Women Film Pioneers

Isabel Acuña
Maude Adams
Nina Agadzhanova-Shutko
Muriel Alleyne
Audrie Alspaugh
Tsuru Aoki
Teresita Arce
Alicia Armstrong de Vicuña
Dorothy Arzner
Gertrude Atherton
Leah Baird
Dorothea Baird
Hettie Gray Baker
Aloha Wanderwell Baker
Natalia Bakhareva
Ruth Ann Baldwin
Adelina Barrasa
Bessie Barriscale
Iris Barry
Anne Bauchens
Laura Bayley
Gemma Bellincioni
Clara Beranger
Ouida Bergère
Sarah Bernhardt
Francesca Bertini
Marguerite Bertsch
Cora Johnstone Best
Marian Constance Blackton
Paula Blackton
Harriet Bloch
Anita Maris Boggs
Cube Bonifant (a/o). PC
Cube Bonifant
Margaret Booth
Jessica Elvira Borthwick
Bertha Muzzy Bower
Madeline Brandeis
Marvin Breckinridge
Beta Breuil
Constance Bromley
Zinaida Brumberg
Valentina Brumberg
Adele S. Buffington
Betty Burbridge
Hazel Burnett
Bianca Virginia Camagni
Elizabeth R. Carpenter
Carmen Cartellieri
Giulia Cassini-Rizzotto
Virgínia de Castro e Almeida
Thea Červenková
Elsa Chauvel
Mrs. George Randolph Chester
Haydée Chikly
May Clark
Josephine Clement
Lenore Coffee
Elsie Cohen
Mabel Condon
Kate Corbaley
Helena Cortesina
Sada Cowan
Grace Cunard
Berthe Dagmar
Virginia Dale
Helena Smith Dayton
Marie de Kerstrat
Renée Deliot
Beatrice deMille
Lucie Derain
Mimí Derba
Beulah Marie Dix
Ruth Gould Dolesé
Mona Donaldson
Dorothea Donn-Byrne
Maria C. Downs
Gurly Drangsholt
Marie Dressler
Mrs. Sidney Drew
Lillian Ducey
Lucy Duff-Gordon
Winifred Dunn
Winnifred Eaton
Gerd Egede-Nissen
Ada Egede-Nissen
Aud Egede-Nissen
Adriana and Dolores Ehlers (d/o). RNICMC
Adriana Ehlers
Adriana and Dolores Ehlers (d/o). RNICMC
Dolores Ehlers
Nell Emerald
Esther Eng
Fabienne Fabrèges
Marion Fairfax
Fan Xuepeng
Dot Farley
Dorothy Farnum
Frances Baker Farrell
Sabahat Filmer
Flora Finch
Cissy Fitzgerald
Marie Louise Gagner
Helen Gardner
Gene Gauntier
Agnes Gavin
Emma Gendron
Elvira Giallanella
Angela Murray Gibson
Jenny Gilbertson
Lillian Gish
Eloyce King Patrick Gist
Elinor Glyn
María Luz Morales Godoy
Ruth Goetz
Dorothy Gordon
Dorothy Gottlieb
Ethel Grandin
Corinne Griffith
Elizabeth B. Grimball
Texas Guinan
Alice Guy Blaché
Greta Håkansson
Gladys Hall
Genevieve Harris
Máirín Hayes
Lydia Hayward
Gale Henry
Margaret Hepworth
Katharine Hilliker
Gerda Hintze
Anna Hofman-Uddgren
Helen Holmes
Drusilla Dunjee Houston
Possum Paddock (1921) Kate Howarde (d/w/prod). AUC
Kate Howarde
Alice Howell
Hu Ping
Zora Neale Hurston
Pearl Ing
Eugenie Magnus Ingleton
Julia Crawford Ivers
Alice Smythe Jay
Ida Jenbach
Osa Johnson
Agnes Christine Johnston
Flossie A. Jones
Maibelle Heikes Justice
Diana Karenne
Aili Kari
Helen Keller
Annette Kellerman
Aleksandra Khokhlova
Bradley King
Louise Kolm-Fleck
Florence Lawrence
Viola Lawrence
Caroline Lejeune
Marion Leonard
Sonya Levien
Ray Lewis
Leila Lewis
Beulah Livingstone
Anita Loos
Enid Lorimer
Hope Loring
Jane Loring
Ruth Harriet Louise
Louise Lovely
Josephine Lovett
Christabel Lowndes-Yates
Alva Lundin
Lottie Lyell
Frederica Sagor Maas
Blanche MacIntosh
Mary MacLane
Jeanie Macpherson
Cleo Madison
Mary Manning
Anna Mar
Gwladys, Marchioness of Townshend
Frances Marion
Suzanne Marwille
Sarah Y. Mason
June Mathis
Margaret Mayo
Vera McCord
Isabel McDonagh
Paulette McDonagh
Phyllis McDonagh
Elizabeth McGaffey
Abby Meehan
Jackeydawra Melford
Georgette Méliès
Christiane Mendelys
Bess Meredyth
Mary Lawton Metcalfe
Beatriz Michelena
Dorothea Mitchell
Lorna Moon
Irene Morra
Jane Murfin
Mary Murillo
Mae Murray
Musidora
Bedia Muvahhit
Nancy Naumburg
Alla Nazimova
Neyyire Neyir
Asta Nielsen
Eva Nil
Nina Niovilla
Fernanda Nissen
Mabel Normand
Elvira Notari
Mary O’Connor
Ellen O’Mara Sullivan
Ruth Bryan Owen
Ida May Park
Harriet Parsons
Louella Parsons
Frances Taylor Patterson
Frances Peck
Mrs. M.T. Pender
Olga Petrova
Elizabeth Chevalier Pickett
Mary Pickford
Rosa Porten
Gertrude Price
Olga Printzlau
Pu Shunqing
Caroline Frances Pugliese
Ol’ga Rakhmanova
Natacha Rambova
Ángela Ramos de Rotalde
Lettice Ramsey
Josephine Rector
Dorothy Davenport Reid
Lotte Reiniger
Cándida Beltrán Rendón
Marguerite Renoir
Alma Reville
Eslanda Robeson
Rosario Rodríguez de la Serna
Adela Rogers St. Johns
Kathleen Romoli
Alice Rosenthal
Gladys Rosson
Fanchon Royer
Juliet Barrett Rublee
Alice B. Russell
Lillian Case Russell
Tazuko Sakane
Emilia Saleny
Maria Isabel Sánchez Concha Aramburú
Emilie Sannom
Carmen Santos
Henderina Victoria Scott
Encarnacion Rosa Scott
Adela Sequeyro
Matilde Serao
Blanche Sewell
Nell Shipman
Audrey Forfar Shippam
Esfir Shub
Stella F. Simon
Rose Smith
Stefanía Socha
Adriënne Solser
Tressie Souders
Señora Spencer
Anita Stewart
Ruth Stonehouse
Marie Stopes
Jenny Strömberg
Elizaveta Svilova
Gloria Swanson
Daisy Sylvan
Constance Talmadge
Norma Talmadge
Kinuyo Tanaka
Eliane Tayar
Alice Terry
Gertrude Homan Thanhouser
Elizaveta Thiemann
Berthe Thuillier
Élisabeth Thuillier
Beatrice Maude Tildesley
Fay Tincher
Carmen Toscano
Wanda Tuchock
Margaret Turnbull
Florence Turner
Madge Tyrone
Harriette Underhill
Eve Unsell
Ada Aline Urban
Elena Sánchez Valenzuela
Valda Valkyrien
Caroline van Dommelen
Cleo de Verberena
Marguerite Viel
Katri Viita
Gabriela von Bussenius Vega
Thea von Harbou
Helen Wang
Lule Warrenton
May Watkis
Lois Weber
Clare West
Pearl White
Kathlyn Williams
Maria P. Williams
Edna Williams
Elsie Jane Wilson
Margery Wilson
Margaret J. Winkler
Marion E. Wong
Xie Caizhen
Yan Shanshan
Yang Naimei
Anzia Yezierska
Dorothy Yost
Clara Kimball Young
Marija Jurić Zagorka
Stefania Zahorska
Esterina Zuccarone
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