Remembering legendary film editor Margaret Booth on her birthday #botd
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William Reynolds (deceased)
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Gay
DOB: 14 June 1910
RIP: 16 July 1997
Ethnicity: White - American
Occupation: Film editor
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(via Overlooked No More: Dorothy Spencer, Film Editor Sought Out by Big Directors - The New York Times)
In a five-decade career, she worked as an editor on more than 70 movies and received four Academy Award nominations across a range of genres: the Oscar-winning 1939 western “Stagecoach”; the espionage thriller “Decision Before Dawn” (1951); the costume epic “Cleopatra” (1963); and the disaster movie “Earthquake” (1974). She was sought out by directors like Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and Joseph L. Mankiewicz for her deft touch, both with fight scenes and with subtle character moments...
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Hollywood’s film director Dorothy Arzner: the first, the first, the first
the only woman director during the "Golden Age" of Hollywood's studio system
the only woman filmmaker directing top level studio pictures
the first woman in Hollywood who directed a sound film, Paramount’s first talking movie The Wild Party
the first female member of the Directors Guild of America
In the golden age of Hollywood, Dorothy Arzner was the only woman in a male-dominated space of film directoring. Started as an editor and writer Dorothy Arzner became a successful Hollywood director.
With the ambition to become a doctor, she went abroad during World War I to work in the ambulance corp. When she returned, however, she decided she wanted to become a film director.
Dorothy Arzner directed around 20 films over the course of her 24 years in film industry. She taught Francis Ford Coppola and with directing her feature films she launched the careers of actresses Clara Bow, Katherine Hepburn and Lucille Ball.
Dorothy Arzner was a shorthaired, boyish director, preferred to wear mostly pants. The way the mother goddess of women’s film-making was described by those who knew her:
"Sometimes, during the direction of a scene, she speaks so softly that it is necessary for her assistant to echo her orders in his chesty baritone. For the most part, she dresses in sport clothes and flat heels and eye-shading felt hats. There is something about her that commands immediate attention—and respect. It is an open secret on the Paramount lot that Miss Arzner's company is the best disciplined in the studio—and that it is self-disciplined."
"The only woman director in the 'movies' pondered gravely before answering. Shc sat quietly— a slight, almost frail figure. Black, short hair, with here and there a thread of gray, was brushed smoothly back from her wide, thoughtful forehead, and blue eyes under heavy brows looked at one steadily and directly. The face mobile and sensitive, harbored a strength and power for some reason rather surprising."
"Hers is a very satisfying face, brilliantly alive; her skin is clear and healthy, without aid of cosmetics; her eyes arc a deep, violet-blue, shadowed with long lashes, and I should hate to be the one to double-cross or try to fool those eyes. . she wears a severely tailored tweed suit, with mannish shirt and tie, when working. She orders her shirts by the dozen from a New York firm and says she feels this is the only sort of costume suited to her job."
"The case of Dorothy Arzner, Hollywood's lone woman director, illustrates two tenets of present-day industry. The first is that an intelligent woman can do pretty much any kind of work she sets her mind on doing, and the second is that she didn’t need to sacrifice her femininity in doing it. ... Hollywood's maverick woman megaphone wielder has dark brown hair brushed back from a high forehead in a short bob, and gray-blue eyes. She wears tailored suits on the set and all her clothes, tailored or evening, are in combinations of black and white or gray ..."
Can’t believe I never heard of Dorothy Arzner before.
source: Directed by Dorothy Arzner (Women Artists in Film) | Mayne, Judith. 1994, https://www.womeninblog.com/
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Getting Snacks (A Short Film)
A short film I directed back at college.
This will by my first film release by Monarch Films!
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