This text was printed from the Women Film Pioneers Project at Columbia University.
To promote readability and conserve consumable resources, images and interactive elements in the digital version do not appear in print format.

Please visit https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/person/aili-kari/ to see the complete version.

Aili Kari

  • Overviews
  • Pioneers
  • Resources
  • About



In Partnership with



Pioneering Women secretaries

  • Laura Bayley

    accountant, amateur camera operator, film actress, secretary, theatre actress United Kingdom: England
  • Alice Guy Blaché

    assistant director, co-director, co-producer, co-screenwriter, director, film company owner, lecturer, producer, screenwriter, secretary, writer France, United States
  • Aili Kari

    chief accountant, film actress, office manager, production secretary, theatre actress Finland
  • Mary Manning

    adapter, amateur filmmaking club co-founder, arts magazine editor, assistant director, director, film actress, film critic, film society co-founder, film society secretary, miscellaneous crew, playwright, theatre actress, writer Ireland, United States
  • Gladys Rosson

    accountant, executive secretary, secretary, secretary-treasurer, typist United States
  • Gertrude Homan Thanhouser

    editor, executive, executive producer, film actress, film company founding partner, screenwriter, secretary United States
  • Beatrice Maude Tildesley

    film critic, film society co-founder, film society secretary, international women's organizations film correspondent, journalist, theatre critic, writer Australia
  • Dorothy Yost

    adapter, novelist, reader, scenario writer, screenwriter, secretary, title writer, writer United States

In Partnership with:


http://cdrs.columbia.edu http://libraries.columbia.edu

© 2018 Women Film Pioneers Project at Columbia University | Contact the editors. | Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.