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One of several women screenwriters given the opportunity to also direct at bustling Universal in the 1910s, Ruth Ann Baldwin had been a newspaper reporter and publicity director prior to entering films in 1913. Baldwin wrote for such Universal producer/directors as serial expert Henry McRae, the veteran Otis Turner, and the up-and-coming Frank Lloyd prior to directing '49-'17 (1917), a Western starring her husband Leo Pierson. There would be a few other opportunities to both write and direct, but Baldwin seems to have left films in the very early '20s.