- The first female member of the Directors Guild of America
- Made training films for the US Army's Women's Army Corps during WW2
- The only female director to have made the transition from silent films to talkies
- Directed Clara Bow's first film "The Wild Party"
- Impressed Paramount director James Cruze by intercutting the bullfighting scene in "Blood and Sand" with stock footage to save money
- Directed technicians to create an early prototype of a boom mike (a microphone on a fishing rod)
- Taught and influenced Francis Ford Coppola
- Became an independent director in 1932
- Assisted in launching the careers of many actresses, including Katharine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Lucille Ball and many others
- Worked as an ambulance driver during WW1
- Started at Paramount Pictures as a typist and moved up to screenwriter and editor
- Taught some of the first film classes at the Pasadena Playhouse
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