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accountants
Bessie Barriscale
Laura Bayley
Aili Kari
Gladys Rosson
Florence Turner
acting teachers
Giulia Cassini-Rizzotto
Aleksandra Khokhlova
Vera McCord
Elvira Notari
Ol’ga Rakhmanova
Emilia Saleny
Stefanía Socha
actresses
Maude Adams
Tsuru Aoki
Teresita Arce
Leah Baird
Dorothea Baird
Hettie Gray Baker
Aloha Wanderwell Baker
Bessie Barriscale
Laura Bayley
Ouida Bergère
Sarah Bernhardt
Francesca Bertini
Marian Constance Blackton
Paula Blackton
Cube Bonifant
Madeline Brandeis
Bianca Virginia Camagni
Carmen Cartellieri
Giulia Cassini-Rizzotto
Thea Červenková
Elsa Chauvel
Haydée Chikly
May Clark
Helena Cortesina
Grace Cunard
Beatrice deMille
Mimí Derba
Marie Dressler
Mrs. Sidney Drew
Gerd Egede-Nissen
Ada Egede-Nissen
Aud Egede-Nissen
Nell Emerald
Fabienne Fabrèges
Marion Fairfax
Fan Xuepeng
Dot Farley
Dorothy Farnum
Flora Finch
Cissy Fitzgerald
Helen Gardner
Gene Gauntier
Agnes Gavin
Angela Murray Gibson
Lillian Gish
Dorothy Gordon
Ethel Grandin
Corinne Griffith
Elizabeth B. Grimball
Texas Guinan
Máirín Hayes
Lydia Hayward
Gale Henry
Margaret Hepworth
Anna Hofman-Uddgren
Helen Holmes
Kate Howarde
Alice Howell
Pearl Ing
Eugenie Magnus Ingleton
Ida Jenbach
Osa Johnson
Diana Karenne
Aili Kari
Helen Keller
Annette Kellerman
Aleksandra Khokhlova
Florence Lawrence
Marion Leonard
Ray Lewis
Anita Loos
Enid Lorimer
Hope Loring
Louise Lovely
Josephine Lovett
Lottie Lyell
Mary MacLane
Jeanie Macpherson
Cleo Madison
Mary Manning
Frances Marion
Margaret Mayo
Vera McCord
Isabel McDonagh
Elizabeth McGaffey
Jackeydawra Melford
Georgette Méliès
Christiane Mendelys
Bess Meredyth
Beatriz Michelena
Dorothea Mitchell
Mary Murillo
Mae Murray
Musidora
Bedia Muvahhit
Alla Nazimova
Neyyire Neyir
Asta Nielsen
Mabel Normand
Elvira Notari
Harriet Parsons
Olga Petrova
Mary Pickford
Rosa Porten
Pu Shunqing
Ol’ga Rakhmanova
Natacha Rambova
Josephine Rector
Dorothy Davenport Reid
Lotte Reiniger
Cándida Beltrán Rendón
Marguerite Renoir
Alma Reville
Eslanda Robeson
Rosario Rodríguez de la Serna
Alice B. Russell
Emilia Saleny
Emilie Sannom
Carmen Santos
Adela Sequeyro
Nell Shipman
Stella F. Simon
Adriënne Solser
Anita Stewart
Ruth Stonehouse
Gloria Swanson
Daisy Sylvan
Constance Talmadge
Norma Talmadge
Kinuyo Tanaka
Eliane Tayar
Alice Terry
Gertrude Homan Thanhouser
Fay Tincher
Florence Turner
Eve Unsell
Elena Sánchez Valenzuela
Valda Valkyrien
Caroline van Dommelen
Cleo de Verberena
Thea von Harbou
Helen Wang
Lule Warrenton
Lois Weber
Pearl White
Maria P. Williams
Kathlyn Williams
Elsie Jane Wilson
Margery Wilson
Marion E. Wong
Xie Caizhen
Yang Naimei
Clara Kimball Young
adapters
Clara Beranger
Ouida Bergère
Marguerite Bertsch
Beulah Marie Dix
Winnifred Eaton
Dorothy Farnum
Elinor Glyn
María Luz Morales Godoy
Ruth Goetz
Lydia Hayward
Eugenie Magnus Ingleton
Ida Jenbach
Agnes Christine Johnston
Sonya Levien
Josephine Lovett
Blanche MacIntosh
Mary Manning
Frances Marion
Sarah Y. Mason
June Mathis
Margaret Mayo
Vera McCord
Bess Meredyth
Lorna Moon
Mary Murillo
Elvira Notari
Olga Printzlau
Ol’ga Rakhmanova
Lillian Case Russell
Wanda Tuchock
Margaret Turnbull
Eve Unsell
Thea von Harbou
Dorothy Yost
agents
Mabel Condon
Beatrice deMille
Eslanda Robeson
Fanchon Royer
amateur camera operators
Laura Bayley
amateur filmmaker
Marvin Breckinridge
Dorothea Mitchell
amateur filmmaking club co-founder
Mary Manning
Dorothea Mitchell
animal trainers
Helen Holmes
Jane Murfin
film animators
Valentina Brumberg
Zinaida Brumberg
Helena Smith Dayton
Lotte Reiniger
anthropologist
Kathleen Romoli
art directors
Isabel Acuña
Dorothy Gordon
Lottie Lyell
Phyllis McDonagh
Alla Nazimova
Natacha Rambova
Gabriela von Bussenius Vega
artistic consultants
Marguerite Viel
artistic council member
Valentina Brumberg
Zinaida Brumberg
arts magazine editor
Mary Manning
assistant directors
Ruth Ann Baldwin
Elsa Chauvel
Gurly Drangsholt
Alice Guy Blaché
Aleksandra Khokhlova
Jane Loring
Mary Manning
Pu Shunqing
Lotte Reiniger
Alma Reville
Juliet Barrett Rublee
Tazuko Sakane
Eliane Tayar
assistant managers
Maria P. Williams
assistant producers
Elsa Chauvel
assistant sales managers
Marguerite Viel
assistant stage managers
Máirín Hayes
booking clerks
Mona Donaldson
business co-owners
Enid Lorimer
Ada Aline Urban
business owners
Mabel Condon
business partners
May Clark
Marie de Kerstrat
Margaret Hepworth
Enid Lorimer
Isabel McDonagh
Phyllis McDonagh
Paulette McDonagh
Caroline Frances Pugliese
Señora Spencer
Ada Aline Urban
camera operators
Laura Bayley
Marvin Breckinridge
May Clark
Adriana Ehlers
Dolores Ehlers
Georgette Méliès
Dorothea Mitchell
Audrey Forfar Shippam
camerawoman
Angela Murray Gibson
carpenters
May Clark
casting directors
Isabel Acuña
Annette Kellerman
Leila Lewis
Louise Lovely
censors
Hettie Gray Baker
Mona Donaldson
Adriana Ehlers
Marie Louise Gagner
Fernanda Nissen
censorship representatives
Hettie Gray Baker
chief accountants
Aili Kari
chief scenario editors
Marguerite Bertsch
Beta Breuil
Louella Parsons
chief scenario writers
Josephine Rector
chorus girls
Dorothy Gordon
Mae Murray
ciné-club co-founder
Lucie Derain
cinema proprietors
Adelina Barrasa
Renée Deliot
Caroline Frances Pugliese
Señora Spencer
cinematographers
Maude Adams
Aloha Wanderwell Baker
Jessica Elvira Borthwick
Marvin Breckinridge
May Clark
Angela Murray Gibson
Jenny Gilbertson
Osa Johnson
Nancy Naumburg
Lotte Reiniger
Henderina Victoria Scott
Stella F. Simon
co-directors
Nina Agadzhanova-Shutko
Marguerite Bertsch
Valentina Brumberg
Zinaida Brumberg
Mrs. George Randolph Chester
Grace Cunard
Mimí Derba
Mrs. Sidney Drew
Esther Eng
Gene Gauntier
Eloyce King Patrick Gist
Alice Guy Blaché
Kate Howarde
Julia Crawford Ivers
Annette Kellerman
Aleksandra Khokhlova
Louise Kolm-Fleck
Cleo Madison
Frances Marion
Bess Meredyth
Jane Murfin
Musidora
Nancy Naumburg
Mabel Normand
Elvira Notari
Ida May Park
Rosa Porten
Ol’ga Rakhmanova
Lotte Reiniger
Nell Shipman
Adriënne Solser
Eliane Tayar
Alice Terry
Wanda Tuchock
Caroline van Dommelen
Marguerite Viel
Helen Wang
co-editors
Nina Agadzhanova-Shutko
Ol’ga Rakhmanova
co-producers
May Clark
Mrs. Sidney Drew
Eloyce King Patrick Gist
Alice Guy Blaché
Helen Holmes
Louise Kolm-Fleck
Anita Loos
Cleo Madison
Jane Murfin
Musidora
co-screenwriters
Nina Agadzhanova-Shutko
Ruth Ann Baldwin
Carmen Cartellieri
Elsa Chauvel
Mrs. George Randolph Chester
Sada Cowan
Beatrice deMille
Gurly Drangsholt
Mrs. Sidney Drew
Eloyce King Patrick Gist
Ruth Goetz
Dorothy Gordon
Alice Guy Blaché
Anna Hofman-Uddgren
Kate Howarde
Julia Crawford Ivers
Agnes Christine Johnston
Annette Kellerman
Louise Kolm-Fleck
Sonya Levien
Anita Loos
Enid Lorimer
Louise Lovely
Cleo Madison
Sarah Y. Mason
June Mathis
Bess Meredyth
Nancy Naumburg
Olga Petrova
Natacha Rambova
Katri Viita
Anzia Yezierska
co-writers
Mrs. George Randolph Chester
comediennes
Marie Dressler
Flora Finch
Alice Howell
Bess Meredyth
Mabel Normand
Adriënne Solser
Fay Tincher
company co-directors
Nell Emerald
Gene Gauntier
Ellen O’Mara Sullivan
Ada Aline Urban
company directors
Mabel Condon
Nell Emerald
Marion Fairfax
Gene Gauntier
Corinne Griffith
Texas Guinan
Beatriz Michelena
Ellen O’Mara Sullivan
Mary Pickford
Anita Stewart
Eve Unsell
Ada Aline Urban
Marion E. Wong
company executives
May Clark
composers
Corinne Griffith
Alice Smythe Jay
Christiane Mendelys
Cándida Beltrán Rendón
Anita Stewart
conductor
Greta Håkansson
consultants
Valentina Brumberg
Zinaida Brumberg
Elinor Glyn
Marie Stopes
Marguerite Viel
continuities
Elsa Chauvel
Sada Cowan
Sonya Levien
Sarah Y. Mason
Bess Meredyth
Alma Reville
Rose Smith
Eve Unsell
continuity girls
Lenore Coffee
costume designers
Isabel Acuña
Paula Blackton
Elsa Chauvel
May Clark
Lucy Duff-Gordon
Annette Kellerman
Ray Lewis
Alla Nazimova
Natacha Rambova
Florence Turner
Clare West
Marion E. Wong
Yang Naimei
critics
Iris Barry
Cube Bonifant
Thea Červenková
Mabel Condon
Lucie Derain
María Luz Morales Godoy
Kate Howarde
Caroline Lejeune
Ray Lewis
Leila Lewis
Hope Loring
Mary Manning
Christiane Mendelys
Mary Lawton Metcalfe
Fernanda Nissen
Fanchon Royer
Matilde Serao
Eliane Tayar
Beatrice Maude Tildesley
Elena Sánchez Valenzuela
Gabriela von Bussenius Vega
dancer
Cissy Fitzgerald
Ray Lewis
dialogue director
Elsa Chauvel
dialogue writers
Marguerite Viel
directing teacher
Aleksandra Khokhlova
directors
Nina Agadzhanova-Shutko
Alicia Armstrong de Vicuña
Dorothy Arzner
Aloha Wanderwell Baker
Ruth Ann Baldwin
Sarah Bernhardt
Francesca Bertini
Marguerite Bertsch
Paula Blackton
Madeline Brandeis
Marvin Breckinridge
Beta Breuil
Valentina Brumberg
Zinaida Brumberg
Bianca Virginia Camagni
Giulia Cassini-Rizzotto
Thea Červenková
Elsa Chauvel
Mrs. George Randolph Chester
Helena Cortesina
Grace Cunard
Helena Smith Dayton
Lucie Derain
Mimí Derba
Gurly Drangsholt
Mrs. Sidney Drew
Lillian Ducey
Adriana Ehlers
Dolores Ehlers
Esther Eng
Fabienne Fabrèges
Marion Fairfax
Dot Farley
Helen Gardner
Gene Gauntier
Elvira Giallanella
Angela Murray Gibson
Jenny Gilbertson
Lillian Gish
Eloyce King Patrick Gist
Elinor Glyn
Elizabeth B. Grimball
Alice Guy Blaché
Anna Hofman-Uddgren
Helen Holmes
Kate Howarde
Zora Neale Hurston
Eugenie Magnus Ingleton
Julia Crawford Ivers
Ida Jenbach
Osa Johnson
Diana Karenne
Annette Kellerman
Aleksandra Khokhlova
Louise Kolm-Fleck
Jane Loring
Louise Lovely
Lottie Lyell
Jeanie Macpherson
Cleo Madison
Mary Manning
Frances Marion
June Mathis
Vera McCord
Paulette McDonagh
Jackeydawra Melford
Bess Meredyth
Dorothea Mitchell
Jane Murfin
Musidora
Nancy Naumburg
Alla Nazimova
Mabel Normand
Elvira Notari
Ruth Bryan Owen
Ida May Park
Harriet Parsons
Elizabeth Chevalier Pickett
Rosa Porten
Pu Shunqing
Ol’ga Rakhmanova
Dorothy Davenport Reid
Lotte Reiniger
Cándida Beltrán Rendón
Alma Reville
Rosario Rodríguez de la Serna
Juliet Barrett Rublee
Tazuko Sakane
Emilia Saleny
Carmen Santos
Adela Sequeyro
Nell Shipman
Esfir Shub
Stella F. Simon
Adriënne Solser
Tressie Souders
Ruth Stonehouse
Daisy Sylvan
Kinuyo Tanaka
Eliane Tayar
Alice Terry
Fay Tincher
Carmen Toscano
Wanda Tuchock
Florence Turner
Elena Sánchez Valenzuela
Caroline van Dommelen
Cleo de Verberena
Marguerite Viel
Gabriela von Bussenius Vega
Thea von Harbou
Helen Wang
Lule Warrenton
Lois Weber
Kathlyn Williams
Elsie Jane Wilson
Margery Wilson
Marion E. Wong
Xie Caizhen
distribution company founder
Encarnacion Rosa Scott
Edna Williams
distribution company managing director
Encarnacion Rosa Scott
distribution company owner
Edna Williams
distributors
Renée Deliot
Esther Eng
Elvira Giallanella
Ray Lewis
Elvira Notari
Ellen O’Mara Sullivan
Mary Pickford
Encarnacion Rosa Scott
Adriënne Solser
Helen Wang
Maria P. Williams
Edna Williams
documentary makers
Aloha Wanderwell Baker
Thea Červenková
Adriana Ehlers
Dolores Ehlers
Jenny Gilbertson
Paulette McDonagh
Elizabeth Chevalier Pickett
Esfir Shub
Eliane Tayar
Carmen Toscano
Wanda Tuchock
Elena Sánchez Valenzuela
dramaturges
Ida Jenbach
dressmakers
Dorothy Gordon
editors
Nina Agadzhanova-Shutko
Dorothy Arzner
Hettie Gray Baker
Aloha Wanderwell Baker
Ruth Ann Baldwin
Anne Bauchens
Ouida Bergère
Marguerite Bertsch
Margaret Booth
Madeline Brandeis
Marvin Breckinridge
Beta Breuil
Valentina Brumberg
Zinaida Brumberg
Virgínia de Castro e Almeida
Mrs. George Randolph Chester
Haydée Chikly
Kate Corbaley
Lucie Derain
Mona Donaldson
Winifred Dunn
Winnifred Eaton
Marion Fairfax
Jenny Gilbertson
Eloyce King Patrick Gist
Máirín Hayes
Lydia Hayward
Katharine Hilliker
Eugenie Magnus Ingleton
Julia Crawford Ivers
Viola Lawrence
Sonya Levien
Jane Loring
Louise Lovely
Lottie Lyell
Frederica Sagor Maas
June Mathis
Bess Meredyth
Dorothea Mitchell
Irene Morra
Alla Nazimova
Mary O’Connor
Ida May Park
Louella Parsons
Ol’ga Rakhmanova
Josephine Rector
Marguerite Renoir
Alma Reville
Tazuko Sakane
Blanche Sewell
Nell Shipman
Esfir Shub
Rose Smith
Gertrude Homan Thanhouser
Carmen Toscano
Eve Unsell
Helen Wang
Esterina Zuccarone
editorial directors
Marion Fairfax
entrepreneur
Teresita Arce
Helena Cortesina
Beatrice deMille
Elizabeth B. Grimball
Kate Howarde
Alice Smythe Jay
Enid Lorimer
Ol’ga Rakhmanova
Lule Warrenton
equipment sales
Adriana Ehlers
Dolores Ehlers
ethnographic filmmakers
Aloha Wanderwell Baker
Adriana Ehlers
Dolores Ehlers
Zora Neale Hurston
Osa Johnson
Kathleen Romoli
executives
Gertrude Homan Thanhouser
executive producers
June Mathis
Caroline Frances Pugliese
Gertrude Homan Thanhouser
executive secretaries
Gladys Rosson
exhibitors
Adelina Barrasa
Josephine Clement
Marie de Kerstrat
Anna Hofman-Uddgren
Ray Lewis
Caroline Frances Pugliese
Señora Spencer
experimental cinematographers
Maude Adams
Henderina Victoria Scott
Stella F. Simon
extras
Leah Baird
Cube Bonifant
Elinor Glyn
Dorothy Gordon
Diana Karenne
Hope Loring
Bess Meredyth
Fanchon Royer
Eliane Tayar
Alice Terry
family business partners
May Clark
Marie de Kerstrat
Margaret Hepworth
Isabel McDonagh
Phyllis McDonagh
Paulette McDonagh
Caroline Frances Pugliese
Señora Spencer
family film business partners
May Clark
Isabel McDonagh
Phyllis McDonagh
Paulette McDonagh
Caroline Frances Pugliese
fan magazine editors
Gladys Hall
fan magazine writers
Gladys Hall
film accompanists
Nina Agadzhanova-Shutko
Hazel Burnett
Greta Håkansson
Alice Smythe Jay
film actresses
Tsuru Aoki
Teresita Arce
Leah Baird
Dorothea Baird
Hettie Gray Baker
Aloha Wanderwell Baker
Bessie Barriscale
Laura Bayley
Ouida Bergère
Sarah Bernhardt
Francesca Bertini
Marian Constance Blackton
Paula Blackton
Cube Bonifant
Madeline Brandeis
Bianca Virginia Camagni
Carmen Cartellieri
Giulia Cassini-Rizzotto
Thea Červenková
Elsa Chauvel
Haydée Chikly
May Clark
Helena Cortesina
Grace Cunard
Mimí Derba
Marie Dressler
Mrs. Sidney Drew
Gerd Egede-Nissen
Ada Egede-Nissen
Aud Egede-Nissen
Nell Emerald
Fabienne Fabrèges
Fan Xuepeng
Dot Farley
Dorothy Farnum
Flora Finch
Cissy Fitzgerald
Helen Gardner
Gene Gauntier
Agnes Gavin
Angela Murray Gibson
Lillian Gish
Dorothy Gordon
Ethel Grandin
Corinne Griffith
Texas Guinan
Máirín Hayes
Lydia Hayward
Gale Henry
Margaret Hepworth
Anna Hofman-Uddgren
Helen Holmes
Kate Howarde
Alice Howell
Pearl Ing
Osa Johnson
Diana Karenne
Aili Kari
Helen Keller
Annette Kellerman
Aleksandra Khokhlova
Florence Lawrence
Marion Leonard
Anita Loos
Hope Loring
Louise Lovely
Josephine Lovett
Lottie Lyell
Mary MacLane
Jeanie Macpherson
Cleo Madison
Mary Manning
Frances Marion
Margaret Mayo
Vera McCord
Isabel McDonagh
Jackeydawra Melford
Georgette Méliès
Christiane Mendelys
Bess Meredyth
Beatriz Michelena
Dorothea Mitchell
Mae Murray
Musidora
Bedia Muvahhit
Alla Nazimova
Neyyire Neyir
Asta Nielsen
Mabel Normand
Elvira Notari
Harriet Parsons
Olga Petrova
Mary Pickford
Rosa Porten
Pu Shunqing
Ol’ga Rakhmanova
Natacha Rambova
Josephine Rector
Dorothy Davenport Reid
Lotte Reiniger
Cándida Beltrán Rendón
Marguerite Renoir
Alma Reville
Eslanda Robeson
Rosario Rodríguez de la Serna
Alice B. Russell
Emilia Saleny
Emilie Sannom
Carmen Santos
Adela Sequeyro
Nell Shipman
Stella F. Simon
Adriënne Solser
Anita Stewart
Ruth Stonehouse
Gloria Swanson
Daisy Sylvan
Constance Talmadge
Norma Talmadge
Kinuyo Tanaka
Eliane Tayar
Alice Terry
Gertrude Homan Thanhouser
Fay Tincher
Florence Turner
Elena Sánchez Valenzuela
Valda Valkyrien
Caroline van Dommelen
Cleo de Verberena
Helen Wang
Lule Warrenton
Lois Weber
Pearl White
Maria P. Williams
Kathlyn Williams
Elsie Jane Wilson
Margery Wilson
Marion E. Wong
Xie Caizhen
Yang Naimei
Clara Kimball Young
film censors
Mona Donaldson
Marie Louise Gagner
Fernanda Nissen
film censorship board members
Adriana Ehlers
film colorists
Haydée Chikly
Marguerite Renoir
film company board members
Katri Viita
film company founding partners
Bessie Barriscale
Thea Červenková
Mimí Derba
Ethel Grandin
Louise Kolm-Fleck
Margaret Mayo
Ellen O’Mara Sullivan
Mary Pickford
Carmen Santos
Gertrude Homan Thanhouser
Cleo de Verberena
film company managing directors
Mary Murillo
film company owners
Maude Adams
Madeline Brandeis
Virgínia de Castro e Almeida
Thea Červenková
Helena Cortesina
Renée Deliot
Aud Egede-Nissen
Fan Xuepeng
Flora Finch
Cissy Fitzgerald
Helen Gardner
Elvira Giallanella
Angela Murray Gibson
Elinor Glyn
Alice Guy Blaché
Alice Smythe Jay
Diana Karenne
Asta Nielsen
Elvira Notari
Ellen O’Mara Sullivan
Olga Petrova
Rosario Rodríguez de la Serna
Adela Sequeyro
Nell Shipman
Adriënne Solser
Fay Tincher
Florence Turner
Cleo de Verberena
Lois Weber
Yang Naimei
film company shareholder
Encarnacion Rosa Scott
film company treasurer
Isabel Acuña
film company vice presidents
Isabel Acuña
film critics
Iris Barry
Cube Bonifant
Thea Červenková
Mabel Condon
Lucie Derain
María Luz Morales Godoy
Caroline Lejeune
Ray Lewis
Leila Lewis
Mary Manning
Christiane Mendelys
Mary Lawton Metcalfe
Fanchon Royer
Matilde Serao
Eliane Tayar
Beatrice Maude Tildesley
Elena Sánchez Valenzuela
Gabriela von Bussenius Vega
film curator
Iris Barry
Mary Lawton Metcalfe
film cutters
Dorothy Arzner
Aloha Wanderwell Baker
Margaret Booth
Haydée Chikly
Mona Donaldson
Julia Crawford Ivers
Viola Lawrence
Jane Loring
Bess Meredyth
Irene Morra
Blanche Sewell
film dealers
Encarnacion Rosa Scott
film historians
María Luz Morales Godoy
film magazine editor
Neyyire Neyir
Fanchon Royer
film magazine writer
Mabel Condon
film music company owner
Alice Smythe Jay
film printing company managing director
Encarnacion Rosa Scott
film renters
Encarnacion Rosa Scott
film scholars
Mary Lawton Metcalfe
Frances Taylor Patterson
film society co-founder
Lucie Derain
Mary Manning
Dorothea Mitchell
Beatrice Maude Tildesley
film society secretary
Mary Manning
Beatrice Maude Tildesley
film theorists
Mary Lawton Metcalfe
filmmaker
Aloha Wanderwell Baker
Marvin Breckinridge
Thea Červenková
Adriana Ehlers
Dolores Ehlers
Jenny Gilbertson
Zora Neale Hurston
Osa Johnson
Paulette McDonagh
Dorothea Mitchell
Elizabeth Chevalier Pickett
Kathleen Romoli
Audrey Forfar Shippam
Esfir Shub
Eliane Tayar
Carmen Toscano
Wanda Tuchock
Elena Sánchez Valenzuela
forewoman
Esterina Zuccarone
gossip columnists
Louella Parsons
government department heads
Adriana Ehlers
Dolores Ehlers
government film agency directors
May Watkis
guild co-founders
Adele S. Buffington
Ida Jenbach
Jane Murfin
guild shareholder
Mary O’Connor
head of productions
Gurly Drangsholt
head of studio research department
Elizabeth McGaffey
historians
María Luz Morales Godoy
Kathleen Romoli
illustrator
Lotte Reiniger
independent exhibitors
Marie de Kerstrat
international women's organizations film correspondents
Beatrice Maude Tildesley
inventor
Alice Smythe Jay
investor
Pearl Ing
Marguerite Viel
journalists
Nina Agadzhanova-Shutko
Iris Barry
Marvin Breckinridge
Thea Červenková
Haydée Chikly
Mabel Condon
Helena Smith Dayton
Winnifred Eaton
Emma Gendron
Elinor Glyn
María Luz Morales Godoy
Ruth Goetz
Gladys Hall
Katharine Hilliker
Drusilla Dunjee Houston
Ida Jenbach
Ray Lewis
Leila Lewis
Mary Manning
Phyllis McDonagh
Elizabeth McGaffey
Mary Lawton Metcalfe
Neyyire Neyir
Fernanda Nissen
Louella Parsons
Harriet Parsons
Rosa Porten
Natacha Rambova
Ángela Ramos de Rotalde
Adela Rogers St. Johns
Fanchon Royer
Adela Sequeyro
Matilde Serao
Eliane Tayar
Beatrice Maude Tildesley
Elena Sánchez Valenzuela
Caroline van Dommelen
Gabriela von Bussenius Vega
Marija Jurić Zagorka
laboratory workers
May Clark
Adriana Ehlers
Dolores Ehlers
Esterina Zuccarone
lecturers
Aloha Wanderwell Baker
Cora Johnstone Best
Jessica Elvira Borthwick
Alice Guy Blaché
Osa Johnson
Mary Lawton Metcalfe
Maria P. Williams
lighting technology engineers
Maude Adams
literary advisor
Winnifred Eaton
location scout
Frances Baker Farrell
Lettice Ramsey
magazine editor
Mabel Condon
Gladys Hall
Ray Lewis
Mary Manning
Neyyire Neyir
Fanchon Royer
make-up supervisor
Isabel Acuña
Elsa Chauvel
managers
Josephine Clement
Marie de Kerstrat
Georgette Méliès
Mary O’Connor
Maria P. Williams
metalworker
Esterina Zuccarone
miscellaneous crew
Mary Manning
motion picture exhibitors
Adelina Barrasa
Josephine Clement
Marie de Kerstrat
Caroline Frances Pugliese
Señora Spencer
movie theatre ticket cashiers
Adele S. Buffington
music hall performers
Nell Emerald
Musidora
Florence Turner
Pearl White
musical comedy actresses
Dot Farley
Kate Howarde
Bess Meredyth
Olga Petrova
Adriënne Solser
musicians
Nina Agadzhanova-Shutko
Hazel Burnett
Mimí Derba
Corinne Griffith
Greta Håkansson
Drusilla Dunjee Houston
Alice Smythe Jay
Christiane Mendelys
Beatriz Michelena
Cándida Beltrán Rendón
Alice B. Russell
Anita Stewart
Edna Williams
newspaper editors
María Luz Morales Godoy
newsreel camerawoman
Angela Murray Gibson
nonfiction filmmaker
Audrey Forfar Shippam
novelists
Gertrude Atherton
Sarah Bernhardt
Bertha Muzzy Bower
Lenore Coffee
Beulah Marie Dix
Winnifred Eaton
Elinor Glyn
Ruth Goetz
Zora Neale Hurston
Anita Loos
Gwladys, Marchioness of Townshend
Bess Meredyth
Lorna Moon
Elizabeth Chevalier Pickett
Rosa Porten
Adela Rogers St. Johns
Anita Stewart
Gabriela von Bussenius Vega
Thea von Harbou
Anzia Yezierska
Dorothy Yost
office managers
Aili Kari
original story writer
painters
Sarah Bernhardt
Helena Smith Dayton
pantomime
Christiane Mendelys
personal assistants
Katharine Hilliker
Zora Neale Hurston
photographers
Aloha Wanderwell Baker
Jessica Elvira Borthwick
Madeline Brandeis
Marvin Breckinridge
Adriana Ehlers
Dolores Ehlers
Osa Johnson
Nancy Naumburg
Lettice Ramsey
Audrey Forfar Shippam
Stella F. Simon
play brokers
Beatrice deMille
play readers
Elizabeth McGaffey
Eve Unsell
playwrights
Thea Červenková
Lenore Coffee
Sada Cowan
Beatrice deMille
Beulah Marie Dix
Marion Fairfax
Emma Gendron
Elizabeth B. Grimball
Katharine Hilliker
Kate Howarde
Zora Neale Hurston
Agnes Christine Johnston
Bradley King
Ray Lewis
Anita Loos
Mary Manning
Gwladys, Marchioness of Townshend
Margaret Mayo
Lorna Moon
Jane Murfin
Nancy Naumburg
Olga Printzlau
Pu Shunqing
Natacha Rambova
Carmen Toscano
Margaret Turnbull
Caroline van Dommelen
Gabriela von Bussenius Vega
poets
Ray Lewis
Adela Sequeyro
Carmen Toscano
preservationists
Iris Barry
Carmen Toscano
Elena Sánchez Valenzuela
producers
Isabel Acuña
Tsuru Aoki
Leah Baird
Aloha Wanderwell Baker
Bessie Barriscale
Sarah Bernhardt
Francesca Bertini
Madeline Brandeis
Beta Breuil
Bianca Virginia Camagni
Carmen Cartellieri
Giulia Cassini-Rizzotto
Virgínia de Castro e Almeida
Thea Červenková
Elsa Chauvel
May Clark
Helena Cortesina
Helena Smith Dayton
Mimí Derba
Marie Dressler
Mrs. Sidney Drew
Aud Egede-Nissen
Adriana Ehlers
Dolores Ehlers
Nell Emerald
Esther Eng
Marion Fairfax
Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project
