Pu Shunqing
China’s first female scriptwriter for Cupid’s Puppets (1925), a Great Wall Film Company film co-directed by her husband
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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.
Cleo Madison
Theatre and silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director active in Hollywood during the silent era.
Corona Schröter
German singer and composer
Marija Pēkšēna
The first Latvian woman playwright.
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.
Mary Cowden Clarke
English writer
Biruta Skujeniece
Biruta Skujeniece often appeared on the stage of the Latvian theatre, but she made a name for herself chiefly as an elocutionist.
Maggie Mitchell
American actress
Matilda Heron
Irish-American theatre actress