• That sweeping but historically accurate statement applies with particular force to the rise and decline of Lois Weber.
  • This is the fifteenth installment, featuring Lois Weber, who was born on June 13, 1879 in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania and died on November 13, 1939 in...
  • "Lois Weber had worked with her own [production] unit at Universal City, and had rapidly achieved prominence as the top director on that enormous lot.
  • Lois Weber began film work as an actress, then soon began also writing and directing films.
  • "In the 1910s, Lois Weber (1879-1939) was considered one of the most important American film directors, mentioned in the same breath as D.W...
  • Lois Weber was the leading female director-screenwriter in early Hollywood. She began her career alongside her husband, Phillips Smalley, after the two had...
  • Lois Weber in Shadows of Life (1913). Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber in The Power of Thought (1912).
  • In 1916 she became Universal Studios' highest-paid director, and in 1917 she formed her own production company, Lois Weber Productions.
  • Like today’s video essay, which profiles, succinctly, one of the most remarkable and unsung women filmmakers in early Hollywood history: Lois Weber.
  • In 1917, Weber formed her own company called Lois Weber Productions. During this time, Lois Weber achieved status as the highest paid director in Hollywood.