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Get your Man (INTA)
Location
Salle de projection principale
Date
May 14th, 2021
Duration
63 min
Cycle
Silent films with music

Keeping silent cinema alive, showing the films of the era at the right speed and in their original image format, and having a pianist accompany them with respect, is all part of the normal work of a film library. But at a time when electronics is offering filmmakers new ways of making their images, it is even more relevant to periodically recall how eloquent were the images of the so-called silent era of film history. Silent cinema is therefore an essential component of the Cinémathèque's programming. And it is not a bad thing to remember that these are the works and filmmakers who made modern cinema possible, not to mention that it is always pleasant to be able to return for a few hours to the era of images that speak.

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Get Your Man
Directed by
Dorothy Arzner
Language
Silent (INTA)
Actors
Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Josef Swickard
Origins
USA
Year
1927
Duration
63 min
Genre
Silent
Format
35 mm
Synopsis

A lively vaudeville adapted from a play by French playwright Louis Verneuil. A delightful variation on Franco-American love and hate that highlights the directing talent of a pioneering female filmmaker, Dorothy Arzner.

Get Your Man

Dorothy Arzner

Dorothy Emma Arzner (January 3, 1897 – October 1, 1979) was an American film director whose career in Hollywood spanned from the silent era of the 1920s into the early 1940s. From 1927 until her retirement from feature directing in 1943, Arzner was the only female director working in Hollywood. Additionally, 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. Additionally, Arzner was the first woman to join the Directors Guild of America and the first woman to direct a sound film.

(Wikipedia)