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6518 Hollywood Blvd. Florence Lois Weber (June 13, 1879 – November 13, 1939) was an American silent film director, screenwriter, producer and actress. She is identified in some historical references as among "the most important and prolific film directors in the era of silent films". [1] [2] Film historian Anthony Slide has also asserted ...
Lois Weber was a ground-breaking force in early cinema (Credit: Flicker Alley, LLC] But Weber continued making movies, including one talkie – her last film – in 1934. She divorced Smalley, and ...
Lois Weber was the first American woman to direct a feature-length film and a major director of social-issue movies. She directed over 100 films, wrote many of them, and also acted in some, but did not make the transition to sound.
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Chic, Mlle.“Greatest Woman Director in the World.” Moving Picture Weekly(20 May 1916): 24-25. Cooper, Mark Garrett. Universal Women: A Case of Institutional Change.Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2010. Koszarski, Richard.“The Years Have Not Been Kind to Lois Weber.” In Karyn Kay and Gerald Peary, eds.Women and the Cinema.New York: Dutt...
A. Archival Filmography: Extant Film Titles: 1. Lois Weber as Co-Director, Screenwriter, and/or Actor The Price. Dir.: Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley, sc.: Lois Weber (Rex Motion Picture Co. US 1911) cas.: Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley, si, b&w, 1 reel. 35mm. Archive: EYE Filmmuseum. The Colonel’s Daughter. Dir.: Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley, sc.: Loi...
Lois Weber’s filmography was compiled using information from film trade journals, as well as existing filmographies by Richard Braff and Anthony Slide and the AFI catalogue. FIAF does not always credit her on their database. While many examples of Lois Weber’s directing style are extant, a large percentage exist only as incomplete prints, including...
November 2022: Additional bibliographic resources Norden, Martin F., ed. Lois Weber: Interviews. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019.
Stamp, Shelley. "Lois Weber." In Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall’Asta, eds. Women Film Pioneers Project. New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries, 2013.
Learn about Lois Weber, the leading female director-screenwriter in early Hollywood, who made controversial films on social issues and ran her own production company. Explore her biography, filmography, credit report, and research update on this web page.
Learn about Lois Weber, the first American woman to direct a feature film and a pioneer of social realism in cinema. Discover her life story, her films, and her legacy in this article from The National Endowment for the Humanities.
Jan 5, 2019 · Lois Weber, Hollywood's Forgotten Early Pioneer, Has 2 Films Restored. Though her works have largely been lost, Lois Weber made at least 138 films before 1940 — many of which addressed social ...
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Lois Weber. Director: Suspense. Lois Weber, who had been a street-corner evangelist before entering motion pictures in 1905, became the first American woman movie director of note, and a major one at that. Herbert Blaché, the husband of Frenchwoman Alice Guy, the first woman to direct a motion picture (and arguably, the first director of either gender to helm a fictional narrative film), cast ...
