Women Film Pioneers Project

Eugenie Magnus Ingleton – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

"In 1920, the Ladies’ Home Journal mentions [Eugenie Magnus] Ingleton as one of those scenario writers [at Universal] who had occasionally directed, remarking that 'Now and again a woman scenario editor would direct a picture.'"

Frances Baker Farrell, Lettice Ramsey, and Máirín Hayes – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

Happy Birthday to Lettice Ramsey! Along with her sister, she was a location scout and set designer for the silent Irish film Some Say Chance (1934).

The Brumberg Sisters – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

"Born exactly a year apart, sisters Valentina and Zinaida Brumberg worked together their entire careers in the Soviet animation industry, becoming known as the 'grandmothers of Russian animation' for their work in the fairytale genre."

Louise Kolm-Fleck – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

"Louise Veltée, later called Louise Kolm and then Louise Fleck due to her two marriages, is the first known female film producer, screenplay author, and director in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy." wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/loui... #BOTD

Paula Blackton – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

Director, film actress, screenwriter, and costume designer Paula Blackton was born on this day in 1881!

Kate Howarde – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

Happy Birthday to Kate Howarde! In 1921, she wrote, acted in, directed, and produced POSSUM PADDOCK in Australia.

Antonina Khanzhonkova – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

Happy Birthday to Antonina Khanzhonkova!

Harriet Bloch – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

#bornonthisday in 1881: Danish screenwriter Harriet Bloch!

Reading up on Diana Karenne the Russian born, actor, writer, producer & director who broke out on the Italian silent film scene during WWI. She directed 9 films, all sadly lost, but is perhaps best known for starring in CASANOVA (1929). Thanks to @wfpproject.bsky.social for the info.

May Watkis – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

"As a government official and not a filmmaker like fellow Canadian Nell Shipman, for example, May Watkis offers a productive way of expanding our notions of women’s 'behind-the-scenes' labor during the early years of film."

Marguerite Renoir – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

Happy Birthday to Marguerite Renoir! Best known as Jean Renoir’s film editor & life partner during the 1930s, her career before their collaboration has been largely overlooked.

Blanche MacIntosh – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

"...from 1912 until 1924, Blanche MacIntosh wrote twenty-eight films for [Cecil] Hepworth, and for the latter part of this period she was his chief scenario writer." wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-... #BornOnThisDay

Eliane Tayar – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

Happy Birthday to French film critic, director, and documentary filmmaker Eliane Tayar!

Bianca Virginia Camagni – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

Happy Birthday to Italian actress, producer, director, and screenwriter Bianca Virginia Camagni!

Helena Cortesina – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

Happy Birthday to Spanish film director, film company owner, actress, and producer Helena Cortesina!

Lenore Coffee – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

"As a writer called upon to correct and reformulate the work of such well-known figures as Cecil B. DeMille and Irving Thalberg, Lenore Coffee's often unacknowledged and remarkably long-lived voice is worth examining more closely." wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-... #BOTD

Daisy Sylvan – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

Daisy Sylvan—the producer, director, and star of two motion pictures, both lost—was born Elena Mazzantini in Rome #onthisday in 1874!

Hettie Gray Baker – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

Happy Birthday to Hettie Gray Baker! A film editor & more, Hettie was involved in many aspects of the film industry:

Suzanne Marwille – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

Happy Birthday to Czech screenwriter and actress Suzanne Marwille!

On Friday, July 18, Dr. Veronica Johnson will give an online presentation on the history of the Film Company of Ireland, and its co-founder Nell O’Mara Sullivan. Hosted by San Francisco Film Preserve, this event is not to be missed!

Register here: filmpreserve.org/event/online...

Elvira Giallanella – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

Elvira Giallanella, an Italian director, producer & distributor, was born on this day in 1885!

Esterina Zuccarone – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

Happy Birthday to Esterina Zuccarone! "...at the age of fourteen, she found a job at La Positiva, the development and printing section of Giovanni Pastrone’s Itala Film."

Frederica Sagor Maas – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

#HBD to screenwriter Frederica Sagor Maas! "In 1919, she took a job as assistant to the story editor at Universal in New York, and was promoted to story editor in 1923. A year later, she set off for Los Angeles to try her luck as a screenwriter."

Annette Kellerman – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

"In A Daughter of the Gods (1916), reportedly the 1st feature film to cost over a million dollars, [Annette Kellerman] again became an uncredited cowriter of the script in addition to costume designing, casting, and training hundreds of performers." wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-... #BOTD

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Alice Guy Blaché – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

Happy Birthday to Alice Guy Blaché!

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Alice B. Russell – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

Happy Birthday to Alice B. Russell! She was the second wife of Oscar Micheaux, and "played a large part in the professional life of her husband, starring in several of his films as well as helping to administer the Micheaux Film Company."

Mary Manning – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

"Mary Manning was one of a handful of women active behind the camera in Ireland’s two waves of silent film production." wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/mary... #bornonthisday

Angela Murray Gibson – Women Film Pioneers Project Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

"Angela Murray Gibson’s versatility allowed her to fill many roles during her time in the film industry, the most important of which was studio head for the Gibson Studios in Casselton, North Dakota." wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ange... #bornonthisday