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Lois Weber began film work as an actress, then soon began also writing and directing films. She has been referred to as "the most important female director the American film industry has known". Best known for her hard-hitting films that address social issues, she continued making films into the 1920s until she lost favor with motion picture audiences.
Total trailers found: 70
04 May 1919
Mary Regan is the daughter of a gentleman crook and an heiress. Although she has received a good upbringing, she refuses to marry Robert Clifford for fear of damaging his career as a city official.
05 June 1916
Olaf writes his memoirs, before his execution. He tells of his life as a struggling farmer when Renie, stranded in the village, stays one night in his home and Olaf falls in love with her.
04 March 1918
The mysterious "K" takes a humble job and falls in love with his landlady's daughter, Sidney Page. Sidney discourages her boyish admirer, Joe Drummond, and seeks training as a nurse.
14 March 1912
A self-centred wealthy woman is transformed after she is confronted with the harsh reality of the living conditions endured by the employees of her husband's mill.
02 October 1927
Babe Scott, a cabaret dancer who is constantly searching for sensational material to shock her customers, conceives of burlesquing a Salvation Army girl and attends mission meetings on the East Side for atmosphere.
17 December 1914
Famed actor Lloyd Phillips blames his infant daughter Dixie for her mother’s death in childbirth, leaving her in the care of his housekeeper, Mrs.
18 March 1915
A woman known as Sunshine Molly gets a job in an oil field, and clashes with a belligerent employee named "Bull" Forrest.
01 April 1917
Carillo and his wife Selma are devoted to each other. As a sculptor, Carillo has achieved the qualities of honor and love until the Devil seeks to overturn these accomplishments by sending his imps Lust, Drink and Self Pity to the artist's home.
16 April 1916
Walton, the District Attorney, yearns to have children. Soon after defending an author on trial for publishing indecent literature, Walton discovers a secret his wife and her socialite friends have been hiding from him.
18 December 1913
Early Lois Weber film. Isaac and his faithful wife, Rachel, deplore that in America their children are forced to work on the Jewish Sabbath.
10 July 1915
The lives of a stenographer and her boss are thrown into turmoil by reckless gossip.
01 September 1918
A sheltered young woman began a romance with a playboy, under the mistaken assumption that they'd get married.
14 June 1914
Diana Grave's husband has left her, preferring any life to that of living with a woman who is not congenial to him.
06 July 1913
Abandoned by her maidservant in an isolated country house, a mother must protect herself and her baby from an invading tramp while her husband races home in a stolen car to save them.
05 February 1917
A depressed man grows to love life just as his fortune teller's predictions become dire.
08 June 1911
A chemist named Aratus invents a concoction that will turn creatures to stone, but only realizes the dangers of his creation when his wife falls victim to it.
10 March 1919
Marie, a hotel maid, falls in love with millionaire's son Roger, but Roger cannot marry her because of her inferior station and his unwillingness to make his family unhappy thereby.
04 September 1921
Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and plentiful food, while the Griggses have hardly any.
21 March 1927
The prohibition is in full swing and Egypt Hagen, a new woman, is the constant subject of controversy in her religious small town.
30 January 1916
Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
02 February 1912
The story of a male painter who rises to fame after completing two portraits of his maid, a woman who later becomes his companion.
01 January 1913
Alleged silent short adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel, first mentioned in a 1966 copy of Films In Review.
14 January 1915
The story of a ruddy-cheeked rural postman who dabbles in poetry-writing on the side. He utilizes his hobby to spread a bit of sunshine throughout the village, at one point reuniting a long-estranged family.
26 June 1916
A young working girl, struggling to support her family on her meager salary, desperately wishes for a new pair of shoes.
26 March 1914
The story concerns the reformation of a fast woman who runs a gambling establishment. Her one fear is of death and her regeneration is brought about.
17 September 1923
Jewel stays with her grizzled, angry grandfather while her parents are overseas on business. Family squabbling is brought to heel through love and understanding from Jewel's pure love for others and trust in Divine Love.
16 May 2016
The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years.
04 November 1917
A poor shopgirl is offered a "good time" for a week by the son of her employer. She accepts, but the offer is misunderstood by her brother, who informs the girl's parents of her "fling.
22 June 1911
A 1911 silent drama film written and directed by Edwin S. Porter and Lois Weber. Starring Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley, and Charles De Forrest.
22 May 1921
An insecure wife fears her husband may be straying back to an old flame.
16 September 1916
Characters in the film attend a movie titled 'Life’s Mirror', where they see parallel, cautionary versions of their own lives.
31 August 1919
A young woman of humble origins hides her family's lack of wealth and prestige from her boarding school friends.
25 January 1916
Ed Brown plays a old war veteran tired of living in a veterans' home and decides to move in with his wealthy nephew.
03 May 1913
Haunting and hypnotic, this artistic gem recounts the lyrics from a popular 1898 song of the same name.
28 June 1914
A group of jealous men conspire to defeat a romantic rival who has captured the attention of all of the ladies at a summer hotel.
03 January 1917
Bobby's mother dies and leaves him to care for the baby.
20 July 1911
Little Sherlock Holmes, Jr., reads the doughty doings of his hero-god, and at once determines to become a detective himself.
30 August 1915
When her husband dies and leaves her penniless, Mrs. Lawrence Evringham moves in with her wealthy but grim father-in-law and schemes to marry Eloise, her daughter, to the rich Dr.
13 May 1917
A doctor's wife is arrested for educating impoverished women about birth control.
27 January 1918
A female ape takes to mothering the orphaned boy (Tarzan) and raises him over the course of many years until a rescue mission is finally launched and the search party combs the jungle for the long-time missing Lord Greystoke.
10 April 1916
Although he has been appointed to guard the fortune of young Thomas Creighton, the unscrupulous Lord John Needham decides to spend all of it after Tom runs away.
20 January 1915
The story of St. Gabriel, who was killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Purity, who is also represented by a ghostly naked girl that flits through the film.
06 July 1911
Jack Norton had traveled the downgrade, had transgressed the laws of man, had trespassed the forbidden, and paid the penalty.
01 January 2009
There were more women directors before 1920 than at any other time in history. The first director to put a narrative story on celluloid was, Alice Guy Blaché in 1896.
26 July 1927
Topsy, a Black slave girl who "jes' growed" is auctioned but nobody will bid. A young girl named Eva purchases Topsy for a nickel.
11 September 1916
A chorus girl gains infamy after the suicide of her beau.
08 September 1919
Fred Worthington, a disillusioned New York businessman, settles down in the country with his childhood sweetheart "Maddie" Irwin.
26 March 1916
Cora Madison, the town flirt, delights in making men love her and then dropping them, so when newcomer Valentine Corliss arrives, she views him as just another potential victim.
19 July 1913
Three men in succession propose marriage to Grace Darling; she accepts all! Since they are roommates, the three discover their problem in short order; when they return for an explanation, they're in for a surprise.
02 October 1916
Mina Rogers (Mary MacLaren) is unfairly cast out into the cruel, cruel world by her crotchety old uncle.
14 February 1916
Lydia Jansen is happily married to a young customs inspector, but she harbors a dark secret. She is addicted to smoking opium or in slang parlance “hop.
04 November 1918
A pretty but poor girl leaves the young boy who loves her for a rich playboy who she believes will take care of her, but the wealthy cad has other plans for her.
15 February 1919
A minister and his young daughter Bess, journey west where he hopes to regain his health. They become involved with notorious outlaw 'Eagle' Ryan.
04 October 1911
A marital romance in which a married artist woos the wife of another man.
16 February 1911
During the American Revolution, an innkeeper's daughter learns of a plot to assassinate George Washington while he will be staying at her father's inn.
10 December 1916
A farmer is unjustly convicted of a homicide he did not commit.
14 June 1911
The baby daughter of Mrs. Norton, a widowed seamstress, dies. The sorrow-stricken mother gazes at the empty cradle and decides to replace the departed soul with an orphan child upon whom she can lavish the love, the rightful object of which the Great Giver and Taker has taken from her.
30 December 1934
In this melodrama filmed on location in Hawaii, a sugar plantation manager finds himself falling in love with a native girl, but instead of committing to her, he marries a socially prominent young woman from San Francisco.
