Lois Weber
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-pornographic full-frontal female nude scene in 1915. Many of her films tackled social issues like abortion, poverty, discrimination, and religion, drawing the attention of censors.
Only a fraction of her films, estimated to number between 200 and 400, were preserved. In 2022, the American Film Institute announced a new initiative titled "Behind the Veil," after one of Weber's lost films. The initiative "will document 6,000 short films from the silent and early sound eras to uncover the innovative contributions of female and BIPOC storytellers."
Fotos
Películas (70)
The Women Who Run Hollywood
2016 · Self (archive footage)
Early Directors on Directing
2009 · Self
White Heat
1934 · Writer, Director
The Angel of Broadway
1927 · Director
Topsy and Eva
1927 · Adaptation, Screenplay
Sensation Seekers
1927 · Director, Writer
The Marriage Clause
1926 · Director, Writer
A Chapter in Her Life
1923 · Director, Adaptation, Screenplay
What Do Men Want?
1921 · Director, Writer
The Blot
1921 · Director, Writer, Producer
Too Wise Wives
1921 · Director, Story, Producer, Screenplay
What's Worth While?
1921 · Writer, Director, Producer
To Please One Woman
1920 · Director, Writer
Forbidden
1919 · Director, Writer
Home
1919 · Director, Writer
Mary Regan
1919 · Director, Scenario Writer, Screenplay
A Midnight Romance
1919 · Director, Writer
When a Girl Loves
1919 · Director, Writer
Borrowed Clothes
1918 · Director, Writer
For Husbands Only
1918 · Director, Adaptation, Producer, Screenplay
The Doctor and the Woman
1918 · Director, Writer
Tarzan of the Apes
1918 · Writer
The Price of a Good Time
1917 · Director, Writer, Editor
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
1917 · Mrs. Broome, Director, Writer, Producer
Even as You and I
1917 · Director
The Mysterious Mrs. M
1917 · Director, Writer
Alone in the World
1917
The People vs. John Doe
1916 · Director, Writer, Producer
Wanted- A Home
1916 · Producer, Story
Idle Wives
1916 · Anne, Director, Writer, Producer, Adaptation
Saving the Family Name
1916 · Director, Writer
Shoes
1916 · Director, Writer, Producer
The Eye of God
1916 · Renie, Scenario Writer, Director, Writer
Where Are My Children?
1916 · Director, Producer, Writer
John Needham's Double
1916 · Director
The Flirt
1916 · Writer, Director
Hop - The Devil's Brew
1916 · Lydia Jansen, Director, Scenario Writer, Screenplay
The Dumb Girl of Portici
1916 · Adaptation, Producer, Director
Discontent
1916 · Director, Writer
Jewel
1915 · Writer
A Cigarette - That's All
1915 · Director
Scandal
1915 · Daisy Dean, Director, Writer
Betty in Search of a Thrill
1915 · Director
Captain Courtesy
1915 · Director
Sunshine Molly
1915 · Sunshine Molly, Director, Writer
Hypocrites
1915 · Director, Writer, Producer
It's No Laughing Matter
1915 · Director, Writer
False Colors
1914 · Mrs. Moore, Director, Screenplay
The Opened Shutters
1914 · Scenario Writer
Lost by a Hair
1914 · Summer Girl, Director, Writer
The Pursuit of Hate
1914 · Diana Grave, Director
The Spider and Her Web
1914 · Madame DuBarr, Director, Scenario Writer
The Merchant of Venice
1914 · Portia, Director, Writer
The Jew's Christmas
1913 · Leah - Isaac's Daughter, Director, Writer
How Men Propose
1913 · The Maid, Director, Producer
Suspense
1913 · The Wife, Director, Writer
The Rosary
1913 · The Soldier's Sweetheart, Director
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1913 · Screenplay
A Japanese Idyll
1912 · Director
The Troubadour's Triumph
1912 · Director, Writer
Eyes That See Not
1912 · The Millionaire's Wife, Director
Fine Feathers
1912 · Mira, the Artist's Model, Director
The Price
1911 · Ann, Director, Writer
Lost Illusions
1911 · Grace - The Wife
Sherlock Holmes, Jr.
1911 · Mrs. Brown
Fate
1911 · Flora Brown, Director
On the Brink
1911 · Tess, Director, Story
The Twins
1911 · The Twin Sisters, Director, Writer
From Death to Life
1911 · Aratus' Wife, Director
A Heroine of '76
1911 · The Tavern Keeper's Daughter, Director
