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Florence Lois Weber (June 13, 1879 – November 13, 1939) was an American silent film director, screenwriter, producer and actress.
Mar 20, 2019 · In the silent-movie era, Lois Weber’s films were shockingly ahead of their time – and also immensely popular. She wrote, directed, produced and sometimes starred in her films, and in 1916 was the...
Lois Weber was the leading female director-screenwriter in early Hollywood. She began her career alongside her husband, Phillips Smalley, after the two had worked together in the theatre. They began working in motion pictures around 1907, often billed under the collective title “The Smalleys.”
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.
Mar 14, 2019 · Lois Weber was a fanatical realist, a fantasist, a master technician, and one of the most original directors of the silent-film era—an artist of historic power. Photograph from Bettmann / Getty...
Lois Weber: An Early Hollywood Filmmaker with Her Own Studio. Her films examined the lives of women. Angelica Aboulhosn. HUMANITIES, Fall 2023, Volume 44, Number 4. Photo caption. In 1914, a reporter for Photoplay was sent to profile the film director Lois Weber.
Jun 9, 2021 · L ois Weber was Hollywood’s leading female director in the 1910s and 1920s. But also: she was one of the great directors of the silent era regardless of gender, a filmmaker of remarkable vision who exerted an exceptional degree of creative control.
Apr 29, 2020 · Lois Weber was an early film pioneer as the first American woman to direct a full-length feature film in 1913, and one of the first directors to own her own film studio.
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.
Dec 15, 2016 · Once upon a Hollywood time, one of filmdom’s biggest directors was Lois Weber. Woodrow Wilson was president, and women couldn’t have voted for him even if they had wanted to, but inside the movie...
