Direction: Dorothy Arzner
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Dorothy Arzner. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 18
Merrily We Go to Hell
1932 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner
Cast Sylvia Sidney · Fredric March · Adrianne Allen · Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Synopsis An aspiring playwright (Frederic March) with a drinking problem marries an heiress (Sylvia Sidney) whose father (George Irving) is skeptical of March’s intentions. When March carries on an affair with a former flame (Adrianne Allen), Sidney despairs, but resolves to...
6.9
131 votes
6.9
131 votes
Dance, Girl, Dance
1940 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner
Cast Maureen O'Hara · Louis Hayward · Lucille Ball · Virginia Field
6.4
197 votes
6.4
197 votes
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1937 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Richard Boleslawski · Dorothy Arzner · George Fitzmaurice
Cast Joan Crawford · William Powell · Robert Montgomery · Frank Morgan
Synopsis There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. With her rich husband, deceased, rich old Lord Kelton and playboy Lord Arthur Dilling are both very interested in the mysterious...
6.2
34 votes
6.2
34 votes
The Bride Wore Red
1937 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner
Cast Joan Crawford · Franchot Tone · Robert Young · Billie Burke
Synopsis Count Armalia believes that the luck of birth is all that separates the rich from the poor. To test his theory, he sends Anni, a singer in a dive, to a ritzy resort for two weeks. With fancy new clothes...
6.2
48 votes
6.2
48 votes
Craig's Wife
1936 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner
Cast Rosalind Russell · John Boles · Billie Burke · Jane Darwell
Synopsis A domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.
6.1
43 votes
6.1
43 votes
Christopher Strong
1933 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner
Cast Katharine Hepburn · Colin Clive · Billie Burke · Helen Chandler
Synopsis At a party for Bright Young Things, a "treasure hunt" for attractive yet virtuous people nets Sir Christopher Strong, M.P., and Lady Cynthia Darrington, dashing aviatrix. Their acquaintance is innocent at first; but after he sees her in a spectacular...
6.1
223 votes
6.1
223 votes
The Wild Party
1929 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner
Cast Clara Bow · Fredric March · Marceline Day · Shirley O'Hara
Synopsis 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. Gossip linking the...
6.0
21 votes
6.0
21 votes
Nana
1934 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner · George Fitzmaurice
Cast Anna Sten · Lionel Atwill · Richard Bennett · Mae Clarke
5.6
26 votes
5.6
26 votes
Sarah and Son
1930 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner
Cast Ruth Chatterton · Fredric March · Fuller Mellish Jr. · Gilbert Emery
Synopsis 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. Years later, the wife--now a world-famous opera singer--finally has enough time and money to begin a search for...
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Fashions for Women
1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner
Cast Esther Ralston · Raymond Hatton · Einar Hanson · Edward Martindel
Synopsis Celeste de Givray is renowned throughout Europe as the most beautiful and best-dressed model in all Paris. Her press agent DuPont concocts an attention-getting publicity scheme by having Celeste undergo cosmetic surgery, then unveiling her “new” face at a posh...
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Get Your Man
1927 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner
Cast Clara Bow · Charles 'Buddy' Rogers · Josef Swickard · Josephine Dunn
Synopsis A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man.
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Working Girls
1931 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner
Cast Judith Wood · Dorothy Hall · Claire Dodd · Frances Dee
Synopsis Two sisters have arrived in New York straight from the country and settle down in one of those boarding houses for single women. May, the older, is a bit naive, while June, the younger, is much more worldly and world-wise....
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Manhattan Cocktail
1928 · Movie · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner
Cast Nancy Carroll · Richard Arlen · Danny O'Shea · Paul Lukas
Synopsis Manhattan Cocktail is a lost film except for a one-minute montage sequence, "Skyline Dance". It was a part-talkie film.
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First Comes Courage
1943 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner
Cast Merle Oberon · Brian Aherne · Carl Esmond · Isobel Elsom
Synopsis Nicole Larsen (Merle Oberon) is a member of the Norwegian resistance in a small town, about to be married to the Nazi commandant (Carl Esmond). When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him...
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Anybody's Woman
1930 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner
Cast Ruth Chatterton · Clive Brook · Paul Lukas · Huntley Gordon
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Honor Among Lovers
1931 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner
Cast Claudette Colbert · Fredric March · Monroe Owsley · Charles Ruggles
Synopsis Fredric March, a businessman, is in love with his secretary (Claudette Colbert) but she deserts him for another man; when she realizes her mistake, she goes back to March. Ginger Rogers is Colbert's girlfriend who is love with Charles Ruggles.
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Behind the Make-Up
1930 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Robert Milton · Dorothy Arzner · Henry Hathaway · Rollo Lloyd
Cast Hal Skelly · William Powell · Fay Wray · Kay Francis
Synopsis Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his appreciation by stealing the clown's act and his girlfriend, whom he marries.
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Paramount on Parade
1930 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner · Otto Brower · Edmund Goulding · Victor Heerman
Cast Maurice Chevalier · Richard Arlen · Jean Arthur · George Bancroft
Synopsis A musical revue that basically has Paramount stars and contract-players doing things some had never done on screen, and wouldn't again; such as Ruth Chatteron , in a French-café setting singing "My Marine" (written by Richard A. Whiting and Raymond...
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