Dorothy Arzner s Working Girls Shows Depression Hard-Knocks from the Female Perspective
Dorothy Arzner s 1931 film Working Girls shows MEN may do the bossing but the girls make their own plans for them!
Paramount Pictures
Beyond the Classics is a recurring column in which Emily Kubincanek highlights lesser-known old movies and examines what makes them memorable. In this installment, she uncovers Dorothy Arzner’s hard-to-find 1931 pre-Code film ‘Working Girls.’
For decades in the studio era of Hollywood, the most powerful men tried to convince women they weren’t fit to direct movies. Dorothy Arzner was the exception, as she directed some of the largest stars and delivered magnificent movies of all kinds. Arzner recently had a retrospective on