Lois Weber
Biography
Lois Weber (1879 - 1939) was a true American auteur on par with D. W. Griffith. A director, actress, screenwriter, and producer of mostly silent films, she was the first American woman to direct a full-length feature film (1914's The Merchant of Venice), the first American woman director to own her own film studio, and one of the first film directors to experiment with sound. Weber pioneered the split-screen technique in the 1913 short film Suspense, and Hypocrites featured the first non-pornogr...
Also Known As
Florence Lois Weber, Mrs. Phillips Smalley
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Lois Weber's Movies
Suspense.
06 Jul 1913
How Men Propose
19 Jul 1913
The Women Who Run Hollywood
16 May 2016
The Rosary
03 May 1913
The Price
23 Nov 1911
Fate
06 Jul 1911
The Twins
14 Jun 1911
Idle Wives
16 Sept 1916
A Heroine of '76
16 Feb 1911
The Pursuit of Hate
14 Jun 1914
Sherlock Holmes, Jr.
20 Jul 1911
A Japanese Idyll
28 Aug 1912
Fine Feathers
02 Feb 1912
Alone in the World
03 Jan 1917
On the Brink
22 Jun 1911
From Death to Life
08 Jun 1911
Lost by a Hair
28 Jun 1914
Eyes That See Not
14 Mar 1912
The Picture of Dorian Gray
01 Jan 1913
The Spider and Her Web
26 Mar 1914