First women of Hollywood : female pioneers in the early motion picture business /
"First Women of Hollywood explores and illustrates the invaluable role and contributions of the mostly forgotten and unacknowledged pioneers in the film industry"--
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Essex, Connecticut :
Lyons Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Tsuru Aoki, first Asian star
- Theda Bara, first vamp
- Clara Bow, first sex symbol
- Marie Eline, first child star
- Myrtle Gonzalez, first Hispanic star
- Elsie Janis, first person to visit the troops
- Evelyn Preer, first African American star
- Lilian St. Cyr/Red Wing, first Native American star
- Gloria Swanson, first fashion Icon
- Anna May Wong, first Chinese American star
- Alice Guy Blaché first filmmaker
- Zora Neale Hurston, first African American filmmaker
- Beatriz Michelina, first Hispanic filmmaker
- Mary Pickford, first major studio founder/actress/producer
- Marion Wong, first Chinese American filmmaker
- Mabel Normand, first comedy director
- Lois Weber, first American-born director/producer
- Gene Gauntier, first screenwriter
- Nellie Bly Baker, first projectionist
- Katherine Russell Bleecker, first documentarian
- Helen Gibson, first stuntperson
- Winifred Laurance, first assistant director
- Viola Lawrence, first editor
- Nell Shipman, first animal trainer
- Julia Heron, first set decorator
- Elsa Lopez, first art director
- Clare West, first costume designer
- Margaret Whistler, first property master
- Lillian Rosine, first makeup artist
- Hattie Wilson Tabourne
- first hairdresser
- Edith Lang, first composer/accompanist
- Helene Smith Dayton, first stop motion animator
- Bessie Mae Kelley, first animator
- M. J. Winkler, first animation distributor
- Iris Barry, first archivist
- Elizabeth McGaffey, first reference librarian
- Delight Evans, first fan magazine editor
- Marion Jochimsen, first studio poster artist
- Beulah Livingstone, first publicist
- Dorothy Hinton Maehl, first stills photographer
- Gertrude Price, first film critic
- Fanchon Royer, first trade magazine editor
- Agnes Egan Cobb, first distribution sales executive
- Peggy Coleman, first nurse
- Lillian Greenberger, first business manager
- Kora Newell, first teacher
- Edna Williams, first international distribution sales executive.