Jump, Girls

This film (drama)Also known asDance，is aUSAProducerwomen sex，At1940Released in year 。The dialogue language isEnglish，Current Douban rating7.5(For reference only)。

Although there were some female directors during the silent film era in Hollywood, such as the comedic actress Mabel Normand, as the film industry became increasingly commercialized, men completely dominated the field. Dorothy Azna was the first female director of the early sound film era, directing multiple films between 1927 and 1943, and she was also the first woman to join the American film industry guild. In her first film, she invented the boom microphone technique; this film was a remake of "Wild Party," starring Clara Bow. At the same time, she helped launch the careers of Katharine Hepburn (in "The Intimate Strangers of Christopher Strong") and Rosalind Russell (in "Craig's Wife"). Although the 20 films she directed may not be groundbreaking, they are definitely classics. The outstanding feminist film representative "Jump, Girls," choreographed by Azna's longtime partner Marion Morgan, tells the story behind the scenes of the entertainment industry and was selected for the National Film Registry. In the film, two leading dancers, Lucille Ball and Maureen O'Hara, compete for jobs and the affections of the same man (played by Louis Hayward). In a key audition scene, the serious dancer Maureen O'Hara fails to seduce the casting man, who is smoking a cigar, while Ball secures a job as a hula dancer through her charm. Azna conveys feminist ideas by using close-up shots to show the man's reactions to the two women, from expressionless to overtly interested.