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."

Фільмографія

• Hollywood — Self (archive footage, uncredited)
• 1934White Heat — Writer, Director
• 1927Sensation Seekers — Director, Writer
• 1927The Angel of Broadway — Director
• 1927Topsy and Eva — Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1926The Marriage Clause — Director, Writer
• 1923A Chapter in Her Life — Director, Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1921The Blot — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1921Too Wise Wives — Director, Producer, Story, Screenplay
• 1921What Do Men Want? — Writer, Director
• 1921What's Worth While? — Producer, Director, Writer
• 1920To Please One Woman — Writer, Director
• 1919A Midnight Romance — Writer, Director
• 1919Forbidden — Writer, Director
• 1919Home — Director, Writer
• 1919Mary Regan — Director, Scenario Writer, Screenplay
• 1919When a Girl Loves — Writer, Director
• 1918Borrowed Clothes — Director, Writer
• 1918For Husbands Only — Adaptation, Director, Producer, Screenplay
• 1918Tarzan of the Apes — Writer
• 1918The Doctor and the Woman — Director, Writer
• 1917Alone in the World
• 1917Even as You and I — Director
• 1917The Hand That Rocks the Cradle — Mrs. Broome, Director, Writer, Producer
• 1917The Mysterious Mrs. M — Director, Writer
• 1917The Price of a Good Time — Director, Writer, Editor
• 1916Discontent — Director, Writer
• 1916Hop - The Devil's Brew — Lydia Jansen, Director, Scenario Writer, Screenplay
• 1916Idle Wives — Anne, Director, Writer, Adaptation, Producer
• 1916John Needham's Double — Director
• 1916Saving the Family Name — Director, Writer
• 1916Shoes — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1916The Dumb Girl of Portici — Producer, Adaptation, Director
• 1916The Eye of God — Renie, Scenario Writer, Director
• 1916The Flirt — Writer, Director
• 1916The People vs. John Doe — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1916Wanted- A Home — Producer, Story
• 1916Where Are My Children? — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1915A Cigarette - That's All — Director
• 1915Betty in Search of a Thrill — Director
• 1915Captain Courtesy — Director
• 1915Hypocrites — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1915It's No Laughing Matter — Writer, Director
• 1915Jewel — Writer
• 1915Scandal — Daisy Dean, Director, Writer
• 1915Sunshine Molly — Sunshine Molly, Director, Writer
• 1914False Colors — Mrs. Moore, Screenplay, Director
• 1914Lost by a Hair — Summer Girl, Director, Writer
• 1914The Merchant of Venice — Portia, Director, Writer
• 1914The Opened Shutters — Scenario Writer
• 1914The Pursuit of Hate — Diana Grave, Director
• 1914The Spider and Her Web — Madame DuBarr, Director, Scenario Writer
• 1913How Men Propose — The Maid, Director, Producer
• 1913Suspense — The Wife, Director, Writer
• 1913The Jew's Christmas — Leah - Isaac's Daughter, Director, Writer
• 1913The Picture of Dorian Gray — Screenplay
• 1913The Rosary — The Soldier's Sweetheart, Director
• 1912A Japanese Idyll — Director
• 1912Eyes That See Not — The Millionaire's Wife, Director
• 1912Fine Feathers — Mira, the Artist's Model, Director
• 1912The Troubadour's Triumph — Director, Writer
• 1911A Heroine of '76 — The Tavern Keeper's Daughter, Director
• 1911Fate — Flora Brown, Director
• 1911From Death to Life — Aratus' Wife, Director
• 1911Lost Illusions — Grace - The Wife
• 1911On the Brink — Tess, Director, Story
• 1911Sherlock Holmes, Jr. — Mrs. Brown
• 1911The Price — Ann, Director, Writer
• 1911The Twins — The Twin Sisters, Writer, Director

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (2)

• 2016The Women Who Run Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• 2009Early Directors on Directing — Self