Film Archives - Page 8 of 13

Janet Flanner

Janet Flanner, who decried the personal “I,” was a technically skilled writer who found diagramming sentences and Parisian newspapers influential.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

American poet and essayist

Gene Stratton-Porter

American author and ornithologist

Geraldine Farrar

American dramatic soprano

Kathleen O’Brien

For most of the 1950s Kathleen O’Brien was the only woman directing films in New Zealand.

Catherine Duncan

Catherine Duncan was an actor, playwright, film-maker and author who became the first woman credited as director in an Australian film since the McDonagh sisters in the 1930s.

Genni Batterham

Australian artist, author, disability rights activist and filmmaker

Gabrielle Réjane

French actress, called “the very essence of the Parisienne.”

Isobel Mercia McDonagh

In 1926, three remarkable sisters made history by becoming the first Australian women to own and run a film production company. They were also among the first to produce a talkie in Australia.

Paulette McDonagh

In 1926, three remarkable sisters made history by becoming the first Australian women to own and run a film production company. They were also among the first to produce a talkie in Australia.