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Working Girls Sarah and Son

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Dec 18, 2003 7:00 PM
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Arzner again battled studio censors over the treatment of premarital sex and pregnancy in Working Girls and Sarah and Son. Working Girls was cited by Ohio State professor and Arzner scholar Judith Mayne as "perhaps the most daring and innovative film Arzner ever made." It follows the exploits of two small-town Indiana sisters who travel to New York to seek their fortune. (1931; 80 mins.)

Actress Ruth Chatterton received a Best Actress nomination for her lead in Sarah and Son, where she plays a woman trying to reclaim the son taken from her in his infancy (1930; 86 mins.)

Season Support

Support for the 2003-04 film/video season provided by the Rohauer Collection Foundation and the Corporate Annual Fund of the Wexner Center Foundation.

Contemporary films, international films, and visiting filmmakers presentations presented with support from the Ohio Arts Council.

Event Support

Directed by Dorothy Arzner was conceived by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. With the cooperation of Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios the archive has preserved Arzner's six extant films for Paramount from nitrate projection prints or acetate positives. None of the original negatives has survived. Preservation of the films was made possible with generous support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Myra Reinhard Family Foundation, and Jodie Foster.

Promotional Support

Promotional support for the Wexner Center's presentation of this series provided by Outlook News.
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Past

Working Girls Sarah and Son

Dec 18, 2003 7:00 PM EST
$6 students (tickets required)
$4 members
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