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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
Interestingly, the famed director Dorothy Arzner spent some of her teenage and early adult years just up the street at 617 Shatto Place.
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A Certain Cinema
Dorothy Arzner is one of the most interesting women--one of the most interesting people--ever to have come out of Hollywood. Her story is
easily Googled; here I just want to post a clip from the
Times from the occasion of her family's move to Shatto Place. (They had been living
at 1600 Wilshire Blvd, née Orange Street.) Dorothy was 17 at the time of the move.
LAT
I suppose Arzner's life was more unconventional for its time rather than particularly noirish in the sense of crime, but years later her old house figured in a little minor noir:
LAT
I didn't find anything about the outcome of the case.