10.0
10.0
On the Brink
1911
Director
Lois Weber
Also known as: Mrs. Phillips Smalley, Florence Lois Weber
Directing
Nationality:United States
N/A
CommunityBiographyvia wikipedia
Florence Lois Weber (June 13, 1879 – November 13, 1939) was an American silent film director, screenwriter, producer and actress. She is identified in some historical references as among "the most important and prolific film directors in the era of silent films". Film historian Anthony Slide has also asserted, "Along with D. W. Griffith, Weber was the American cinema's first genuine auteur, a filmmaker involved in all aspects of production and one who utilized the motion picture to put across her own ideas and philosophies". Weber produced a body of work which has been compared to Griffith's in both quantity and quality and brought to the screen her concerns for humanity and social justice in an estimated 200 to 400 films, of which as few as twenty have been preserved. She has been credited by IMDb with directing 135 films, writing 114, and acting in 100. Weber was "one of the first directors to come to the attention of the censors in Hollywood's early years". Weber has been credited with pioneering the use of the split screen technique to show simultaneous action in her 1913 film Suspense. In collaboration with her first husband, Phillips Smalley, in 1913 Weber was "one of the first directors to experiment with sound", making the first sound films in the United States. She was also the first American woman to direct a full-length feature film when she and Smalley directed The Merchant of Venice in 1914, and in 1917 the first American woman director to own her own film studio. During the war years, Weber "achieved tremendous success by combining a canny commercial sense with a rare vision of cinema as a moral tool". At her zenith, "few men, before or since, have retained such absolute control over the films they have directed—and certainly no women directors have achieved the all-embracing, powerful status once held by Lois Weber".
Notable Works
Shoes
Filmography (69 movies)
8.5
8.5
Fate
1911
Director
7.5
7.5
The Rosary
1913
Director
7.1
7.1
The Women Who Run Hollywood
2016
as Self (archive footage)
7.1
7.1
Suspense.
1913
Director
7.0
7.0
Home
1919
Writer
7.0
7.0
The Dumb Girl of Portici
1916
Director
6.4
6.4
Sensation Seekers
1927
Director
6.2
6.2
The Blot
1921
Writer
6.0
6.0
From Death to Life
1911
Director
6.0
6.0
Shoes
1916
Writer
6.0
6.0
Where Are My Children?
1916
Writer
6.0
6.0
A Chapter in Her Life
1923
Screenplay
5.6
5.6
How Men Propose
1913
Producer
5.6
5.6
Hypocrites
1915
Director
5.5
5.5
The Price
1911
Director
5.3
5.3
Tarzan of the Apes
1918
Writer
5.1
5.1
Discontent
1916
Writer
5.1
5.1
Too Wise Wives
1921
Screenplay
5.0
5.0
Idle Wives
1916
Producer
4.5
4.5
The Twins
1911
Director
4.0
4.0
White Heat
1934
Director
3.0
3.0
What Do Men Want?
1921
Writer
3.0
3.0
Betty in Search of a Thrill
1915
Director
Lost by a Hair
1914
Writer
Sunshine Molly
1915
Writer
The Eye of God
1916
Writer
Hop - The Devil's Brew
1916
Screenplay
Eyes That See Not
1912
Director
False Colors
1914
Screenplay
The Spider and Her Web
1914
Director
A Heroine of '76
1911
Director
The Pursuit of Hate
1914
Director
Sherlock Holmes, Jr.
1911
as Mrs. Brown
Early Directors on Directing
2009
as Self
Alone in the World
1917
Fine Feathers
1912
Director
A Japanese Idyll
1912
Director
Lost Illusions
1911
as Grace - The Wife
The Merchant of Venice
1914
Writer
Scandal
1915
Writer
The Jew's Christmas
1913
Writer
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
1917
Producer
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1913
Screenplay
For Husbands Only
1918
Screenplay
Jewel
1915
Writer
The Flirt
1916
Director
John Needham's Double
1916
Director
The Price of a Good Time
1917
Writer
The Doctor and the Woman
1918
Writer
Borrowed Clothes
1918
Writer
When a Girl Loves
1919
Director
Forbidden
1919
Director
A Cigarette - That's All
1915
Director
Captain Courtesy
1915
Director
It's No Laughing Matter
1915
Writer
Topsy and Eva
1927
Screenplay
Wanted- A Home
1916
Producer
To Please One Woman
1920
Writer
Even as You and I
1917
Director
The Mysterious Mrs. M
1917
Writer
Saving the Family Name
1916
Writer
The People vs. John Doe
1916
Producer
Mary Regan
1919
Screenplay
What's Worth While?
1921
Director
The Angel of Broadway
1927
Director
The Marriage Clause
1926
Writer
A Midnight Romance
1919
Writer
The Troubadour's Triumph
1912
Writer
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