Harriet Quimby was born in Arcadia, Michigan. She was an actress, model, magazine writer, screenwriter, and the first woman to ever cross the English Channel in 1912. She also was the first woman who gained a pilot license issued by "Aero Club of America" in 1911. Harriet Quimby had a great impact on the roles of women in aviation even she got the ...
The Blind Princess and the Poet, The Broken Cross, Fisher Folks
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Taurus
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Trademark
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Wore a purple colored flight suit
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Fact
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She was the first woman in America to receive a Pilot's License in 1911.
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On April 16, 1912, made the first flight by a woman pilot across the English Channel.
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She was best friends with actress Linda Arvidson whom she first met in San Francisco in 1900 while in the theatre there. Ardvison eventually married then actor and future director D.W. Griffith.
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In later years Harriet Quimby was recognized for her aviation achievements on a U. S. postage stamp.
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A biographical book was written about Quimby by historian and author Giacinta Bradley Koontz.
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Harriet Quimby was also an actress and staff writer at Biograph Company between 1910 to 1912.
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Since 2007, the Harriet Quimby story is being developed into a feature film by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Co. starring DonnaMarie Recco ('Analyze This (1999)', 'Analyze That (2002)', 'Auto Focus (2002)', produced by Thomas R. Bond II. Biograph is the same film company that Quimby was a part of in 1910.
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She was hired on staff as a theatre critic with "Leslie's Illustrated Weekly," in 1903.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Sunshine Through the Dark
1911
Short
The Blind Princess and the Poet
1911
Short
His Mother's Scarf
1911
Short
The Broken Cross
1911
Short
Fisher Folks
1911
Short
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
1909
Short
Fishermaiden
Self
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Year
Status
Character
The Late Harriet Quimby's Flight Across the English Channel
$700,000
