Directing
Lois Weber
- Born
- Jun 12, 1879 · Aged 60
- Died
- Nov 13, 1939
- Place of birth
- Allegheny City [now Pittsburgh], Pennsylvania, USA
- Gender
- Female
- Movie credits
- 30
- TV credits
- 1
- Directing credits
- 59
Also known as (2)
- Florence Lois Weber
- Mrs. Phillips Smalley
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-pornographic full-frontal female nude scene in 1915. Many of her films tackled social issues like…
