Elsie Waters
As ‘Gert and Daisy’, the Waters sisters became stalwarts of seaside variety shows, music halls, Royal Variety performances, and the occasional film, although radio was where they found a natural home and made their best work.
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Laura Bayley
Early comedic actress and director of the English film industry
Pu Shunqing
China’s first female scriptwriter for Cupid’s Puppets (1925), a Great Wall Film Company film co-directed by her husband
Cleo Madison
Theatre and silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director active in Hollywood during the silent era.
Mary Manning
Mary Manning was one of a handful of women active behind the camera in Ireland’s two waves of silent film production.
Marija Pēkšēna
The first Latvian woman playwright.
Corona Schröter
German singer and composer
Mary Pearse
Co-founded the Leinster Stage Society, for which she wrote some original pieces and adapted some Dickens for the stage. They had moderate success until a calamitous run at the Cork opera house in 1912.
Biruta Skujeniece
Biruta Skujeniece often appeared on the stage of the Latvian theatre, but she made a name for herself chiefly as an elocutionist.
Mary Cowden Clarke
English writer