Podcast appearances and mentions of Florence Lawrence

Bertha Benz, June McCarroll, Margaret Wilcox, Florence Lawrence, Mary Anderson, Clarenore Stinnes, Michèle Mouton czy Jutta Kleinschmidt. To tylko kilka przykładów kobiet, które udowodniły, że są bardziej kreatywne, odważne czy lepsze w zarządzaniu lub najzwyczajniej w świecie szybsze od mężczyzn w świecie, który uchodzi za męski. 

En este episodio nos dimos a la tarea de inventar este episodio, así como le hicieron Kevin Costner, Francis Ford Coppola, Florence Lawrence, Marlon Brando, Hedy Lamar y 007 con sus creaciones geniales. ¡HAY PASTEL AL FINAL! 

Technical challenges led to another lost show. Not since Unleaded Gas have we lost a show. It was a busy week all around and we didn’t have time, so enjoy two more women from history! Do you know how to fix Pete’s mic software? Do you want to take some of the load off of […]

Technical challenges led to another lost show. Not since Unleaded Gas have we lost a show. It was a busy week all around and we didn’t have time, so enjoy two more women from history! Do you know how to fix Pete’s mic software? Do you want to take some of the load off of […]

Hoy comienzo este podcast de una forma muy especial… se lo voy a dedicar a mi pareja. A mi pareja y a todas las mujeres. Y es que no nos engañemos: El mundo del motor ha sido un mundo de hombres. Y lamentablemente, lo sigue siendo… pero cada vez más mujeres se interesan por los coches y las motos. Pese a ello, a lo largo de la historia, ha habido mujeres que han sido verdaderas protagonistas y hoy os ha traído a 10 mujeres y a 10 historias curiosas… más un “bonus track”. Me llama la atención como las mujeres, en su relación con el automóvil, son mucho más prácticas que nosotros. Y no, no me refiero a los tópicos, que a las mujeres les interesa, por ejemplo, el espacio y a los hombres la potencia… tópicos que pueden tener algo de razón pero que banalizan a ambos sexos. Entre otras experiencias, he trabajado vendiendo coches y me he dado cuenta de que las mujeres eran -y son- mucho más espabiladas cuando hablabas de financiación, de las coberturas de un seguro o de equipamientos extra de seguridad… incluso aquellas que eran o son amantes de la conducción deportiva, o que directamente, eran o son pilotos. Tranquilas y tranquilos, también os traigo mujeres que han participado en competición, en F1 o que han ganado a todos los hombres en una prueba tan dura con el Paris-Dakar… Hoy vamos a huir de los tópicos. No he incluido en esta lista a Michelle Mouton porque hay un vídeo exclusivamente dedicado a ella, solo por eso no está aquí. 1. Bertha Benz (1849-1944). Primer viaje en coche. Su marido inventó el automóvil, pero ella fue quien lo hizo famoso. Karl Benz estaba muy decepcionado con su invento, el "Motorwagen", un triciclo con motor de 0,75 CV considerado por muchos el primer automóvil. Pero no vendía ni uno. Una mañana de agosto de 1888 su mujer, Bertha, decidió irse de viaje con sus dos hijos y se convirtió no en la primera mujer "viajera" sino en la persona que realizó el primer viaje en coche de la historia. 2. Minnie Palmer (1857-1936). Primera propietaria de un coche Minnie Palmer fue una de las mayores estrellas de Broadway en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Tras divorciarse de su marido y manager, se casó en segundas nupcias con el generoso y millonario inglés, Francis Jerrard. La actriz norteamericana se convirtió en la primera mujer que se sepa, que era propietaria de un automóvil en Gran Bretaña. 3. June McCarroll (1867-1954). Invento las líneas de separación. Una historia curiosa… June McCarroll era una enfermera de Nueva York que tuvo una mala experiencia al volante de su Ford T: En 1917 fue literalmente arrollada fuera de la carretera por un camión. Para evitar tales accidentes, pidió que se pintase una raya que separase los dos carriles… pero nadie la hizo caso. Y lo hizo ella misma: Se armó de pintura y brocha y se pudo a pintar la raya que separaba los dos carriles en una carretera. 4. Genevra Delphine Mudge (1881-1964). Primera piloto Genevra fue una pionera en el mundo de la automoción en Estados Unidos y en muchos sentidos: Fue la primera mujer con carné de conducir en Nueva York, en 1899; se la considera la primera piloto de la historia; y una de las primeras “culpables” de un grave accidente. 5. Dorothy Levitt (1882-1922). Inventora del retrovisor. Dorothy tenía una especie de título honorífico: "La mujer más rápida del Reino Unido". Hizo mucho por el automóvil pues no solo fue conductora y piloto, sino que además fue también periodista y escritora e introdujo a la reina Alejandra, consorte de Eduardo VII, y a sus hijas, en el mundo de la automoción. A Elizabeth Levitt se la considera la inventora oficiosa del espejo retrovisor. En su libro, cuyo título es un verdadero ejercicio de imaginación: "La mujer y el automóvil: un manual amigable para todas las mujeres que compiten en automovilismo o desean hacerlo" recomendaba a las mujeres llevar un pequeño espejo para estar atentas al tráfico a su espalda en los atascos sin dejar de mirar hacia delante… la idea estaba clara. 6. Florence Lawrence (1886-1938). Inventora del intermitente. Seguimos con mujeres muy prácticas. Florence Lawrence está considerada como la "primera estrella del cine" pues participó en nada menos que en 270 películas en la época del cine mudo. Un accidente en un rodaje en 1914 marcó el declive de su carrera y de su gran fortuna y acabó suicidándose… Pero antes inventó un dispositivo, colocado en el paragolpes trasero del coche, que indicaba mediante una mano de cartón la dirección a la que iba a girar el coche. 7. Mercedes Jellinek (1889-1929). Dio nombre a una marca. Mercedes era hija del empresario y diplomático Ernest Jellinek, apasionado del mundo de los coches y distribuidor de los vehículos de la firma DMG, fundada por Gottlieb Daimler y Wilhelm Maybach, de los que Ernest era buena amigo. Tanto que pusieron el nombre de su hija a su marca de coches. El primer Mercedes de la historia fue el 35 HP, en 1901. Y la historia sigue. 8. María Teresa de Filippis (1926-2016). Primera mujer en la F1 ¿Pensabas que la Fórmula 1 era una categoría exclusiva para hombres? Pues la italiana María Teresa de Filippis demostró lo contario el 18 de mayo de 1958, y se convirtió en la primera de solo cinco mujeres que hasta hoy han corrido F1. Algo de refilón nos pilla, porque María Teresa era hija de un Conde italiano, pero de madre española. Por pura casualidad De Filippis se hizo con el Maserati 250F con el que Juan Manuel Fangio había ganado el Mundial de F1 en 1957. No logró clasificarse en su primer GP, en Mónaco, pero sí en el Gran Premio de Bélgica el 15 de junio, en el que terminó en décima posición. 9. Lella Lombardi (1941-1992). Única mujer con puntos en la F1. Solo una mujer en la historia ha conseguido puntuar en una carrera de Fórmula 1. Hablamos de Lella Lombardi que logró un sexto puesto, a bordo de un March Ford, en el Gran Premio de España de 1975, en el circuito barcelonés de Montjuïc. 10. Jutta Kleinschmidt (1962-actualidad). Vencedora del Dakar. El último Dakar “de verdad” fue el disputado en 2001 la última edición que se disputó en su tradicional recorrido París-Dakar. Y, casualmente, la única vez en que una mujer ha logrado la victoria. Hablamos de la alemana Jutta Kleinschmidt, nacida en Colonia, 1962. Y ahora vamos con el “bonus track” prometido: Bonus Track. Isadora Duncan (1877-1927). El mito… Con los coches llegó la velocidad y con la velocidad llegaron los accidentes. El 14 de septiembre de 1927, en Niza, Isadora Duncan viajaba como copiloto en un descapotable francés, un Amilcar y no un Bugatti como cuentan las leyendas urbanas… el larguísimo fular que llevaba al cuello se enredó en el eje de la rueda trasera. Isadora murió estrangulada, y aquel mismo día se convirtió en mito.

Chris and Charlotte were live in Portland, Oregon, to look at two recently riffed shorts on a topic that is dear to all Portlanders' hearts: bicycle safety! The Bicycle Driver and Bicycling Visual Skills both want to teach us about how to share the road with cars safely. [And yes, Chris gets the name of one of the shorts wrong the first time.]SHOW NOTES.Bicycling Visual Skills: Not on IMDb?! Not yet on the MST3K Wiki, even, though it should end up here. But, update: It's from 1983!The Bicycle Driver: Also not on IMDb?! MST3K Wiki. UnMSTed.Passages Bookshop was a gracious host, and is well worth a visit if you're in Portland.A/V Geeks have lots of educational shorts to enjoy.A/V Geeks' upcoming event in Portland, in tribute to the late great Dennis Nyback of the Clinton Street Theatre.Janelle Showalter?P.J. O'Rourke's notorious essay on bicycling.A guide to Portland's green zones.Toronto cycling map vs. Portland cycling map.Kintsugi.Florence Lawrence.The Good Roads Movement and the League of American Wheelmen.Support us on Patreon and maybe we'll get to do this again!

Troppo spesso le invenzioni fatte dalle donne vengono brevettate da un uomo e le inventrici riconosciute ufficialmente sono ancora troppo poche. Persino l'edizione speciale del gioco Monopoli, dedicato alle inventrici, dimentica di riconoscere la vera maternità del gioco, inventato da una donna.Tutti i link alla fine della pagina, dopo la traduzione in inglese.TRASCRIZIONE [English translation below]Donne in ascolto, se avete mai inventato qualcosa, correte subito all'ufficio brevetti per brevettarla e fate attenzione che non arrivi un maschio a rubarvi l'invenzione.Questo è quello che succede molto spesso quando una donna inventa qualcosa, dai tempi dei tempi. Ho scoperto qualche giorno fa che il dispositivo per segnalare nelle auto, le frecce, quelle che si mettono quando si deve girare, si deve fare una curva, sono state inventate da una donna, un'attrice, Florence Lawrens, nel 1915, un'attrice che doveva essere anche molto di successo perché all'epoca si acquistò una macchina con i suoi soldi, quindi grande libertà, grande indipendenza, e poi era una a cui piaceva anche mettere le mani nel motore, ripararsi la macchina eccetera, e inventò un dispositivo per segnalare quando doveva girare a destra o a sinistra. Purtroppo però Florence dimenticò di brevettare questo dispositivo, per cui poi arrivò il solito maschio che nel 1929 brevettò la segnalazione delle auto. Il nome del tipo non ve lo dico, peggio per lui che ha rubato l'idea alla nostra Florence.Florence tra l'altro veniva da una famiglia molto interessante, anche la madre era un inventrice, aveva inventato, qualche anno dopo che la figlia inventò e le frecce, inventò il tergicristallo per tenere il vetro della macchina pulito, quindi una famiglia fantastica di inventrice.Un'altra inventrice che è stata dimenticata è Lizzie Magie che inventò i Monopoli. Lo inventò all'inizio del Novecento, nel 1904, come un gioco che avrebbe dovuto dimostrare come con il capitalismo non vinceva nessuno, ma tutti perdevano. Lo brevettò anche, and all'ufficio brevetti, solo che poi lo vendette per una miseria, e qualcun altro, diversi anni più tardi, lo brevetto a suo nome, un altro maschio di cui non vi dico il nome.Una cosa interessante è che qualche anno fa Monopoli ha pubblicato un'edizione speciale dedicata alle donne inventrice, dove in ogni casella, anziché il nome della strada, c'è il nome di una inventrice. Manca però Lizzie Magie che inventò appunto il gioco dei Monopoli.Come siamo messi a invenzioni oggi? In Italia siamo messi maluccio solo il 14% delle donne va all'ufficio brevetti a brevettare l'invenzione, anche se devo dire che in Sardegna le cose vanno piuttosto bene perché la Sardegna è la prima regione in Italia per inventrici: il 27,9% delle invenzioni viene registrato da una donna, e la Sardegna è 5ª in Europa, quindi donne sarde inventrici continuate a inventare ma soprattutto continuate ad andare all'ufficio brevetti e mettere il vostro nome. Fate attenzione che qualche maschio non vi freghi l'invenzione.TRANSLATIONWomen listening, if you have ever invented something, run immediately to the patent office to patent it and be careful that a male does not come and steal your invention.This is what happens very often when a woman invents something, since time immemorial. I discovered a few days ago that the device for signaling cars, the indicators, the ones you put on when you have to turn, you take a curve, were invented by a woman, an actress, Florence Lawrens, in 1915, an actress who must have also been very successful because at the time she bought a car with her own money, therefore great freedom, great independence, and then she was someone who also liked to put her hands in the engine, repair her car, etc., and she invented a device to signal when turning right or left.Unfortunately, however, Florence forgot to patent this device, so then the usual male arrived who in 1929 patented the car indicators. I won't tell you the name of the guy, too bad for him who stole the idea from our Florence. Among other things, Florence came from a very interesting family, her mother was also an inventor, she invented, a few years after her daughter invented the indicators, she invented the windshield wiper to keep the glass of the car clean, therefore a fantastic family of inventor.Another inventor who has been forgotten is Lizzie Magie who invented Monopoly. She invented it at the beginning of the twentieth century, in 1904, as a game that was supposed to demonstrate how with capitalism no one wins, but everyone loses. She patented it too, went to the patent office, but then she sold it for a pittance, and somebody else, several years later, patented it in his name, another male whose name I won't tell you.An interesting thing is that a few years ago Monopoly published a special edition dedicated to female inventors, where in each spot, instead of the street name, there is the name of a female inventor. Too bad that Lizzie Magie, who invented the Monopoly game, is missing.How are we at female inventors today? In Italy we are in a bad shape only 14% of women go to the patent office to patent the invention, even if I must say that in Sardinia things are going quite well because Sardinia is the first region in Italy for female inventors: 27.9 % of inventions are registered by a woman, and Sardinia is 5th in Europe, so Sardinian women inventors keep inventing but above all keep going to the patent office and putting your name. Be careful that some male does not steal the invention.LINKS: La donna che inventò Monopoli https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_MagieL'edizione speciale di Monopoli (senza il nome dell'inventrice del gioco) https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/09/11/ms-monopoly-female-inventor-lizzie-magie/La spettacolare Florence Lawrence, femminista, inventrice e attrice (ma ancora non ci avete fatto un film?) https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_LawrenceQualche numero sulle inventrici in Italia e in Sardegna https://www.lastampa.it/esteri/2022/11/08/news/quante_sono_le_inventrici_in_italia_tutti_i_numeri_dei_brevetti_nel_mondo-12226363/

She was born Florence Annie Bridgwood on January 2, 1886. The public would know her as the “Imp Girl”, or "The Biograph Girl" but later as Florence Lawrence. She is often referred to as the "first movie star", at least in the United States. Florence appeared in almost 300 films for various motion picture companies throughout her career.

This episode is actually a bonus episode, rather than the other “bonus” episode I've released, which were 30 minutes long and took weeks to make. This episode gets a little heavy, but suicide is a heavy subject. If you, or someone you know, is having suicidal thoughts, know that there is help. In the United States, you can visit https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org to make contact with people who are here to help you right now. You can also call them on the phone, just dial 800-273-8255. I'm a great admirer of the writer and philanthropist, John Green, who put it excellently when he said “Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.” People struggling with suicidal thoughts make it through them, and you, or the people you know, can too. I'm sorry that I don't have the information here of other countries, but this kind of help is available in many places across the world.I also really recommend This Was Hollywood by Carla Valderama. Its entertaining and packed full of information that I used for both this episode and episode 16. If you would like to contact me you can email me at historyoffilmpodcast@gmail.com, and you can visit the shows website, historyoffilmpodcast.com.Jake.

Sinema ve eğlence sohbetlerimizin beşinci bölümünde ilk Hollywood yıldızı Florence Lawrence, Azizler filminin çevresinde dönen tartışmalar ve 2020'nin en önemli filmlerinden Minari üzerine konuştuk.

Sinepoli bu bölümde ilk Hollywood yıldızı Florence Lawrence, Azizler filminin çevresinde dönen tartışmalar ve 2020'nin en önemli filmlerinden Minari üzerine konuştu.

In which a vaudeville baby whistler becomes the world's first movie star and goes on to invent the electric windshield wiper, and Ken's knowledge of Ogden Nash insults finally comes in handy. Certificate #52050.

How the turn signal came to be, and the woman behind the invention.

Con un DeLorian aparcado en la puerta de Radio UMH, viajaremos al pasado, presente y futuro con las McFly, Noelia Manresa y Helia Camacho, y dándonos impulso Sonia Martínez. En este “Pasajeros al tubo neumático” hablaremos sobre distintos tipos de transporte: actuales, antiguos y futuristas. Rescatamos a Margaret Knight, que mejoró el motor de combustión interno, a Florence Lawrence y sus indicadores de intermitente y … a la Marquesa, ¿sabes quién o qué es? Pero si lo tuyo no es lo retro, no te preocupes, que también tenemos contenido para los más futuristas: la teletransportación. Y para que viajar con los peques sea seguro, te hablamos de la normativa de las sillitas de coche, cómo utilizar las sillitas para bicicleta y si se puede o no llevar a los niños en remolque de bicicleta. Si detestas llevar a los niños al cole, quizá “Family es cool” sea tu página. Apúntate los eventos de la agenda, que si no te funciona el DeLorian no podrás retroceder para asistir. Para finalizar, nos vamos a ir en metro, desde los mapas de metro hasta el metro de Madrid, y algunas curiosidades más. Acompáñanos en este viaje. Y si tienes algo que contarnos, no lo dudes, nos encontrarás en: Facebook: @OndasMecanicas Twitter: @OMecanicas Email: info.ondasmecanicas@gmail.com

Con un DeLorian aparcado en la puerta de Radio UMH, viajaremos al pasado, presente y futuro con las McFly, Noelia Manresa y Helia Camacho, y dándonos impulso Sonia Martínez. En este “Pasajeros al tubo neumático” hablaremos sobre distintos tipos de transporte: actuales, antiguos y futuristas. Rescatamos a Margaret Knight, que mejoró el motor de combustión interno, a Florence Lawrence y sus indicadores de intermitente y … a la Marquesa, ¿sabes quién o qué es? Pero si lo tuyo no es lo retro, no te preocupes, que también tenemos contenido para los más futuristas: la teletransportación. Y para que viajar con los peques sea seguro, te hablamos de la normativa de las sillitas de coche, cómo utilizar las sillitas para bicicleta y si se puede o no llevar a los niños en remolque de bicicleta. Si detestas llevar a los niños al cole, quizá “Family es cool” sea tu página. Apúntate los eventos de la agenda, que si no te funciona el DeLorian no podrás retroceder para asistir. Para finalizar, nos vamos a ir en metro, desde los mapas de metro hasta el metro de Madrid, y algunas curiosidades más. Acompáñanos en este viaje. Y si tienes algo que contarnos, no lo dudes, nos encontrarás en: Facebook: @OndasMecanicas Twitter: @OMecanicas Email: info.ondasmecanicas@gmail.com

Last episode Marissa introduced the concept of Gang Stalking, which she explains further in this episode. In mistakenly thinking February is Women’s History Month, Pete digs into Hollywood archives and talks about the first movie star, Florence Lawrence, who is a hero for a different reason. The duo also share their catchphrases if they were […]

Last episode Marissa introduced the concept of Gang Stalking, which she explains further in this episode. In mistakenly thinking February is Women’s History Month, Pete digs into Hollywood archives and talks about the first movie star, Florence Lawrence, who is a hero for a different reason. The duo also share their catchphrases if they were […]

Con un DeLorian aparcado en la puerta de Radio UMH, viajaremos al pasado, presente y futuro con las McFly, Noelia Manresa y Helia Camacho, y dándonos impulso Sonia Martínez. En este “Pasajeros al tubo neumático” hablaremos sobre distintos tipos de transporte: actuales, antiguos y futuristas. Rescatamos a Margaret Knight, que mejoró el motor de combustión interno, a Florence Lawrence y sus indicadores de intermitente y … a la Marquesa, ¿sabes quién o qué es? Pero si lo tuyo no es lo retro, no te preocupes, que también tenemos contenido para los más futuristas: la teletransportación. Y para que viajar con los peques sea seguro, te hablamos de la normativa de las sillitas de coche, cómo utilizar las sillitas para bicicleta y si se puede o no llevar a los niños en remolque de bicicleta. Si detestas llevar a los niños al cole, quizá “Family es cool” sea tu página. Apúntate los eventos de la agenda, que si no te funciona el DeLorian no podrás retroceder para asistir. Para finalizar, nos vamos a ir en metro, desde los mapas de metro hasta el metro de Madrid, y algunas curiosidades más. Acompáñanos en este viaje. Y si tienes algo que contarnos, no lo dudes, nos encontrarás en: Facebook: @OndasMecanicas Twitter: @OMecanicas Email: info.ondasmecanicas@gmail.com

Movie Meltdown - Episode 463  This week we welcome Dr. Ann Hall, Chair Comparative Humanities at University of Louisville, who not only teaches about film, but has also been a movie fan pretty much her whole life. So together we embark on our usual conversational trajectory as we bounce around from topics like… the old Hollywood publicity machine to favorite holiday movies. We also address the role of women in film in general to more specifically - the role of women in horror films. Plus a lot of other random discussions along the way. And before we’re done, someone in the cast tells us how - this one time... they met Bill Murray. And as we all leisurely lounge in a bathtub full of milk, we also mention… the Hays code, Tex Avery cartoons, Cecil B. DeMille, Turn of the Screw, Florence Lawrence, Rosemary's Baby, associated with the lowbrow medium… like film, Sigourney Weaver, celebrity magazines, she began as a flapper, It's a Wonderful Life, clean up her act, Miracle at St. Anna, babysitters, spectacle vs. story, Joan Crawford, The Others, Die Hard, visual literacy, Babette's Feast, we were hiding from the trick-or-treaters, old soda ads, The Conjuring, CG creating new celebrity performances, idealizing children, Nosferatu, Avalon, Carrie Underwood is Julie Andrews, a teaching conundrum, North by Northwest, manager their image, Claudette Colbert, was called box office poison, Mildred Pierce, In Cold Blood, Laura Mulvey essay, Ira Levin, he looked a little like John Hurt’s Elephant Man, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Shadow of the Vampire, Torch Song Trilogy, attuned to beauty, Chris Evans, Bad Santa, always looking for patterns, what have you done to it’s eyes, right of refusal with scripts, Katharine Hepburn, soda ads, Get Out, people that live in it… don’t seem to live, an American success story, brows, cheekbones, lips and hair, The Innocents, the way that women are treated in different types of media, The Sign of the Cross, soap ads, the biograph girl and clerics on consultancy. “...it wasn’t meant to be... provocative… and I think they got a little carried away!”

Due grandi donne del cinema muto: la prima regista e la prima persona a vedere il proprio nome sul cartellone di un film.

By now you've probably heard about how the stock market is beginning to get pretty volatile but it's a challenge making sense of it all. Most people don't understand the ins and outs of the stock market but luckily there are people who do! Scott caught up with one of them to help explain what's happening in the market today. Guest: Marvin Ryder, Professor of Marketing at the DeGroote School of Business-Hamilton has brought a lot of talent and support to the world but that's not always recognized or even known about by even Hamiltonians! Florence Lawrence is one such Hamiltonian that is often referred to as "The First Movie Star" but most people haven't even heard of her and Cadillac Bill wants to change that. Will you support the recognition that Florence Lawrence deserves in Hamilton? Guest: Cadillac BIll, Hamilton musician and entertainer-There has been an absolutely staggering amount of talent, intelligence and genuinely good people who have walked this earth and in nearly every single one of their speeches, both long and short, there is a mention of mankind. Until recently, mankind is accepted by all... except for Justin Trudeau; he calls it 'peoplekind'. Can someone please remind us why he was voted in as Canada's leader?-The Hamilton Bulldogs are gearing up for the playoffs and some big trades. Amidst an amazing season, what does the GM and President of the Hamilton Bulldogs think of this years' season and where they're going this year? Guest: Steve Staios, President and General Manager of the Hamilton Bulldogs

Hampton and Dave get a little deep at first, then discuss the death of Hollywood’s first starlet, Florence Lawrence.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week’s episode features our first returning guest. You’ll remember Liza Jane Richey from episode 10 with Chika. This time Liza Jane will share a personal account of the struggle for women in the South to have control of their reproductive rights. She goes into detail of the steps she had to take to have an abortion, what the experience was like for her and where she is now. She reflects and gives advice to anyone going through a similar situation. Our Who’s that lady (from history)?, which was inspired by Liza Jane, is Florence Lawrence aka The Biograph Girl.

Gif heritage with Sally McKay. Kiera Boult is the wizard of Canada's Brooklyn. The first movie star is from Hamilton.   Kiera Boult is a performance artist and retired stand-up comic. Sally McKay is an artist, curator and assistant professor at McMaster University. She helped run the now-deceased art magazine Lola, which was famous for its "shotgun" art reviews by non-writers. Florence Lawrence was a Hamilton-born silent actor who arguably became the first movie star. You can find some of her movies on Youtube. Shirley Hughes is one of the co-founders of the Toronto Silent Film Festival. The music on this show is by the band Zena.   This episode was recorded at Mills Hardware in Hamilton, Ontario.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Hollywood, a name alone can attract a big paycheck. It wasn’t always that way. There was a time in the early days of filmmaking that the big studios wouldn’t allow the actors name to be known. They feared their actors becoming stars, because they knew the consequences. This changed with one person, a female actor named Florence Lawrence, who is credited at the first film star in America. She was know as “The Biograph Girl” and she made 300 films for various motion picture companies throughout her career. Show notes and links: * Florence Lawrence – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) * Florence Lawrence: The First Movie Star (history.com) * Florence Lawrence – Women Film Pioneers Project (columbia.edu) * The first ever movie star: Florence Lawrence – Page 2 of 3 (queensofvintage.com) * Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl: America’s First Movie Star (9780786430895): Kelly R. Brown: Books (amazon.com) * Carl Laemmle, Sr. Biography | Fandango (fandango.com) * Florence Lawrence: Automotive Inventor and the “World’s First Movie Star” (historicvehicle.org)

The Biograph girl. The first Movie Star whose name was known to the public. She was super popular even before Hollywood. Come with me to the 1910's, and listen.

The Biograph girl. The first Movie Star whose name was known to the public. She was super popular even before Hollywood. Come with me to the 1910's, and listen.