Ruth Baldwin
Early film director, editor and writer
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Violet Hilton
Violet and Daisy Hilton were conjoined twins who, after many years of exploitation at the hands of their adoptive mother and a corrupt manager on the show-business circuit, managed to strike out on their own and become hugely successful stars of stage, vaudeville and film in the USA.
Daisy Hilton
Violet and Daisy Hilton were conjoined twins who, after many years of exploitation at the hands of their adoptive mother and a corrupt manager on the show-business circuit, managed to strike out on their own and become hugely successful stars of stage, vaudeville and film in the USA.
Maude Adams
American early film actress
Eslanda Robeson
A staunch opponent of injustice, Eslanda found her intellectual community and political point of view in New York, where she was located in history on the eve of the Harlem Renaissance and the end of the Bolshevik revolution.
Lois Weber
Lois Weber was the leading female director-screenwriter in early Hollywood.
Bathia Stuart
She was one of the first New Zealand women to enter the male-dominated field of film-making.
Davina Whitehouse
Davina Whitehouse’s career in performance spanned 70 years, from theatre and film roles in Britain between the 1920s and the 1940s to radio, theatre, television and film roles in New Zealand from the 1950s to the 2000s.
Pat Lovell
Having produced the films Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir, 1975) and Gallipoli (Weir, 1981) Patricia Lovell is regarded as one of Australia’s most successful film producers.
Bernie Dwyer
Irish journalist, filmmaker and political activist