Weber, Lois

Born in Pennsylvania in a devout Christian family. ^{[9] [10]} As a child, she was fond of music and especially playing the piano. ^[11] At a young age, Weber ran away from home and worked for two years with the evangelical community, doing street sermons and performing church hymns in disadvantaged areas of Pittsburgh , and then New York . ^{[12] [13]} In 1905, she made her debut as an actress at the studio “ Gaumont ”, where she met her future husband, director Phillips Small. Weber took her first picture in 1911, and soon became known to the public due to the fact that she touched on many social and moral issues in her films, which was quite bold for that time. ^[14]

According to various estimates, Weber made 200 to 400 films, ^[6] of which only 20 have survived to date. ^[15] Among her famous films are such films as Suspense (1913), Hypocrites (1915), Where are Mine children? ”(1916),“ Doctor and Woman ”(1918) and“ Blur ”(1921). In 1913, in collaboration with her first husband, she became one of the first directors to experiment with sound, creating the first sound films in the United States. ^{[16] [17]} However, with the years of her work, the audience was getting worse and worse, and after the failure of Delirium tremens in 1934, Weber worked exclusively as a screenwriter at Universal Studios.

In November 1939, Law Weber was hospitalized in critical condition due to a stomach ailment that developed several years earlier. ^{[18] [19]} Two weeks later, she died of a bleeding ulcer , by then already impoverished and forgotten. ^[20] A farewell ceremony and cremation were paid for by her comrade Francis Marion . ^{[19] [20]} In 1960, her name star was laid on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ^[21]