Movies: Lois Weber

A Broadway actress becomes a star due to the guidance of her director. The two fall in love, but are prevented from marrying due to a clause put into her contract by her producer....

A romantic melodrama set in old California....

A 1911 silent drama film written and directed by Edwin S. Porter and Lois Weber. Starring Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley, and Charles De Forrest....

Little Sherlock Holmes, Jr., reads the doughty doings of his hero-god, and at once determines to become a detective himself....

Early Lois Weber film....

Haunting and hypnotic, this artistic gem recounts the lyrics from a popular 1898 song of the same name. Weber’s stylistics, including circular matte shots, foregrounding of the cross and the rosary, and placement of the characters within each shot br...

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....

A chorus girl gains infamy after the suicide of her beau....

A woman, having lost interest in her soon to be bankrupt husband, decides to seduce a doctor....