Esther Eng
Early Chinese-American filmmaker
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Helen Wang
Early Chinese film producer, editor and director
Pu Shunqing
China’s first female scriptwriter for Cupid’s Puppets (1925), a Great Wall Film Company film co-directed by her husband
Xie Caizhen
Caizhen Xie is regarded by several existing sources as the first female director of Chinese cinema who worked in China.
Laura Bayley
Early comedic actress and director of the English film industry
Elsie Wilson
Silent film actor, director and writer
Ida May Park
The 1916 Motion Picture News Studio Directory credits Los Angeles native Ida May Park with twelve years of stage experience as a “leading woman in support of well-known stars” and with screen experience at Pathé and the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, where she was then employed as a scenario writer.
Kathlyn Williams
Silent film actress, director and writer
Lillian Gish
In 1920, Lillian Gish both delivered a landmark performance in D.W. Griffith’s Way Down East and directed her sister Dorothy in Remodelling Her Husband. This was her sole director credit in a career as a screen actor that began with An Unseen Enemy in 1912 and ended with The Whales of August in 1987.
Ruth Baldwin
Early film director, editor and writer