I'm super stressed abt #AI in the classroom in the fall + abt the fact that my state, #NorthCarolina, still doesn't have a budget for the fiscal year that ends in 2 weeks 😵‍💫, BUT at least the book chapter I'm now writing is about Trouble in Paradise. Ernst #Lubitsch is literally saving my soul.

I loved touring the National Film Archive of Japan a few weeks ago. Getting to see Japanese print media about American stars like #BetteDavis and #ClaraBow was super cool, as was their open-to-the-public exhibition about Japanese film history. Highly recommend a stop to anyone traveling to Tokyo!

USC film archivist Dino Everett + I just dropped a new entry on the short-lived, three-column 22mm film format in The Film Atlas. If you are a photochemical film fan, this is a doozy! www.filmatlas.com/entry/54 #filmhistory #22mm #smallgauge #edison

Psyched to be returning to Hollywood to introduce my favorite Ursula Parrott adaptation, "Next Time We Love" (1936), with #JimmyStewart + #MargaretSullavan @tcmtv.bsky.social TCM Film Festival on May 1st. It's a gorgeous Universal Archives #35mm print, too! ❤️ #ursulaparrott #hollywoodhistory #35mm

Happy Birthday to best-selling Jazz Age author Ursula Parrott on what would have been her 127th birthday, although I have no doubt that she would have shaved at least 3-5 years off!!!! 😇 Enjoy the only known moving image footage of Ursula! #ursulaparrott #bestseller #jazzage #exwife

Tomorrow Monday March 23 at 3pm EST @themorbidzoo.bsky.social will be giving an ITRL talk @ncstate.bsky.social in Caldwell G107 about her "The Morbid Zoo" #videoessay YouTube Channel and how she started it when she was an MA student here! If you are remote, you can livestream it 😎 bit.ly/4sKDwo5

Research report from special collections @uclalibrary.bsky.social where I learned that Dorothy Arzner was paid $30k (to Katharine Hepburn’s $15k) for directing “Christopher Strong” in 1932. That’s some serious Depression Era $$$. #dorothyarzner #hollywoodhistory #katharinehepburn

Dorothy Arzner research pilgrimage report #2: I got to sit at the desk she used to write at in her Hollywood Hills home, which she shared with her partner, the choreographer Marion Morgan. It had a secret compartment. More to come! #dorothyarzner #hollywoodhistory #marionmorgan

Dorothy Arzner research pilgrimage report #1: I got to hold her viewfinder in my very own hands, and of course look through it! #dorothyarzner #hollywoodhistory #biography #hollywood

If you live in #NorthCarolina, you can catch a new take on #UrsulaParrott on Jan 18th at 4pm at St. Matthew's Church in Hillsborough. It's my first return to the stage since I last stepped off as Laurie in Oklahoma in 6th Grade. 😅

Everything you've ever wanted to know about "The Divorcee" (1930) starring Norma Shearer in her Academy Award-winning role but have been afraid to ask 🥰, on the new episode of the "Front Row Classics" #podcast: linktr.ee/FrontRowClas... #normashearer #thedivorcee #exwife #ursulaparrott

I loathe the way #AI is creeping into research tools with misinformation. This #ancestry detail has #DorothyArzner marrying Rosalind Russell in 1930, living in #Hollywood FL, with two kids, Ruth Chatterton and Frederic March. It would be funny if it wasn't so awful. 😣

The new French translation of Ursula Parrott’s “Ex-Wife” that just got delivered is très belle! #ursulaparrrott #exwife

Talked about #UrsulaParrott in Hollywood, #DorothyArzner, my favorite childhood movies and stars, teaching film studies @ncstate.bsky.social, and much more on episode #101 (like the freeway) of "From Beneath the Hollywood Sign" #podcast! Stream it at bit.ly/4mMCLHo

If u r in the triangle, stop by the Gregg Museum to see the “Plants in Art” exhibit. I collab’d w/Robin Vuchnich on a botanical portrait of their pollinator garden, a little respite from so many things right now. They have a drawing table set up for botanical art therapy too!

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Being on the @infinite-women.com podcast, which reminds us that "well-behaved women rarely make history," was a bright spot in the midst of a dismal time. Thanks for letting me talk about #UrsulaParrott from yet another angle! bit.ly/4nZROik #podcast #exwife #divorcee #women

Feel like nominating a film to the Library of Congress National Film Registry today? May I suggest The Divorcee (1930), starring Norma Shearer in her only @academyawards.bsky.social winning role? It just takes a minute + anyone can nominate. The form is here: bit.ly/4kSEutG #divorcee #normashearer

When I started researching my #DorothyArzner biography, I didn’t realize just how prominent her partner #MarionMorgan was. They really were a #Hollywood power couple. I know so much more now because of the safekeeping done by #archives and #publiclibraries. #nypl #choreography #dance

Marion Morgan also got the first Pierce-Arrow coupe in CA. She and Dorothy Arzner both loved having fabulous cars… #dorothyarzner #marionmorgan #piercearrow #nypl

Grateful to #newyorkpubliclibrary for the treasure trove in their Marion Morgan papers. MM was Dorothy Arzner’s life partner as well as artistic collaborator, and she had a significant and fascinating career as a Hollywood choreographer. #dorothyarzner #marionmorgan #nypl

Super cool resource drop alert 4 #film lovers: the FilmAtlas, "an international visual guide to every motion picture film format, soundtrack and color process ever invented"! I co-authored an entry on #3mm film--the cutest format--w/Dino Everett of USC Film Archives. www.filmatlas.com/entry/210

I love seeing director Dorothy Arzner's face in this lineup of Box Office Champions from 1932. Working on her biography means daily revelations about the way she navigated the Hollywood boys' club. #dorothyarzner #womenmakemovies #hollywoodhistory #director #tcmparty #womendirectors #biography

Researching my #DorothyArzner bio + writing an article 4 a collection on women filmmakers edited by @shelleystamp.bsky.social + it is staggering how many newspapers call Arzner some version of the "first" woman director despite so many successful predecessors. But this is a great pic w/ #IdaLupino!

Spent the morning photographing butterflies, beetles, bees, and more @ncstate.bsky.social Insect Museum. These pollinator images + plant pressings = new collage that will be on display this fall at the Gregg Museum of art. 🦋 🌺

Thanks to the Lost Ladies of Lit #Podcast for re-running our episode about #UrsulaParrott as an encore today! Episode streams here: apple.co/4ddpBQt #bestseller #americanliterature #exwife #divorcee

Starting the day at the packed Egyptian Theater with a new @billmorrison.bsky.social film and Donald Boyle introduction to 35mm nitrate print of Daisy Kenyon. What could be better? TCM Festival rocks! #tcm #tcmff #tcmparty

Counting down to The Divorcee tomorrow morning at the Egyptian on 35mm @tcmtv.bsky.social !!!! #tcmff #tcmparty

Warning: preparing for my @tcmtv.bsky.social Film Festival Intro on Friday at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood I learned that a Chicago theater billed "The Divorcee" as "Restricted to ADULTS ONLY." Consider yourself warned abt this risqué 1930 adaptation of Ursula Parrott's "Daring Novel"! #TCMFF

Pretty cool to get a copy of the brand new Swedish translation of Ursula Parrott’s “Ex-Wife” in the mail! Any #Swedish Blueskyers out there had a chance to read “Ex-Frun” yet? #ursulaparrott #exwife #exfrun #swedish