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  Pamela Hutchinson on Lois Weber

  Pamela Hutchinson on Lois Weber

  This interview with critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson was recorded in 2021.

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  The Dumb Girl of Portici

  The Dumb Girl of Portici

  Directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley • 1916 • United States
  Starring Anna Pavlova, Rupert Julian, Laura Oakley

  Two trailblazing women artists—filmmaker Lois Weber and Russian ballet superstar Anna Pavlova—joined forces to create this long-unseen landmark of silent cinema, the first blockb...

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  Shoes

  Shoes

  Directed by Lois Weber • 1916 • United States
  Starring Mary MacLaren, Harry Griffith, Mattie Witting

  Decades before the artistic triumph of neorealism and the cultural revolution of the feminist movement, director Lois Weber expressed the seeds of both in what is perhaps her greatest work: an al...