Sara Allgood
Irish actress
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Jackie “Moms” Mabley
African-American stand-up comic and actor who was active in stage, television and films from the 1910s to 1970s. She was also one of the 20th century’s first openly queer comedians, coming out as a lesbian in 1921.
Elizabeth Robins
American-Anglo stage actress
Catherine Johnson
British author and screenwriter.
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.
Yang Naimei
Early Chinese film costume designer, producer, writer and actor
Pearl Ing
Pearl Ing, or Yin Mingzhu, was the first woman to play the leading role in a film made in Shanghai, the earliest center of Chinese filmmaking.
Laura Bayley
Early comedic actress and director of the English film industry
Audrie Alspaugh
Early film critic