Psyched to be returning to Hollywood to introduce my favorite Ursula Parrott adaptation, "Next Time We Love" (1936), with #JimmyStewart + #MargaretSullavan @tcmtv.bsky.social TCM Film Festival on May 1st. It's a gorgeous Universal Archives #35mm print, too! ❤️
#ursulaparrott #hollywoodhistory #35mm
Happy Birthday to best-selling Jazz Age author Ursula Parrott on what would have been her 127th birthday, although I have no doubt that she would have shaved at least 3-5 years off!!!! 😇
Enjoy the only known moving image footage of Ursula!
#ursulaparrott #bestseller #jazzage #exwife
Tomorrow Monday March 23 at 3pm EST @themorbidzoo.bsky.social will be giving an ITRL talk @ncstate.bsky.social in Caldwell G107 about her "The Morbid Zoo" #videoessay YouTube Channel and how she started it when she was an MA student here! If you are remote, you can livestream it 😎 bit.ly/4sKDwo5
Research report from special collections @uclalibrary.bsky.social where I learned that Dorothy Arzner was paid $30k (to Katharine Hepburn’s $15k) for directing “Christopher Strong” in 1932. That’s some serious Depression Era $$$.
#dorothyarzner #hollywoodhistory #katharinehepburn
As perhaps is befitting and unsurprising, this secret compartment held letters and not a gun!
Dorothy Arzner research pilgrimage report #2: I got to sit at the desk she used to write at in her Hollywood Hills home, which she shared with her partner, the choreographer Marion Morgan. It had a secret compartment. More to come!
#dorothyarzner #hollywoodhistory #marionmorgan
Dorothy Arzner research pilgrimage report #1: I got to hold her viewfinder in my very own hands, and of course look through it!
#dorothyarzner #hollywoodhistory #biography #hollywood
I'm so sorry to hear about the passing of Christa Fuller, who was so generous with me when I was researching + writing my book about her husband, filmmaker #SamFuller. Christa was outspoken, funny, a great hostess, and a ferocious tender of Sam's legacy.
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Revisiting a past publication in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social about women "camera crankers" working in cinema's first decades. If it's new to you, enjoy! lareviewofbooks.org/article/ligh...
#womenmakemovies #cinematography #cinematographers #womenfilmpioneers #filmhistory
If you live in #NorthCarolina, you can catch a new take on #UrsulaParrott on Jan 18th at 4pm at St. Matthew's Church in Hillsborough. It's my first return to the stage since I last stepped off as Laurie in Oklahoma in 6th Grade. 😅
Everything you've ever wanted to know about "The Divorcee" (1930) starring Norma Shearer in her Academy Award-winning role but have been afraid to ask 🥰, on the new episode of the "Front Row Classics" #podcast: linktr.ee/FrontRowClas...
#normashearer #thedivorcee #exwife #ursulaparrott
I loathe the way #AI is creeping into research tools with misinformation. This #ancestry detail has #DorothyArzner marrying Rosalind Russell in 1930, living in #Hollywood FL, with two kids, Ruth Chatterton and Frederic March. It would be funny if it wasn't so awful. 😣
Grateful to Indy Weekly for the nice write-up of "In Search of Thoreau's Flowers," currently on view at the Gregg Museum of Art and Design at NC State. If you are in #Raleigh between now and the end of January 2026, come see the show!
#art #climate #interactivemedia #thoreau #walden
Perhaps in the mood for a story about flowers and literature and an interdisciplinary collaboration in the arts, sciences, and humanities @ncstate.bsky.social?
#thoreau #flowers #art #flowerart #pressedflowers #flowerpower
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Nice catch!
The new French translation of Ursula Parrott’s “Ex-Wife” that just got delivered is très belle!
#ursulaparrrott #exwife
Talked about #UrsulaParrott in Hollywood, #DorothyArzner, my favorite childhood movies and stars, teaching film studies @ncstate.bsky.social, and much more on episode #101 (like the freeway) of "From Beneath the Hollywood Sign" #podcast! Stream it at bit.ly/4mMCLHo
If u r in the triangle, stop by the Gregg Museum to see the “Plants in Art” exhibit. I collab’d w/Robin Vuchnich on a botanical portrait of their pollinator garden, a little respite from so many things right now. They have a drawing table set up for botanical art therapy too!
🚨 Early Bird Pricing ENDS tomorrow July 31 – Bastard Film Encounter 5.0 Awaits 🎬
Oct 8–11, 2025 | Columbia, SC
Bold films, unfiltered stories, no pretension. Just one unforgettable encounter with cinema’s wild side.
👉 Grab Your Early Bird Tickets Now
bastardfilmencounter.com/bfe-5-regist...
THE FUR COAT CLUB and THE CASE OF THE ELEVATOR DUCK — both directed by Joan Micklin Silver — are also online thanks to Skip Elsheimer of @avgeeks.bsky.social!
@marshagordon.bsky.social wrote about them both for Salon a few years ago! Link to her essay ⬇️
www.salon.com/2021/03/13/j...
Being on the @infinite-women.com podcast, which reminds us that "well-behaved women rarely make history," was a bright spot in the midst of a dismal time. Thanks for letting me talk about #UrsulaParrott from yet another angle! bit.ly/4nZROik
#podcast #exwife #divorcee #women
This week on the podcast, @marshagordon.bsky.social , Director of Film Studies at North Carolina State University, tells us about the brilliant writer at the heart of her book Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott.
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Feel like nominating a film to the Library of Congress National Film Registry today? May I suggest The Divorcee (1930), starring Norma Shearer in her only @academyawards.bsky.social winning role? It just takes a minute + anyone can nominate. The form is here: bit.ly/4kSEutG
#divorcee #normashearer
I thoroughly enjoyed talking abt F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"--espec. the female characters, Gatsby as a romance novel, and as it relates to Ursula Parrott's "Ex-Wife"--on this just-dropped podcast episode.
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#gatsby #fitzgerald #ursulaparrott #1920s
When I started researching my #DorothyArzner biography, I didn’t realize just how prominent her partner #MarionMorgan was. They really were a #Hollywood power couple. I know so much more now because of the safekeeping done by #archives and #publiclibraries.
#nypl #choreography
#dance
Marion Morgan also got the first Pierce-Arrow coupe in CA. She and Dorothy Arzner both loved having fabulous cars…
#dorothyarzner #marionmorgan #piercearrow #nypl
Grateful to #newyorkpubliclibrary for the treasure trove in their Marion Morgan papers. MM was Dorothy Arzner’s life partner as well as artistic collaborator, and she had a significant and fascinating career as a Hollywood choreographer. #dorothyarzner #marionmorgan #nypl
When I started researching my #DorothyArzner biography, I didn’t realize just how prominent her partner #MarionMorgan was. They really were a #Hollywood power couple. I know so much more now because of the safekeeping done by #archives and #publiclibraries.
#nypl #choreography
#dance
Marion Morgan also got the first Pierce-Arrow coupe in CA. She and Dorothy Arzner both loved having fabulous cars…
#dorothyarzner #marionmorgan #piercearrow #nypl
Grateful to #newyorkpubliclibrary for the treasure trove in their Marion Morgan papers. MM was Dorothy Arzner’s life partner as well as artistic collaborator, and she had a significant and fascinating career as a Hollywood choreographer. #dorothyarzner #marionmorgan #nypl
