Eva Tanguay
Eccentric comedienne and beloved musical comedy star on the American stage
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Alice Guy-Blaché
She was a pioneer of the French and American film industries during the silent era and the first woman to have a career as a director, yet her work and career have largely been overlooked throughout history.
Olga Custodio
The first Latina U.S. military pilot
Blanche Stuart Scott
The first American woman to fly a plane in 1910
Harriet Quimby
The first American woman to earn a pilot’s license and the first woman to make a solo flight across the English Channel
Carlotta Monterey O’Neill
Once an actress with abandoned dreams of joining a convent, Carlotta Monterey O’Neill collaborated with her playwright husband Eugene O’Neill on some of his most famous work during their five years in “Tao House” in Danville, California.
Rosemary Rees
New Zealand romance novelist, actress, theatre producer and playwright.
Mary Raferty
Irish campaigning journalist and documentary maker
Greer Garson
Oscar-winning 1940s British-American actress and one of the major stars of her era under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
Elizabeth Eyre Pellet
American actress, suffragist, and state legislator in Colorado.