Erika Cornelius Smith is a director of Research Strategy at the University of Illinois and an expert on depictions of women in fiction. Karrin Vasby Anderson is a co-author of the book "Woman President" and a professor at Colorado State University, focusing on the portrayal of women in government and its impact on popular culture.
The Last Man on Earth is one of the earliest films in history to feature a female president of the US. It set the tone for the films and shows that came next. One hundred years ago, a woman was elected as the president of the United States. This didn't happen in reality, of course, but a fictional female president did appear in a film that was released exactly a century ago, in 1924 – and it's one of the earliest surviving on-screen examples of a woman in that role.
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