#dorothy hall

[marypickfords]

Working Girls (Dorothy Arzner, 1931)

[necronomi-kun]

“Old Magic Tales” by Dorothy Hall, illustrated by Sheilah Beckett

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Judith Wood and Dorothy Hall for Dorothy Arzner‘s WORKING GIRLS (1931)

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judith wood and dorothy hall in working girls (dorothy arzner, 1931)

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Working Girls

Off-screen, Dorothy Arzner’s WORKING GIRLS (1931, Criterion Channel) has some strong queer credentials, what with a script by Zoe Akins, leading man Charles “Buddy” Rogers (that’s Mr. Mary Pickford to you), editor Jane Loring and Arzner calling the shots for all of them. The film itself focuses on heterosexual relationships, though it seems to suggest they’re not as satisfying as the friendships women develop independent of men.

Set largely in a hotel for young working women, the film opens with the manager pulling down the shades in her office, creating the sense that this is a space away from the temptations of Depression America. That shield won’t last. As soon as she’s gone, the tenants open the shades and the windows in the living room so they can listen to the music from a club next door. The film focuses on the newest tenants (Judith Wood and Dorothy Hall), small town sisters whose peroxided hair belies their innocence about New York life. Before long the two have jobs and beaux. Wood is smart enough to know she’s only dating saxophone player Stu Erwin for what his salary can bring her, while Hall mistakenly falls for society lawyer Rogers, thinking he’d be willing to cross class barriers to marry her. She even turns down a proposal from the kindly scientist (Paul Lukas) for whom she works because she expects her romance with Rogers to go somewhere.

Arzner directs with her usual grace and style. There’s a lovely tracking shot following Wood and Hall up the stairs to their room when they both come home from late-night dates, clever framing that uses architecture to place the women within their world and one funny montage when Wood, denied a modeling job when the couturier deems her lacking in style, upgrades her wardrobe. Throughout there’s an emphasis on the realities women face in the working world. Clothes are just one of the commodities required to improve a woman’s life. Her body, too, may be on the line, and she has to be smart to keep it from going to the wrong man. The only thing they can count on is each other. When Rogers announces his engagement to a woman of his own class, the other tenants try to keep the news from Hall. Wood consistently stands up for her sister, and even the lowliest employee at the hotel (the funny and appealing Dorothy Stickney) bends the rules to help the girls out when they need it.

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Halle Berry in 1999 Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

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Blessed nendoroid that gets drunk and calls you honey

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The robot girl of the day is Dorothy Haze from VA-11 Hall-A!

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May 19, 1536 - Anne Boleyn is Beheaded

"Good Christian people, I have come here to die. For according to the law, and by the law, I am judged to die and therefore, I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak of that whereof I am accused and condemned to die. But I pray God save the King and send him long to reign over you, for a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never. And to me he was ever a good, a gentle, and sovereign lord. And if any person will meddle of my cause, I require them to judge the best. And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me. O Lord, have mercy on me. To God, I commend my soul.' And then she knelt down, saying, 'To Christ I commend my soul, Jesu receive my soul', divers times, till that her head was stricken off with the sword.” - Anne's execution, as reported in Hall's Chronicle (1548)

""On a scaffold made there for the said execution, the said Queen Anne said thus: 'Masters, I here humbly submit me to the law, as the law hath judged me. And as for mine offenses, I here accuse no man; God knoweth them. I remit them to God, beseeching him to have mercy on my soul. And I beseech Jesu, save my sovereign and master, the King - the most godly, noble, and gentle prince that is, and long to reign over you.' Which words were spoken with a goodly smiling countenance. And this done, she knelt down on her knees and said: "To Jesu Christ, I commend my soul'. And suddenly, the hangman smote off her head at a stroke with a sword." - Anne's execution, as reported in Wriothesley's Chronicle (1559)

"And so she went to the place of her ordeal

To obey the will of justice,

Still showing a serene countenance,

As if she did not grieve for this world in any way;

For her coloring and face were such

That never before did she seem so beautiful ...

There was no one who does not have firm hope

That her spirit will not be in agony,

Given her great faith and wise patience,

Which rose above womanly courage.

Everyone, on the basis of her mightily steady end,

Judges her life to have been prudent

And believes they have committed a great offense

In having thought so ill of her." - Lancelot de Carle's The Story of the Fall of Anne Boleyn (1536, trans. Joann Dellaneva)

"Anne, the late Queen, suffered with sword this day within the Tower upon a new scaffold and died boldly. Jesu take them [i.e. Anne and the five men] to His mercy if it be His will." - John Husee to Lord Lisle, May 19, 1536

[marypickfords]

Working Girls (Dorothy Arzner, 1931)

[necronomi-kun]

“Animal Parade” by Dorothy Hall, illustrated by Tom Sinnickson

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some ponies I made recently :3

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Dorothy is cute

VA-11 Hall-A is great man

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Dorothy!! I love this gal so much, she still infests my whole Steam profile.

Original post: 23/07/23