A HISTORY OF SILENCE: THE CINEMA OF LOIS WEBER from hollywood wives Watch Video
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Description: In 1914, Lois Weber became one of the first female directors of feature films.nnShe was one of the first women to own her own studio.nnShe made films that directly engaged with social issues like abortion, capital punishment, birth control, and power imbalances between men and women - all at a time before women could vote.nnIn the 1910s and 1920s, she was one of Hollywood’s most powerful figures, but by the time of her death in 1939 she was almost completely forgotten and bankrupt.nnHow di
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