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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 She is identified in some historical references as among "the most important and prolific film directors in the era of silent films".
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.
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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.
Mar 20, 2019 · A nude scene! Abortion; birth control; prostitution! In the silent-movie era, Lois Weber’s films were shockingly ahead of their time – and also immensely popular.
Jan 5, 2019 · The first American woman to direct a feature-length drama, Weber made woman-centered films with daring commentary. She's barely known now, though the rerelease of two major...
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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.
LOIS WEBER. “Lois Weber was the most successful of all the women directors in the first quarter of the 20th century and, at the time, was placed alongside the likes of D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille as the major innovative forces in filmmaking.”. — Cari Beauchamp, IndieWire.
