- Silent -screen actress and screenwriter, with Kalem from 1906. Her actual name was Eugenia Gauntier Liggett. In 1912 she left Kalem to form the Gene Gauntier Feature Players Company in conjunction with her former mentor, director Sidney Olcott. She retired from films in 1920. An interesting footnote to her career is, that as a producer for Biograph in 1907, she gave the first directing assignment to an actor they then called "Larry" who would become legendary silent-film producer-director D.W. Griffith.
- Following her retirement from film, she penned two novels. The manuscript for her 1928 autobiography titled "Blazing the Trail" is on display at the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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