In Fiction
R.M. Vaughan's 2000 play, Camera, Woman depicts the last day of Dorothy Arzner's career. According to the play, Harry Cohn fired her over a kiss scene between Merle Oberon and fictitious actor Rose Lindstrom (in fact the name of a character played by Isobel Elsom in Arzner's last film, First Comes Courage, in which Oberon starred) in a never completed final film. It also depicted Arzner and Oberon as lovers, and portrayed Arzner as a "typical" director who wants to "schtup" her leading lady. The play is told in a prologue, four acts, and an epilogue in the form of a post-show interview that contains actual quotations from Arzner. The implication is that First Comes Courage, while never actually named in the film, was taken out of Arzner's hands and men added to the picture (the play depicts the film, which also starred Brian Aherne, Carl Esmond, and Fritz Leiber, Sr., being made as a war film with no men) against her wishes.
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