Dorothy Arzner Trailers
The Women Who Run Hollywood Trailer
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. Additionally, 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. Additionally, Arzner was the first woman to join the Directors Guild of America and the first woman to direct a sound film.
Most Popular Dorothy Arzner Trailers
Total trailers found: 35
03 November 1924
A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out. This film is lost.
01 December 1919
Augustus Billings has a domineering mother-in-law, and to get away from both her and his wife, he takes a trip, claiming that he is going off to check on Mexican oil investments.
08 February 1920
Henry Carpenter and his wife Millicent are the envy of their exclusive suburban set because of their abundant wine cellar, a blessing in the face of the recent prohibition against alcohol initiated by the Volstead Act.
26 March 1927
Celeste de Givray is renowned throughout Europe as the most beautiful and best-dressed model in all Paris.
17 August 1929
Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he falls in love with Anne-Marie Whitley (Mary Nolan), the best friend of his own wife Kathryn (Ruth Chatterton).
15 August 1930
A lawyer, left by his wife, gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after.
16 November 1925
A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.
14 December 1924
Inez Laranotta is an actress who is notorious for her vamp roles and for the wild parties she attends.
05 August 1922
Juan is the son of a poor widow in Seville. Against his mother's wishes he pursues a career as toreador.
18 January 1930
Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act.
16 May 2016
The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years.
21 March 1931
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.
06 April 1929
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue her.
22 April 1930
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, cres
07 October 1923
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
06 December 1926
An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional merchant ship, The Esther, who fall afoul of the same pirates and thus become involved with the Constitution's mission.
09 March 1933
A romance develops between a happily married middle-aged British politician and an adventurous young aviatrix.
08 October 1937
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
15 March 1923
Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and Indian attack.
14 March 1930
A ne'er-do-well husband, after years of abusing his wife, disappears with their son, and winds up selling him to a wealthy family.
30 August 1940
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque.
01 February 1934
Young Parisian Nana wards off of a boozed-up military officer at a local restaurant, and fellow diner Gaston Greiner is so impressed with her pluck that he decides to make her a performer at his musical theater.
12 December 1931
Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York.
06 December 1927
A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage.
24 November 1928
Nancy Carroll stars in Manhattan Cocktail as Babs, a college coed who dreams of becoming a famous actress.
25 September 1936
Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult her relationship with domestic service and family members.
29 July 1943
Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover.
27 July 1927
A chorus girl falls in love with a budding composer.
10 June 1932
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
01 November 1925
Directed by William A. Wellman. With Dorothy Revier, Forrest Stanley, Tom Ricketts, Ethel Wales.
27 December 1924
After robbing a small suburban bank, a gang of outlaws led by Bill Kilgore hides out in the neighboring town of Red Rock.
27 September 1926
Despite the fact that he has a beautiful wife who loves him and a good home, gold-digger Lillian Loring discovers that Ralph Hedman is a pushover for her winsome wiles and ways.
28 December 1924
Following the robbery of the Inspiration Gold Mine, Circus Lacey drifts into the border town of Esmeralda, where he saves Ethel Slocum from the unwanted advances of Red Lucas, a notorious gunman.
08 May 1943
Short documentary film on achievements of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC).
07 July 1944
Dramatised recruitment film for the Women's Army Corps, formerly the WAAC.
