The first African American film director:
Oscar Michaeux: Within Our Gates (1919) (music underscore added recently) and his film.
And the first female director:
Alice Guy Blache
The Pit and the Pendulum (1913)
Various films by the early filmmaker Alice Guy.
A little gender bending: Vitagraph's A Florida Enchantment
Comedy master Mack Sennet: Keystone Kops with Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle
Various famous Hollywood actors:
Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in the Thief of Baghdad (1924), The Mark of Zorro (1920);
Rudolph Valentino's The Son of the Shiek (1926) & the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), Blood and Sand (1924)
Mary Pickford (1917) The Poor Little Rich Girl
America's Lovebirds or America's Sweethearts:Janet Gaynor & Charles Farrell
Clara Bow in It (1927)
Conrad Viedt
The Man of a Thousand Faces, Lon Chaney, The Phantom of the Opera (complete silent film, 1924), The Unmasking Scene from Phantom, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
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