Lillian Ducey (née Beiderlinden; November 26, 1878 – December 9, 1952) was an American screenwriter and director active during Hollywood's silent era.
She's noted for being one of the first American women to direct a feature-length film (1923's Enemies of Children);[1] she also worked on over a dozen scripts between 1918 and 1930.
Born to Edmund Beiderlinden and Hannah Mueller in New York, Lillian was the eldest of two daughters.
She married William Ducey in the late 1890s; the pair had a daughter but eventually separated in the 1910s.
[2] She began to craft a writing career for herself in her early 1930s, winning a short story contest before gaining bylines in publications like Harper's Bazaar, McCall's, and Redbook.