Apologies for cross-posting
Hello, everyone, and I hope folks on this list are doing well during these unsettled times. I am writing to you today in the hope that you can help me find an item for a book on which I'm working. Please read on...
I recently signed a contract with the University Press of Mississippi to edit a book on Dorothy Arzner for UPM's "Conversations with Filmmakers" series. As you probably know, Arzner was one of the exceedingly few women to direct films in Hollywood during the 1930s and early 1940s. Dorothy Arzner: Interviews will consist primarily of reprinted interviews with her from the 1920s through the 1970s, and I have already discovered literally dozens of Arzner interviews that I plan to use. However, there's one that continues to elude me. Here's where I hope you can help.
The interview in question is "Get Me Dorothy Arzner!" by Adela Rogers St. Johns, published in the December 1933 issue of Silver Screen magazine. It's the interview in which Arzner is famously quoted as saying, "When I went to work in a studio, I took my pride and made a nice little ball of it and threw it right out the window."
The Interlibrary Loan staff of my university have been diligently searching for this interview for the past few weeks but have come up empty. Our last hope had been the New York Public Library, which recently returned to fulfilling ILL requests. The NYPL actually has the issue, but they reported that this particular article had been torn out, alas. I also searched the Silver Screen holdings of the Media History Digital Library at http://mediahistoryproject.org/. Though the MHDL has a Silver Screen file labeled "November 1933-April 1934," the December 1933 issue is missing.
Can you help? Is there any chance that you have a copy of this interview? If not, do you know who might? A scan of the entire interview, which I believe appears on pp. 22-24 and 73 of the December 1933 issue, would be ideal. You would earn my eternal gratitude if you could send me a scan, and I'd be delighted to acknowledge your help in the book. Importantly, you'd also be contributing to the preservation of a rare female director's "voice" from Hollywood's Golden Age. Thanks in advance.
best wishes,
Marty Norden
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Martin F. Norden
Professor, Department of Communication
N320 Integrative Learning Center
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003 USA
Editor, Lois Weber: Interviews
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/L/Lois-Weber
Co-Editor, Pop Culture Matters
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/pop-culture-matters
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