(Another Susan Butcher fan here…)
World’s best performer on film: Meryl Streep in Sophie’s Choice
Lassie, the world’s greatest dog, was female.
Only Lassie was played by a series of male dogs (5 I think).
She was a bloody good bitch, even if she was in drag. 
Benjamin Woolley, in his 1999 biography of Lovelace, gently debunks the view that she in fact was the first programmer, arguing instead that, as a somewhat shoddy mathematician, she merely expanded and clarified work that Charles Babbage had already done. More here.
Heh heh. I was waiting to be pulled up on this. How did they hide their dicks?
The thick coat of collie fur hid things pretty well.
Vocalist! Ain’t nobody can hold a candle to Ella.
Yeah, but they probably weren’t playing bar rules.
I mean, what was with that big loser Enrico Caruso?
Pffft. No kidding!