As well as being the first female Hollywood director, Weber was also the first woman to found her own studio, becoming an ...

With Taylor Swift singing songs about Clara Bow, audiences have turned their attention to the first days of cinema. But even ...

Such a world was even more challenging for women to break into than the nascent film industry that Guy-Blaché conquered, which made Dorothy Arzner an outlier for decades. Born in San Francisco in 1897 ...

The Skeleton Dance,” directed by Walt Disney. ・“The Wild Party,” directed by Dorothy Arzner. This film features Clara Bow’s first speaking role. ・“Spite Marriage,” directed by ...

Women had far more influence in the silent era than at any other point in cinema history, with people like Mabel Normand, Alice Guy-Blaché, and Dorothy Arzner directing at the time. Suspense comes ...

Dorothy Porter in her captain’s hat in 1963. For both Mary and me, Dod was our champion. Like her own hero, Emily Brontë, who was nicknamed “The Major” by her family, Dod seemed brave and ...

Dorothy, 87, passed peacefully in her sleep on December 27, 2024 in Evergreen, Colorado at the home of her daughter and in the loving care of family. Dorothy was born February 6,1937 to Chuchie ...