Women filmmakers to this day still strive for recogniton and deserve to be sung. Weber's passionate commitment to her brand of filmmaking, and covering issues that pushed the envelope of commercial success, may have hampered her career more than her gender. Weber's contemporary at Universal, director Ida May Park, was very serious about her craft. According to author Slide, Park was one of the few women directors, aside from Alice Guy-Blach and Weber herself, who spoke and wrote at length on the subject of women as directors. She is more imaginative, more romantic and more spiritual.
Woman leads in storywriting today, as the magazine pages testify.
However, the great Lois Weber conceded, by the end of the silent era, that women in Hollywood couldn't compete with men behind the camera. Lois Weber would have heeded the warning - and films are far richer for it. A taboo subject. Married in 1905, husband and wife were so close that Weber died within six months after Smalley's passing in 1939. The Internet Movie Database has a limited Lois Weber filmography.