Were Dorothy Arzner and James Foley from the same directorial eras?
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James Foley (director)
James Foley (born December 28, 1953) is an American film director.
 His 1986 film "At Close Range" was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival.
 Other films he has directed include "Glengarry Glen Ross", based on the both Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play of the same name by David Mamet (actor Al Pacino received an Academy Award nomination for his performance in the film), and "The Chamber", based on the novel of the same name by best-selling author John Grisham.
Dorothy Arzner
Dorothy Emma Arzner (January 3, 1897 – October 1, 1979) was an American film director whose career in feature films spanned from the silent era of the late 1920s into the early 1940s.
 In fact, Dorothy Arzner was the only female director working in the 1930s in the United States.
 She was one of the very few women who established a name for herself as a director in the American film industry during this time.
Honor Among Lovers
Honor Among Lovers is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Dorothy Arzner.
 The film stars Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Monroe Owsley, Charles Ruggles and Ginger Rogers. Dorothy Hall (actress)
Dorothy Hall (December 3, 1906 – February 2, 1953) was an American film actress in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
 She began her career as an actress on Broadway and transitioned fully into film acting in the late 1920s.
 She had small roles in films such as "The Winning Oar" (1927) and "The Broadway Drifter" (1927) and was later featured in the Vitaphone short "In the Nick of Time" (1929) and "The Laughing Lady" (1929).
 Her final and best known film role was in Dorothy Arzner's "Working Girls" (1931) where she plays Mae Thorpe.
 Dorothy Hall died on February 2, 1953 in New York City. Marion Morgan (choreographer)
Marion Morgan (January 4, 1881, New Jersey – November 10, 1971, Los Angeles, CA) was a choreographer and motion picture screenwriter and the longtime companion of motion picture director Dorothy Arzner.
 Arzner lived for the last 40 years of her life with Morgan. Nana (1934 film)
Nana is a 1934 American Pre-Code film, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, released through United Artists, starring Anna Sten.
 and directed by Dorothy Arzner and George Fitzmaurice. The Man I Love (1929 film)
The Man I Love (1929) is a part-talking sound film from Paramount Pictures produced in parallel silent and sound versions.
 This film survives in a copy sold to television in the 1950s.
 The film stars Richard Arlen.
 Some sources refer to this as Arlen's first sound film, but he co-starred Nancy Carroll in Dorothy Arzner's "Manhattan Cocktail" (1928), another part-talking picture released by Paramount. Pam Cook
Pam Cook (born 6 January 1943, Farnborough, Hampshire, UK) is Professor Emerita in Film at the University of Southampton.
 She was educated at Sir William Perkins's School, Chertsey, Surrey and Birmingham University, where she was taught by Stuart Hall, Richard Hoggart, Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge.
 Along with Laura Mulvey and Claire Johnston, she was a pioneer of 1970s Anglo-American feminist film theory.
 Her collaboration with Claire Johnston on the work of Hollywood film director Dorothy Arzner provoked debate among feminist film scholars over the following decades. First Comes Courage
First Comes Courage is a 1943 American war film, the final film directed by Dorothy Arzner, one of the few female directors in Hollywood at the time.
 The film was based on the 1943 novel "Commandos" by Elliott Arnold, adapted by George Sklar, with a screenplay by Melvin Levy and Lewis Meltzer.
 It stars Merle Oberon and Brian Aherne. Ten Modern Commandments
Ten Modern Commandments was a 1927 American silent romantic comedy-drama film that starred Esther Ralston and was distributed through Paramount Pictures.
 It is based on an original screen story and was directed by Dorothy Arzner.
 The film is now considered lost film.