# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dorothy-arzner
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:11:32.301Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dorothy-arzner"
name: "Dorothy Arzner"
slug: "dorothy-arzner"
description: "Dorothy Emma Arzner was an American film director whose career in Hollywood spanned from the silent era of the 1920s into the early 1940s. With the exception of long-time silent film director Lois Weber, Arzner was the only female director working in Hollywood from 1927 until her retirement from feature directing in 1943. She was one of a very few women able to establish a successful and long career in Hollywood as a film director until the 1970s. Arzner made a total of twenty films between 1927 and 1943 and launched the careers of a number of Hollywood actresses, including Katharine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell, and Lucille Ball. Arzner was the first woman to join the Directors Guild of America and the first woman to direct a sound film."
tagline: "American film director and film editor (1897–1979)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dorothy_Arzner.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1897-01-03"
deathDate: "1979-10-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           21.740976
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump