Anybody’s Woman

Arzner offers a shrewd portrait of gendered class dynamics with this quintessentially pre-Code film.

  • Director

    Dorothy Arzner

  • With

    Ruth Chatterton, Clive Brook, Paul Lukas, Huntley Gordon

  • USA 1930. 82min

  • 35mm

Arzner always insisted on the importance of the screenwriter. Her collaborations with Zoe Akins demonstrated the value and potency of the relationship between director and writer. Anybody’s Woman tells the story of broken-hearted lawyer Neil and cynical burlesque performer Pansy, who drunkenly marry and decide to make their mismatched marriage work. This quintessentially pre-Code film marked the second collaboration for the director, writer and star.

35mm preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

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