Lois Weber in Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010)
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Caption: Lois Weber in Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010)
About Florence Pietz
Director, Writer, Actress
Born: June 13, 1879
Star sign: Gemini
Height: 5' 6½" (1.69 m)
Known for: Suspense (1913), Shadows of Life (1913), The Blot (1921), Shoes (1916)
Source: IMDB
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 ...
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