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Lois Weber Lois Weber was born on June 13, 1879 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA and died on November 13, 1939 in Hollywood California, USA by a Stomach ailment. Lois was a silent film director and one of the first woman directors. She started her career alongside her husband Phillips Smalley. After a couple of films that they made they went to Universal in 1916. When they arrived in Universal as one of the top director. During these years they were high profile making controversial films on the society of those years. These are a few films they made when they were in Universal, The People vs. John Doe, Hop, the Devils Brew and that’s only two of the films of the high profile directors. In 1916 Weber achieved her name as one of the top talents …show more content…

https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-lois-weber/ Lois Weber even though her high fame in silent film she didn’t make the transition to sound and her company went bankrupt in the 1920s. In 1914 and 1915 she left Universal with her husband to go work a company called Bosworth Company. When she got her first divorce from her 18 year old marriage she recovered from her emotional distress to create a silent film called A Chapter in My Life in 1923. Three years later she married a man named Harry Gantz. Lois Weber was the most consistently successful female silent film director. http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/lois-weber/ Her early career began at a film studio in Fort Lee New Jersey. What she did while she was at that film studio was she was a writer, director and actress. She started to learn the director place by the director of the film studio Herbert Blache. Her income a day was around five thousand dollars a day in 1916. With that crazy amount she was the highest paid director. In 1920 she signed a contract for $50,000 with Famous Player which was paramount Pictures back in the

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