SOURCE: "Dorothy Arzner Interview," in Cinema, No. 34, 1974, pp. 10-17.

In the following interview, Arzner discusses her career and the people with whom she worked in the film industry.

The following interview was conducted over several months by mail between Wisconsin and California. Questions were posed, answers supplied, then more questions surfaced from the previous answers. Dorothy Arzner personally read over the "final print" and made corrections and additional comments; so, hopefully in the best sense of the term, this ends as an "authorized interview."

Because Ms. Arzner is busily at work completing an ambitious historical novel (based on the early settling of Los Angeles) she found it impossible to detail adequately her film career. Very generously she allowed a personal visit to her California desert home for additional information. The addendum to the interview is based upon conversations during that meeting (with thanks to Joseph McBride for his...