Interview with Dorothy Arzner

Dorothy Arzner on the set of M-G-M's The Bride Wore Red (1937) with star Joan Crawford. (Courtesy Dorothy Arzner)

It was a revelation when, in the feminist early 1970s, we discovered two Dorothy Arzner films, Christopher Strong (1933) and Dance, Girl, Dance (1940), in the RKO Collection at the State Historical Society on the University of Wisconsin campus. Articles on both films followed, in Cinema (LA) and The Velvet Light Trap. We were thrilled: [...]