Film Archives - Page 22 of 30

American-Anglo stage actress

British author and screenwriter.

Early Chinese-American filmmaker

Early Chinese film producer, editor and director

China’s first female scriptwriter for Cupid’s Puppets (1925), a Great Wall Film Company film co-directed by her husband

Caizhen Xie is regarded by several existing sources as the first female director of Chinese cinema who worked in China.

Early Chinese film costume designer, producer, writer and actor

Pearl Ing, or Yin Mingzhu, was the first woman to play the leading role in a film made in Shanghai, the earliest center of Chinese filmmaking.

Early comedic actress and director of the English film industry

Early film critic