Trivia

She is the first American woman to direct a full-length feature, the Rex production of The Merchant of Venice (1914).

She has directed three films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Suspense (1913), Where Are My Children? (1916) and Shoes (1916).

Among Weber's notable films are: the controversial Hypocrites, which featured the first non-pornography full-frontal female nude scene, in 1915.

White Heat proved to be her final film, and her only talkie. It was shown on television on Friday, June 21, 1940 on NBC's station W2XBS, but is now considered a lost film.

A one-woman play, Tea with Lois, is based on Weber's talks at the Hollywood Studio Club. Written, produced and directed by Susan Kurtz, it was recorded and shown at the 53rd Cinecon Film Festival in 2017.

The Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival gives out the Lois Weber Award in her honor since 2017.

In collaboration with her first husband, Phillips Smalley, in 1913 Weber was "one of the first directors to experiment with sound", making the first sound films in the United States.

Weber wrote a memoir, The End of the Circle, which was to have been published shortly before her death but ultimately was not, despite the efforts of her sister, Ethel Howland, and was later stolen in the 1970s.

Weber was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 8, 1960.

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission installed a Lois Weber historical marker in front of the Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny.

Film historian Anthony Slide has also asserted, "Along with D. W. Griffith, Weber was the American cinema's first genuine auteur, a filmmaker involved in all aspects of production and one who utilized the motion picture to put across her own ideas and philosophies".

Weber has been credited with pioneering the use of the split screen technique to show simultaneous action in her 1913 film Suspense.

The 1916 film Where Are My Children?, which discussed abortion and birth control was added to the National Film Registry in 1993.

Her death was largely overlooked, with her Variety obituary only two brief paragraphs long and a brief mention in the Los Angeles Examiner. Gossip columnist Hedda Hopper contributed a more substantial tribute in the Los Angeles Times.

She was in 1917 the first American woman director to own her own film studio.

She is identified in some historical references as among "the most important and prolific film directors in the era of silent films".

By 1920, Weber was considered the "premier woman director of the screen and author and producer of the biggest money making features in the history of the film business".

Executive produced and hosted by Elizabeth Banks, directed by Svetlana Cvetko, Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber, a 6-minute documentary, which won best documentary at the 2017 LA Shorts International Film Festival, told through the fictionalized character of a young magazine photographer who hopes to impress Weber, examines Lois Weber's career, for I'll Take You There, a Hollywood-themed novel by Wally Lamb, first released as an iOS app for Metabook.

Weber was "one of the first directors to come to the attention of the censors in Hollywood's early years".

Weber produced a body of work which has been compared to Griffith's in both quantity and quality and brought to the screen her concerns for humanity and social justice in an estimated 200 to 400 films, of which as few as twenty have been preserved.