Happy Birthday, Dorothy Arzner!

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ESOL

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Adults
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The pioneering female director, born on this day in 1897, helmed Merrily We Go to Hell (1932-84 min.), in which drunken newspaperman Jerry Corbett (Fredric March) is rescued from his alcoholic haze by heiress Joan Prentice (Sylvia Sidney), who encourages him to write a play. But will Jerry manage to stay sober? Edwin Justus Mayer scriped, from Cleo Lucus' novel.