FILM DIRECTOR

Dorothy Arzner

1897 - 1979

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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. With the exception of long-time silent film director Lois Weber, from 1927 until her retirement from feature directing in 1943, Arzner was the only female director working in Hollywood. She was one of a very few women able to establish a successful and long career in Hollywood as a film director until the 1970s. Arzner made a total of twenty films between 1927 and 1943 and launched the careers of a number of Hollywood actresses, including Katharine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell, and Lucille Ball. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dorothy Arzner is the 1,097th most popular film director (down from 699th in 2019), the 7,689th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,398th in 2019) and the 287th most popular American Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Dorothy Arzner ranks 1,097 out of 2,041. Before her are Kei Kumai, Mitchell Leisen, Fridrikh Ermler, Edmond Keosayan, Peter Farrelly, and Danièle Thompson. After her are Richard Dembo, August Blom, John Seale, Masaaki Yuasa, Doug Liman, and Alexei Uchitel.

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Among people born in 1897, Dorothy Arzner ranks 245. Before her are Sabino Bilbao, Choʻlpon, Gregorio Fuentes, Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer, Isabel Briggs Myers, and Nils Asther. After her are Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, Émile Albrecht, Louis Wirth, Bert Schneider, Aleksandra Khokhlova, and Adolph Deutsch. Among people deceased in 1979, Dorothy Arzner ranks 205. Before her are Ole Lund Kirkegaard, Amelia Piccinini, Vilho Niittymaa, Nikolai Tikhonov, Margaret Harwood, and Maurizio Arena. After her are Les Clark, Yervand Kochar, Corinne Griffith, Jim Hutton, Jacob L. Devers, and Ľudmila Pajdušáková.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dorothy Arzner ranks 7,691 out of 20,380. Before her are Kerwin Mathews (1926), Fritz Weaver (1926), Honus Wagner (1874), Gary Locke (1950), Mary Arthur McElroy (1841), and John J. Sullivan (1959). After her are Renee O'Connor (1971), Michael Lerner (1941), Art Larsen (1925), Carol Channing (1921), Sid Caesar (1922), and Les Clark (1907).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Dorothy Arzner ranks 287. Before her are Gregory La Cava (1892), Robert Parrish (1916), Christopher Landon (1975), Larry Cohen (1936), Mitchell Leisen (1898), and Peter Farrelly (1956). After her are Doug Liman (1965), Lloyd Kaufman (1945), Ron Clements (1953), Tony Gilroy (1956), Barbara Hammer (1939), and Stephen Sommers (1962).

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