Dance, Girl, Dance

“Now poking out at me here is Dance, Girl, Dance by Dorothy Arzner. That's an amazing film to see and an early female director who was doing really, really, really interesting things in a kind of modest but celebratory way.”

“Okay, well, here we go to Miss Arzner. And this particular film is Dance, Girl, Dance. And Miss Arzner was my directing teacher at UCLA. I learned so much from her, but one of the things that I repeated to my children, which is really important, she said that always sit in the same place next to the camera... Because you’re right there and you can not only see the cast very well but you can look up and you can see the camera operator... More important than anything, you sit there because the...”

“Dance, Girl, Dance. Dorothy Arzner, she was one of the… or maybe the only female filmmaker making movies in the studio system in the ’30s and ’40s. And also this movie has a scene-stealing Lucille Ball.”