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.
Silent film actress, director and writer
In 1920, Lillian Gish both delivered a landmark performance in D.W. Griffith’s Way Down East and directed her sister Dorothy in Remodelling Her Husband. This was her sole director credit in a career as a screen actor that began with An Unseen Enemy in 1912 and ended with The Whales of August in 1987.
Early film director, editor and writer
The first British woman to ride a motorcycle around the world in 1982-84.
Mary Manning was one of a handful of women active behind the camera in Ireland’s two waves of silent film production.
Cuban revolutionary
Heroine of Mexican Independence
The first Latvian woman playwright.
Colombian writer