Not only was Helen Gardner the first American film actress to form her own production company, she was also the among the first filmmakers to embrace making features, and was the first vamp on screen.
Filmography
Cleopatra
as Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
The Show Girl
as Audrey, an Actress
The Breath of Araby
as Clothilde
By Woman's Wit
as The Wife
Vanity Fair
as Becky Sharp
An Innocent Theft
as Malcolm's Mother
How She Won Him
as Muriel Hanson
The Inherited Taint
as The Nurse
The Wooing of Winifred
as Winifred
For Her Brother's Sake
as Bessie Black - The Sister
The Sleep Walker
as Lucy Langham
Barriers Burned Away
as John's Wife
The Lure of Vanity
as Edna White
Underneath the Paint
as Tryphena Winter
A Quaker Mother
as Lois Pearson Harmon - A Quaker Wife
She Came, She Saw, She Conquered
as Rose Leigh - a Young Schoolteacher
The Death of King Edward III
as Alice Ferrers