises of whether we are studying the work because an individual ...

Dorothy Arzner, who died at age 82 in 1979, must have known that pioneers are as often forgotten as celebrated. She was the first female member of the Directors Guild of America, and the only woman to ...

On Sunday, Hollywood could inch towards breaking the glass ceiling: Greta Gerwig is the fifth woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. If she wins, she will be the second – after ...

The Oscar-winning filmmaker and Paramount CEO Jim Gianopulos took part in naming a studio building after ground-breaking director Arzner, who was also the first woman admitted to the Directors Guild ...

“Isn’t it wonderful you had such a great career, when you had no right to have a career at all.” – A telegram from Katherine Hepburn to Dorothy Arzner. Ah, where to begin with Dorothy Arzner? With her ...

Although long overdue, the time seems right for a rediscovery of Dorothy Arzner, the first female member of the Directors Guild of America. The med-school dropout and one-time ambulance driver went ...