Contributors
Richard Abel: Audrie Alspaugh | Josephine Clement | Virginia Dale | Dorothy Gottlieb | Flossie A. Jones | Genevieve Harris | Beulah Livingston | Frances Peck | Gertrude Price | Harriette Underhill | “Newspaperwomen and the Movies in the USA, 1914-1925”
Charlie Achuff: Eve Unsell
Vito Adriaensens: Winnifred Eaton
Julie Allen: Asta Nielsen
Mark Lynn Anderson: Dorothy Davenport Reid
Anna Andreeva: Anna Mar
Marcella Grecco de Araujo: Cleo de Verberena
Kay Armatage: “The Absence of Canadian Women in the Silent Picture Industry”
Alejandra Armendáriz-Hernández: Kinuyo Tanaka
Luciana Corrêa de Araújo: Eva Nil
Isabel Arredondo: Kathleen Romoli | Juliet Barrett Rublee
Kaveh Askari: Ethel Grandin
Eylem Atakav: Bedia Muvahhit and Neyyire Neyir
Daniel Lawrence Aufmann: “Daughters of Mary and Gene: The Two Origins of the Serial Queen Action Heroine”
Peter Bagrov: Elizaveta Thiemann
Daniela Bajar: Sada Cowan | Lillian Ducey | Maibelle Heikes Justice
Canan Balan: Sabahat Filmer
Tiago Baptista: Virgínia de Castro e Almeida
Rebecca Barry: The McDonagh Sisters
Jennifer M. Bean: Grace Cunard
Michel S. Beaulieu: Dorothea Mitchell
Annie Berke: Hope Loring
Ina Bertrand: Elsa Chauvel | Mona Donaldson | Agnes Gavin | Kate Howarde
Amy Bethel: Henderina Victoria Scott | Encarnacion Rosa Scott
Randy Bigham: Lucy Duff-Gordon
Gretchen Bisplinghoff: Gene Gauntier
Robin Blaetz: Leah Baird | Lenore Coffee
Jindřiška Bláhová: Thea Červenková
Livia Bloom: Sada Cowan | Lillian Ducey | Maibelle Heikes Justice
Peggy Brooks-Bertram: Drusilla Dunjee Houston
Kelly Brown: Florence Lawrence
Simon Brown: Blanche MacIntosh
Julie Buck: Beatrice deMille | Mary MacLane | Jane Murfin | Gloria Swanson
Sofia Bull: Alva Lundin
Jon Burrows: Florence Turner
Clarice M. Butkus: Annette Kellerman
Donna Casella: Dorothea Donn-Byrne | Frances Baker Farrell | Lettice Ramsey | Máirín Hayes | Mary Manning | Ellen O’Mara Sullivan| Mrs. M.T. Pender | “Shaping the Craft of Screenwriting: Women Screen Writers in Silent Era Hollywood”
Alessandra Chiarini: Esterina Zuccarone
Liz Clarke: Mary O’Connor
Malcolm Cook: Margaret J. Winkler
Mark Garrett Cooper: Ruth Ann Baldwin | Lillian Gish | Cleo Madison | Ida May Park | Kathlyn Williams | Elsie Jane Wilson
Elena Cordero-Hoyo: Helena Cortesina
Donald Crafton: Edna Williams
Corey K. Creekmur: Texas Guinan
Denise K. Cummings: Elinor Glyn
Marina Dahlquist: Anna Hofman-Uddgren | Pearl White
Monica Dall’Asta: Francesca Bertini
Leslie Midkiff DeBauche: Lucy Duff-Gordon
Greta de Groat: The Talmadge Sisters
Sarah Delahousse: Marion Leonard | Margaret Turnbull
Jeannette Delamoir: Louise Lovely
Rocío del Consuelo Pérez Solano: Cube Bonifant
Linda Del Gamba: Diana Karenne
Jessica DePrest: Aloha Wanderwell Baker
Aimee Dixon: Zora Neale Hurston | “African-American Women in the Silent Film Industry”
Dunja Dogo: Esfir Shub
Eliana Jara Donoso: Alicia Armstrong de Vicuña | Rosario Rodríguez de la Serna | Gabriela von Bussenius Vega
Jason Cody Douglass: Helena Smith Dayton
Victoria Duckett: Sarah Bernhardt | “Theater Actresses and the Transition to Silent Film”
Patrick Ellis: Mary Lawton Metcalfe
Patricia Brett Erens: Sonya Levien | Anzia Yezierska
Barbara Evans: Jenny Gilbertson
Alessandro Faccioli: Giulia Cassini-Rizzotto
Annie Fee: Christiane Mendelys
Valeria Festinese: Gemma Bellincioni
Allyson Nadia Field: Dorothy Arzner
Tony Fletcher: Laura Bayley | May Clark | Nell Emerald | Margaret Hepworth
Lisle Foote: Elizabeth McGaffey | Fanchon Royer
Annette Förster: Musidora | Rosa Porten| Adriënne Solser | Caroline van Dommelen
Moira Fradinger: Emilia Saleny
Agata Frymus: Nina Niovilla | Stefania Zahorska
Kathryn Fuller-Seeley: “Exhibiting Women: Gender, Showmanship, and the Professionalization of Film Exhibition in the United States, 1900–1930”
Jane Gaines: Eugenie Magnus Ingleton | Jeanie Macpherson | Lule Warrenton | “How Women Worked in the US Silent Film Industry” | “Women as Camera Operators or ‘Cranks’” | “Alice and the Too Many Mattresses”
Mila Ganeva: Ruth Goetz
Christine Gledhill: Lydia Hayward
Marsha Gordon: Hettie Gray Baker | Madge Tyrone
Birgit Granhøj: Harriet Bloch
Charles “Buckey” Grimm: Angela Murray Gibson | “The ‘Camera Maid’ Conundrum”
Frances Guerin: Lotte Reiniger
Fiona Gunn: Caroline Frances Pugliese
Barbara Hall: Gladys Hall
James Hansen: Gertrude Atherton | Winifred Dunn
Kristen Hatch: Anne Bauchens | Margaret Booth | Katharine Hilliker | Viola Lawrence | Jane Loring | Irene Morra | Blanche Sewell | Rose Smith | “Cutting Women: Margaret Booth and Hollywood’s Pioneering Female Film Editors”
Carmen Hendershott: Elizabeth B. Grimball
Maggie Hennefeld: Cissy Fitzgerald
Joanne Hershfield: “Writing the History of Latin American Women Working in the Silent Film Industry”
Matthew Hipps: Adele S. Buffington | Dorothy Farnum
Wendy Holliday: Beulah Marie Dix | Olga Petrova
Laura Horak: Osa Johnson
Jennifer Horne: Alla Nazimova
Cameron Howard: Marian Constance Blackton | Paula Blackton
Outi Hupaniittu: Jenny Strömberg
Casiana Ionita: Mrs. Sidney Drew
Gunnar Iversen: The Egede-Nissen Sisters
Vicky Jackson: Maude Adams
Carolyn Jacobs: Mabel Condon
Cristina Jandelli: Diana Karenne | Daisy Sylvan
Song Jegal: Kate Corbaley
Dijana Jelača: Marija Jurić Zagorka
Martin Johnson: Ruth Gould Dolesé
Simon Joyce: Mabel Normand
Maya Balakirsky Katz: The Brumberg Sisters
Charlie Keil: Florence Turner
Michelle Kelley: Louella and Harriet Parsons
Heidi Kenaga: Alice Terry
Michelle Koerner: Elizabeth Chevalier Pickett | Ruth Stonehouse | Wanda Tuchock |“Women as Camera Operators or ‘Cranks’”
Richard Koszarski: Nancy Naumburg
Anna Kovalova: Natalia Bakhareva | Elizaveta Thiemann
Annette Kuhn: Elinor Glyn | Marie Stopes
Germain Lacasse: Marie de Kerstrat | Emma Gendron
Christina Lane: Mrs. George Randolph Chester | Vera McCord | Ruth Bryan Owen
Jenny Kwok Wah Lau: Marion E. Wong
Kendra Preston Leonard: Hazel Burnett | Alice Smythe Jay
Jia Jia Liu: Valda Valkyrien
Emiliana Losma: Bianca Virginia Camagni
Kiki Loveday: “Do You Believe in Fairies? Cabbages, Victorian Memes, and the Birth of Cinema: Seeing Sapphic Sexuality in the Silent Era”
Mario Lucioni: Teresita Arce | Ángela Ramos de Rotalde| Maria Isabel Sánchez Concha Aramburú | Stefanía Socha
Maria Fosheim Lund: Bessie Barriscale | Beta Breuil
Marzia Maino: Giulia Cassini-Rizzotto
Karen Ward Mahar: Helen Holmes | Clara Kimball Young | “Exhibiting Women: Gender, Showmanship, and the Professionalization of Film Exhibition in the United States, 1900–1930”
Mary Mallory: Ruth Harriet Louise
Jacques Malthête: Georgette Méliès | Élisabeth and Berthe Thuillier
Kenya Márquez: Cándida Beltrán Rendón
Steve Massa: Gale Henry | Alice Howell
Jill Julius Matthews: Beatrice Maude Tildesley
Madeline F. Matz: Eve Unsell
Denise McKenna: Olga Printzlau
Luke McKernan: Jessica Elvira Borthwick | Abby Meehan | Alice Rosenthal | Ada Aline Urban | Muriel Alleyne and Christabel Lowndes-Yates
Alison McMahan: Alice Guy Blaché
Anke Mebold: Lotte Reiniger
Ouissal Mejri: Haydée Chikly
April Miller: Dot Farley | Flora Finch | Julia Crawford Ivers | Agnes Christine Johnston
Angel Miquel: Mimí Derba
Eva Molcard: Elizaveta Svilova
Kyna Morgan: Eloyce King Patrick Gist | Eslanda Robeson | Alice B. Russell | Tressie Souders | Maria P. Williams | “African-American Women in the Silent Film Industry”
Paul S. Moore: Marie Dressler | Ray Lewis | “The Absence of Canadian Women in the Silent Picture Industry”
Anne Morey: Adela Rogers St. Johns
Nathalie Morris: Leila Lewis | Alma Reville
Anne Marit Myrstad: Gurly Drangsholt | Fernanda Nissen
Margot Nash: Lottie Lyell
Christopher Natzén: Greta Håkansson
Hugh Neely: Anita Stewart
Elena Nepoti: Fabienne Fabrèges
Irela Núñez: Teresita Arce | Ángela Ramos de Rotalde| Maria Isabel Sánchez Concha Aramburú | Stefanía Socha
Ana Olenina: Aleksandra Khokhlova
Zack Oleson: Gladys Rosson
Jan Olsson: Marie Louise Gagner
Viktoria Paranyuk: Josephine Rector
Jennifer Parchesky: Marguerite Bertsch
Louis Pelletier: Ray Lewis | “The Absence of Canadian Women in the Silent Picture Industry”
Xin Peng: Yan Shanshan
Riikka Pennanen: Gerda Hintze | Katri Viita
Ana Pessoa: Carmen Santos
Christina Petersen: Mary Murillo
Dana Polan: Frances Taylor Patterson
Jennifer Putzi: Mabel Normand
Qin Xiqing: Hu Ping
Joanna E. Rapf: Fay Tincher
Eva N. Redvall: Harriet Bloch
Sara Ross: Tsuru Aoki
Lori Rossiter: Clara Beranger
JoAnne Ruvoli: Anita Loos | Frances Marion | Lorna Moon
Natalie Ryabchikova: Nina Agadzhanova-Shutko | Ol’ga Rakhmanova
Kate Saccone: “Video Gallery: Unassigned US Screenwriters” | Alice Guy Blaché at Columbia University: One Hundred Years Later | Research Update: Alice Guy Blaché at Columbia University
Abigail Salerno: Helen Keller | Josephine Lovett
Hannu Salmi: Aili Kari
Stéphanie Salmon: Élisabeth and Berthe Thuillier
Amy Sargeant: Caroline Lejeune
Christel Schmidt: Mary Pickford
Dorin Gardner Schumacher: Helen Gardner
Laura Isabel Serna: Adelina Barrasa | Anita Maris Boggs
Trish Sheil: Dorothea Baird
Maya Sidhu: Marguerite Renoir | Marguerite Viel
Laura Simmons: Ouida Bergère
Robert Sitton: Iris Barry
Tom Slater: Marion Fairfax | Corinne Griffith
Begoña Soto-Vázquez: María Luz Morales Godoy
Aurore Spiers: Berthe Dagmar
Martin Šrajer: Suzanne Marwille
Shelley Stamp: Lois Weber
Lisa Stead: “Silent Era Fan Magazines and British Cinema Culture: Mediating Women’s Cinemagoing and Storytelling”
Ingrid Stigsdotter: “Decoration, Discrimination and ‘the Mysteries of Cinema’: Women and Film Exhibition in Sweden from the Introduction of Film to the Mid-1920s”
Victoria Sturtevant: Sarah Y. Mason | Bess Meredyth
Drake Stutesman: Natacha Rambova | Clare West
Katherine Tartaglia: Betty Burbridge
Brian Taves: Bradley King
Charles Tepperman: Marvin Breckinridge
Mirte Terpstra: Enid Lorimer| Gwladys, Marchioness of Townshend | Jackeydawra Melford
Mark Terry: May Watkis
Ned Thanhouser: Gertrude Homan Thanhouser | “All in the Family: The Thanhouser Studio”
Isak Thorsen: Emilie Sannom
Nadi Tofighian: Isabel Acuña
Kim Tomadjoglou: Elvira Notari | Dorothy Yost
Georgina Torello: “This is All About Name Dropping: Women and Uruguayan Silent Cinema in the 1910s and 1920s”
Patricia Torres San Martín: Adela Sequeyro | Elena Sánchez Valenzuela | “Writing the History of Latin American Women Working in the Silent Film Industry”
Anita Trivelli: Matilde Serao
Tom Trusky: Nell Shipman
Julia Tuñón: Adriana and Dolores Ehlers
Radha Vatsal: Madeline Brandeis | Frederica Sagor Maas |“How Women Worked in the US Silent Film Industry”
Luis Bernardo Jaime Vázquez: Cándida Beltrán Rendón
Deb Verhoeven: Dorothy Gordon | Señora Spencer
Micaela Veronesi: Renée Deliot | Elvira Giallanella
Laura Vichi: Lucie Derain | Eliane Tayar
Robert von Dassanowsky: Carmen Cartellieri | Ida Jenbach
Brigitta B. Wagner: Thea von Harbou
Kristen Anderson Wagner: Lillian Case Russell
Claudia Walkensteiner-Preschl: Louise Kolm-Fleck
Janet Walker: Margery Wilson
Gregory Waller: Cora Johnstone Best and Audrey Forfar Shippam:
S. Louisa Wei: Xie Caizhen | Esther Eng | Pearl Ing | Yang Naimei | Pu Shunqing | Helen Wang
Virginia Wright Wexman: June Mathis
Jennifer Wild: Stella F. Simon
Artemis Willis: Margaret Mayo | Mae Murray
Charles H. Williamson: Bertha Muzzy Bower
David M.J. Wood: Carmen Toscano
Panpan Yang: Fan Xuepeng
Joshua Yumibe: “French Film Colorists”
Xinyi Zhao: Tazuko Sakane