Lois Weber
Birthday: 1879-06-12
Place of Birth: Allegheny City [now Pittsburgh], Pennsylvania, USA
Biography: Lois Weber began film work as an actress, then soon began also writing and directing films. She has been referred to as "the most important female director the American film industry has known". Best known for her hard-hitting films that address social issues, she continued making films into the 1920s until she lost favor with motion picture audiences.
Movies
How Men Propose
Three men in succession propose marriage to Grace Darling; she accepts all! Since they are roommates...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Alleged silent short adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel, first mentioned in a 1966 copy of Films In R...
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The Spider and Her Web
The story concerns the reformation of a fast woman who runs a gambling establishment. Her one fear i...
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A Heroine of '76
During the American Revolution, an innkeeper's daughter learns of a plot to assassinate George Washi...
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Suspense.
Abandoned by her maidservant in an isolated country house, a mother must protect herself and her bab...
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The Pursuit of Hate
Diana Grave's husband has left her, preferring any life to that of living with a woman who is not co...
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Idle Wives
Characters in the film attend a movie titled 'Life’s Mirror', where they see parallel, cautionary ve...
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Sherlock Holmes, Jr.
Little Sherlock Holmes, Jr., reads the doughty doings of his hero-god, and at once determines to bec...
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Fate
Jack Norton had traveled the downgrade, had transgressed the laws of man, had trespassed the forbidd...
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Fine Feathers
The story of a male painter who rises to fame after completing two portraits of his maid, a woman wh...
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A Japanese Idyll
A Japanese Idyll is a 1912 silent short drama film directed by and starring Lois Weber. The film was...
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Lost Illusions
A marital romance in which a married artist woos the wife of another man....
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The Rosary
Haunting and hypnotic, this artistic gem recounts the lyrics from a popular 1898 song of the same na...
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The Price
Pretty Ann, and Joe, the hostler, one day chance to meet. Strong is Joe, and simple, and Ann is shy ...
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Scandal
The lives of a stenographer and her boss are thrown into turmoil by reckless gossip....
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On the Brink
A 1911 silent drama film written and directed by Edwin S. Porter and Lois Weber. Starring Lois Weber...
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From Death to Life
A chemist named Aratus invents a concoction that will turn creatures to stone, but only realizes the...
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Lost by a Hair
A group of jealous men conspire to defeat a romantic rival who has captured the attention of all of ...
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Sunshine Molly
A woman known as Sunshine Molly gets a job in an oil field, and clashes with a belligerent employee ...
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The Eye of God
Olaf writes his memoirs, before his execution. He tells of his life as a struggling farmer when Reni...
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Hop - The Devil's Brew
Lydia Jansen is happily married to a young customs inspector, but she harbors a dark secret. She is ...
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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
A doctor's wife is arrested for educating impoverished women about birth control....
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The Merchant of Venice
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to te...
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The Twins
The baby daughter of Mrs. Norton, a widowed seamstress, dies. The sorrow-stricken mother gazes at th...
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The Jew's Christmas
Early Lois Weber film. Isaac and his faithful wife, Rachel, deplore that in America their children ...
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The Women Who Run Hollywood
The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who dir...
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Eyes That See Not
A self-centred wealthy woman is transformed after she is confronted with the harsh reality of the li...
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False Colors
Famed actor Lloyd Phillips blames his infant daughter Dixie for her mother’s death in childbirth, le...
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Early Directors on Directing
There were more women directors before 1920 than at any other time in history. The first director to...
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