Pink-SlippedWomen held more positions of power in the silent film era than at any other time in American motion picture history. Marion Leonard broke from acting to cofound a feature film company. Gene Gauntier, the face of Kalem Films, also wrote the first script of Ben Hur. Helen Holmes choreographed her own breathtaking on camera stunt work. Yet they and the other pioneering filmmaking women vanished from memory. Using individual careers as a point of