Dorothy Arzner: Dorothy Arzner. Director: Christopher Strong. Dorothy Arzner, the only female director during the "Golden Age" of Hollywood's studio system--from the 1920s to the early 1940s and the female director with the largest oeuvre in Hollywood to this day--was born January 3, 1897 (some sources put the year as 1900), in San Francisco, California, to a German-American father and a Scottish mother. Raised in Los Angeles, her parents ran a café...
