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Florence Lois Weber: Universal's Top Director in the 1910s
Lois Weber was a director at Universal in the 1910s./nShe was considered a child prodigy and toured the country as a concert pianist./nAfter acting in and directing her first silent film, her career took off./nShe moved to LA to be part of Universal City and then became Universal's top director in the mid1910s./nShe made a series of very high profile, very controversial feature films on really key social issues of the day./nSome of her films include The People vs. John Doe, Capital Punishment, Hopped the Devil's Brew, Drug Addiction, and Shoes./nOne of her most famous quotes is "I see things that men don't see.".
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