Dorothy Arzner was the first woman in the Director's Guild of America. She was also the Only woman director working within the Hollywood studio system in the late 1920s and throughout most of the 1940s. To be more specific, that's 1927 through 1943, when she retired from making films. I wish I could say that things have improved for gender parity in this industry --- and they have just a bit --- but we're still on the margins for the most part. Arzner also invented the boom mic by attaching a mic to a fishing rod so that her star, Clara Bow, could move around set. Later in the 1960s, she taught at UCLA, and one of her most promising students was Francis Ford Coppola....
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- 6/8/2020
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