List of the best Dorothy Arzner movies: Manhattan Cocktail(1928), Merrily We Go to Hell(1932), First Comes Courage(1943), Working Girls(1931), Blood and Sand(1922), The Wild Party(1929), Christopher Strong(1933), The Bride Wore Red(1937), Paramount on Parade(1930), Sarah and Son(1930), Dance, Girl, Dance(1940) ... ...
Drama
USA
1928
72 Minutes
Director
Nancy Carroll Richard Arlen Danny O'Shea Paul Lukas Lilyan Tashman Edwina Booth
Babs and Bob leave their small-town life after graduating from college and go to New York in an effort to make the Broadway big time. Mrs. Renov, the wife of a theatrical producer, develops... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1932
78 Minutes
Director
Sylvia Sidney Fredric March Adrianne Allen
A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
War
USA
1943
88 Minutes
Director
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Nicole Larsen is detested by her countrymen because they suspect she is collaborating with the occupying Germans. In reality she is working for the Norwegian underground, risking her life passing secrets to the resistance fighters.
Drama
USA
1931
77 Minutes
Director
Judith Wood Dorothy Hall Paul Lukas Stuart Erwin Frances Dee Mary Forbes Frances Moffett Claire Dodd Dorothy Stickney Alberta Vaughn
Two sisters, May, older, naive, and June, younger and worldly, arrive in New York straight from the country and settle down in a boarding house. Their search for jobs leads them to find beaus and romantic trouble.
Drama
USA
1922
80 Minutes
Rudolph Valentino Dorothy Arzner Lila Lee Nita Naldi George Field Walter Long Rose Rosanova Leo White Charles Belcher Jack Winn Rosita Marstini
A toreador's familial and social life is threatened when he has an affair.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1929
77 Minutes
Director
Clara Bow Fredric March Marceline Day Shirley O'Hara Adrienne Dore Joyce Compton Jack Oakie Jack Luden Phillips Holmes Virginia Thomas Jean Lorraine
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 ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1933
77 Minutes
Director
Katharine Hepburn Colin Clive Billie Burke Helen Chandler Ralph Forbes Jack LaRue Irene Browne Gwendolyn Logan Desmond Roberts Agostino Borgato Margaret Lindsay
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A famous female flier and a member of Parliament drift into a potentially disastrous affair.
Drama
USA
1937
103 Minutes
Director
Joan Crawford Franchot Tone Robert Young Billie Burke Reginald Owen Lynne Carver George Zucco Mary Philips Paul Porcasi Dickie Moore Frank Puglia
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A lounge singer is sent by a count to pose as a wealthy socialite.
Musical
USA
1930
77 Minutes
Edwin H. Knopf Richard Arlen Ernst Lubitsch Dorothy Arzner Edmund Goulding Victor Schertzinger Jean Arthur
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 ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1930
86 Minutes
Director
Ruth Chatterton Fredric March Fuller Mellish Jr. Gilbert Emery Doris Lloyd William Stack
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--... See full summary »
Musical
1940
90 Minutes
Director
Maureen O'Hara Louis Hayward Lucille Ball Virginia Field Ralph Bellamy Maria Ouspenskaya Mary Carlisle Katharine Alexander Edward Brophy Walter Abel Harold Huber
A burlesque queen (Lucille Ball) competes with an aspiring ballerina (Maureen O'Hara) for a divorced playboy (Louis Hayward).