Film historian, professor, writer, doc filmmaker, lover of nature, travel, and good food. Latest book, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott." Next book: a bio of Dorothy Arzner. https://www.marshagordon.orghttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3moghe3llgc2uI'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.16 Jun 2026 18:44 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3moghe3llgc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3mndegalxqc2xI enjoyed being interviewed abt Hollywood history for this @theguardian.com article + I love that they hotlinked to the 1929 Motion Picture Magazine article I cited at @archive.org! Welcome to the joys of archival research, Guardian readers! And thank you IA! https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jun/02/hollywood-acting-plastic-surgery02 Jun 2026 19:48 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mndegalxqc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3mnafzzsob22uI 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!01 Jun 2026 15:39 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnafzzsob22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3mmrr5zyijc2iUSC 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 #edison26 May 2026 19:48 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmrr5zyijc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3mmrmiedny227I got asked to talk about my 5 favorite films of 1912--that doesn't happen every day! Thanks @ettletodd.bsky.social for giving me a chance to talk about #filmhistory and some interesting movies from more than a century ago. 🙌 https://open.spotify.com/episode/65FU8ktaBDYx2OmRqIxaHu?si=9c194f41adea4dee&nd=1&dlsi=9967a780dd2348e426 May 2026 18:24 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmrmiedny227https://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3mkldx666ds2fLove this video featuring @themorbidzoo.bsky.social that @ncstate.bsky.social created. Mariana graduated with an MA in English with a film studies concentration and she's been rocking her #YouTube #videoessay channel ever since it started as her thesis project! ❤️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA15j9Zqp-k28 Apr 2026 19:45 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkldx666ds2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3miz6io4nck2mPsyched 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 #35mm08 Apr 2026 20:55 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3miz6io4nck2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3mhxt4kpbos2mHappy 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 #exwife26 Mar 2026 14:33 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhxt4kpbos2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3mhobocmlq22fTomorrow 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/4sKDwo522 Mar 2026 19:27 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhobocmlq22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3mhgxfnpmrc2vResearch 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 #katharinehepburn19 Mar 2026 21:35 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhgxfnpmrc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3mhbdikflac2gDorothy 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 #marionmorgan17 Mar 2026 15:55 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhbdikflac2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3mhbcuqmlzk2gDorothy 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 #hollywood17 Mar 2026 15:44 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhbcuqmlzk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3mdy44anflc2jI'm so sorry to hear about the passing of Christa Fuller, who was so generous with me when I was researching + writing my book about her husband, filmmaker #SamFuller. Christa was outspoken, funny, a great hostess, and a ferocious tender of Sam's legacy. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/christa-lang-dead-samuel-fuller-1236493895/03 Feb 2026 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdy44anflc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3mbtptq2gq22vRevisiting a past publication in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social about women "camera crankers" working in cinema's first decades. If it's new to you, enjoy! https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/lights-camera-maids-action-women-behind-the-lens-in-early-cinema/ #womenmakemovies #cinematography #cinematographers #womenfilmpioneers #filmhistory07 Jan 2026 14:53 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbtptq2gq22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3mbcdftxgw22jIf 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. 😅31 Dec 2025 16:55 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbcdftxgw22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3m3x4rh2nhc2qEverything 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: https://linktr.ee/FrontRowClassics #normashearer #thedivorcee #exwife #ursulaparrott24 Oct 2025 14:51 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3x4rh2nhc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3m3q5j6hlvk2dI 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. 😣21 Oct 2025 20:15 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3q5j6hlvk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3m3myyhd2ws23Grateful to Indy Weekly for the nice write-up of "In Search of Thoreau's Flowers," currently on view at the Gregg Museum of Art and Design at NC State. If you are in #Raleigh between now and the end of January 2026, come see the show! #art #climate #interactivemedia #thoreau #walden [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Oct 2025 14:17 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3myyhd2ws23https://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3lz4vxxisns24Perhaps in the mood for a story about flowers and literature and an interdisciplinary collaboration in the arts, sciences, and humanities @ncstate.bsky.social? #thoreau #flowers #art #flowerart #pressedflowers #flowerpower https://chass.ncsu.edu/news/2025/09/18/flower-power/18 Sep 2025 17:50 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz4vxxisns24https://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3lxfm44fru22zThe new French translation of Ursula Parrott’s “Ex-Wife” that just got delivered is très belle! #ursulaparrrott #exwife27 Aug 2025 17:57 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxfm44fru22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3lwowghvkcs2lTalked 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/4mMCLHo18 Aug 2025 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwowghvkcs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3lvonowdszk2nIf 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!05 Aug 2025 21:29 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvonowdszk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3lv6vmzw6ec2b🚨 Early Bird Pricing ENDS tomorrow July 31 – Bastard Film Encounter 5.0 Awaits 🎬 Oct 8–11, 2025 | Columbia, SC Bold films, unfiltered stories, no pretension. Just one unforgettable encounter with cinema’s wild side. 👉 Grab Your Early Bird Tickets Now https://bastardfilmencounter.com/bfe-5-registration-info/30 Jul 2025 15:08 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv6vmzw6ec2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3luii4nfht22aBeing 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 #women21 Jul 2025 17:08 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3luii4nfht22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3lu3xc2rehk24Feel 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 #normashearer16 Jul 2025 17:35 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu3xc2rehk24https://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3ltn7oth6ms2hI thoroughly enjoyed talking abt F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"--espec. the female characters, Gatsby as a romance novel, and as it relates to Ursula Parrott's "Ex-Wife"--on this just-dropped podcast episode. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2aTP7EzvzHCnMbG3URSct7?si=NUB-ex6IQemvAYmvfPk6Wg #gatsby #fitzgerald #ursulaparrott #1920s10 Jul 2025 20:55 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltn7oth6ms2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3ltfjhbabzc26Grateful 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 #nypl07 Jul 2025 19:28 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltfjhbabzc26https://bsky.app/profile/marshagordon.bsky.social/post/3ltfhxebl2226Grateful 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 #nypl07 Jul 2025 19:02 +0000at://did:plc:m6tfrablgitpmbteinmmygpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltfhxebl2226