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.

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Mary Manning

Mary Manning was one of a handful of women active behind the camera in Ireland’s two waves of silent film production.

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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.

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