- Was one of the founding members of the Academy Awards
- An avid airplane pilot
- A college graduate from Chicago's Kenwood Institute
- The youngest director in motion picture history at the age of 27 directing "The Tarantula" (1913)
- Had over 146 acting credits from 1908-1917
- Was a board member of the Palmer Photoplay Company
- Wrote 30 out of the 34 of Cecil B. DeMille's films
- The highest paid employee in the scenario department
- Was, according to McPherson, the only woman to have flown stunt flier Lieutenant Locklear's airplane
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