Screenplay: Lois Weber

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Lois Weber. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Shoes

1916 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Lois Weber

Cast Mary MacLaren · Harry Griffith · Mattie Witting · Jessie Arnold

Plot A young working girl must suport her family on only five dollars a week. The strain of trying to feed, house and clothe her mother, her father and three brothers...

7.2

38 votes

7.2

38 votes

Suspense (S)

1913 · Movie · 10 min. · United States

Direction Phillips Smalley · Lois Weber

Cast Lois Weber · Val Paul · Douglas Gerrard · Sam Kaufman

Plot An isolated house in deserted area is too remote for a servant, who leaves a note, quietly exits the back door, and puts the key under the mat. Alone in...

7.2

902 votes

7.2

902 votes

Hypocrites

1915 · Movie · 49 min. · United States

6.8

48 votes

6.8

48 votes

Where Are My Children?

1916 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Lois Weber · Phillips Smalley

Cast Tyrone Power Sr. · Helen Riaume · Marie Walcamp · Cora Drew

Plot While prosecuting a physician for the death of a client after an abortion, the district attorney discovers that his wife helped her society friends and the daughter of her maid...

6.5

31 votes

6.5

31 votes

The Blot

1921 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Phillips Smalley · Lois Weber

Cast Philip Hubbard · Margaret McWade · Claire Windsor · Louis Calhern

Plot The Professor dispenses the wisdom of the ages and does not make a living wage. The sons of the rich and powerful are students lacking any motivation. The next door...

6.3

35 votes

6.3

35 votes

Tarzan of the Apes

1918 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Scott Sidney

Cast Elmo Lincoln · Enid Markey · Gordon Griffith · True Boardman

Plot The plot follows the novel more closely than does any other Tarzan movie. John and Alice Clayton take ship for Africa. Mutineers maroon them. After his parents die the newborn...

5.7

181 votes

5.7

181 votes

How Men Propose (S)

1913 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Lois Weber

Cast Chester Barnett · Margarita Fischer · Phillips Smalley · Lois Weber

Plot Three men in succession propose marriage to Grace Darling; she accepts all! Since they are roommates, the three discover their problem in short order; when they return for an explanation,...

5.6

22 votes

5.6

22 votes

The Traitor (S)

1914 · Movie · min. · United States

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Jewel

1915 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

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Bobby's Baby (S)

1913 · Movie · 11 min. · United States

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Forbidden

1919 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Phillips Smalley · Lois Weber

Cast Mildred Harris · Henry Woodward · Fred Goodwins · Priscilla Dean

Plot A successful businessman becomes disgusted with his life in New York City and retires to the country for fresh air and tranquility. There he meets a country girl.

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Too Wise Wives

1921 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Lois Weber

Cast Louis Calhern · Claire Windsor · Phillips Smalley · Mona Lisa

Plot An insecure wife fears her husband may be straying back to an old flame.

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Daisies (S)

1914 · Movie · min. · United States

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In the Blood (S)

1913 · Movie · min. · United States

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Helping Mother (S)

1914 · Movie · min. · United States

Direction Phillips Smalley · Lois Weber

Cast Lois Weber · Phillips Smalley · Beatrice Van · Joe King

Plot When the story opens, Agnes, with her husband and little son, is living with her mother. Poverty has overtaken the family, and when Agnes is offered her old position as...

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Saving the Family Name

1916 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

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The People vs. John Doe

1916 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Lois Weber

Cast Harry De More · Evelyn Selbie · Willis Marks · Leah Baird

Plot A fictionalized composite of several celebrated murder cases, particularly the Stielow case, in which an innocent man is convicted and sentenced to death on purely speculative evidence.

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The Fallen Angel (S)

1913 · Movie · 21 min. · United States

Direction Lois Weber

Cast Lois Weber · Phillips Smalley · Antrim Short

Plot In the strife of a great city two sisters take different paths, one a humble home with honest hearts, the other, a gilded life of luxury and ease, without the...

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