- Considered "the most important female director the American film industry has ever known."
- Credited with pioneering the split screen technique in 1913's "Suspense"
- Wrote freelance movie scenarios while she was a homemaker
- Received $50,000 a year contract from the Bosworth Company
- One of the first directors to experiment with sound
- Became Universal's highest paid director earning 5,000 a week (1916)
- The first American woman to direct a full-length feature film in 1914
- Featured full-frontal female nudity in Weber's first film "Hypocrites" (1914)
- Was the only woman granted membership in the Motion Pictures Directors Association
- Received the writing credits in her first films produced with her husband, Wendell Smalley
- The first woman to own her first film studio in 1917
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