Gertrude Thanhouser

Gertrude Homan Thanhouser, was an Anerican actress, screenwriter, film editor, and studio executive. The wife of Edwin Thanhouser, she worked at the Thanhouser Company studio. Her efforts made the studio one of the key independent US film studios in the nickelodeon and transitional era, praised for its erudite adaptations of Shakespeare and other "classical" stage dramas to the screen.