#women in movies

Lily Tomlin

Sarah Blanche Sweet (June 18, 1896 – September 6, 1986) was an American silent film actress who began her career in the earliest days of the Hollywood motion picture film industry.

Hilda Keenan (November 1891 – August 20, 1940) was an American actress and vaudeville performer, part of a family of actors including her father Frank Keenan, her husband Ed Wynn, and her son Keenan Wynn.

Keenan was in vaudeville with a one-act sketch called Sarahin 1911. She appeared in the plays The Heights(1911),The Road to Arcady(1912),Within the Law and The Salamander. In Within the Law, she co-starred with Margaret Illington; one critic commented that 

“Hilda Keenan’s Agnes Lynch, a blackmailer, is noticeably excellent, and makes an engaging characterization of a rôle which ordinarily would scarcely win our friendly feelings.”

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Michelle Yeoh talks about her early career and why Jackie Chan is afraid of her