Alice Guy-Blaché
DirectingAlice Guy-Blaché (July 1, 1873 – March 24, 1968) is generally considered to be the world's first female director. French-born Alice Guy entered the film business as a secretary at Gaumont-Paris in 1896. The next year Gaumont changed from manufacturing cameras to producing movies, and Guy became one of its first film directors. She impressed the company so much with the output (she averaged two two-reelers a week) and quality of her productions that by 1905 she was made the company's production director, supervising the company's other directors. In 1907 she married Herbert Blaché, an Englishman who ran the company's British and German offices. The pair soon went to the U.S. to set up the company's operations there. In 1910 she set up her own production company in New York and built a studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey. After a period of critical and financial success, her company's fortunes declined and she eventually shut down the studio. Although she secured work directing films for several major Hollywood studios, she returned to France in 1922 after her divorce from Blache. She was never able to secure any directorial jobs there, and never made a film again. In 1964 she returned to the U.S. and lived in Mahwah, New Jersey - not far from where her original studios were - with her daughters, where she died in 1968.
Known For
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Self (archive footage)
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché
Self (archive footage)
Spain
Self - Presenter
Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
Herself, the director
Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Filmography — Acting
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Self (archive footage)
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché
Self (archive footage)
Spain
Self - Presenter
A Solax Celebration
The Cause
Mireille
Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
Herself, the director
Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Qui est Alice Guy?
Self
Animated Portrait Shot by L and A Lumière
Herself
Filmography — Crew
The Lure
Writer
A Fool and His Money
Producer
Pierrette's Escapades
Director
Behind the Mask
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Disappearing Act
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Falling Leaves
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At the Floral Ball
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The Burglars
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The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
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Canned Harmony
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Esmeralda
Director
Algie, the Miner
Producer
Tarnished Reputations
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The Girl in the Arm-Chair
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Man Monkey
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The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
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Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak
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Ballet Libella
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The Rolling Bed
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Turn-of-the-Century Surgery
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The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man
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The Scarlet Woman
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From the Valley of Shadows
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Tramp Strategy
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The Vampire
Producer
Butterfly Dances
Director
Barbara Frietchie
Producer
The Violin Maker of Nuremberg
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Spain
Director
Wonderful Absinthe
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A House Divided
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Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder
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The Parish Priest's Christmas
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Clown, Dog and Balloon
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Matrimony's Speed Limit
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Danse Fleur de Lotus
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The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ
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Avenue de l'Opéra
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The Great Adventure
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The Dream Woman
Screenplay
Dranem Performs The True Jiu-Jitsu
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Madame's Cravings
Director
The Empress
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Course de taureaux
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The Magician's Alms
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The Consequences of Feminism
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A Story Well Spun
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The Fisherman at the Stream
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A Solax Celebration
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Serpentine Dance
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The Statue
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The Landlady
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The Woman of Mystery
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The Fur Hat
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Mignon
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Frozen on Love's Trail
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The Irresistible Piano
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The Adventurer
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House of Cards
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Dranem Performs "Five O'Clock Tea"
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Polin Performs "The Anatomy of a Draftee"
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Greater Love Hath No Man
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An Obstacle Course
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The Stepmother
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The Glue
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Cupid and the Comet
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At the Club
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On the Barricade
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The Dirigible 'Homeland'
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Danse Serpentine (In a Lion's Cage)
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Midwife to the Upper Class
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The Cleaning Man
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Dick Whittington and His Cat
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God Disposes
Director
Mireille
Director
The Bricklayers
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Playing Trumps
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Eccentric Dance
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Heart of a Painted Woman
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What Will People Say?
Director
A Sticky Woman
Director
Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
Director
The Drunken Mattress
Director
Phantom Paradise
Director
The Wooing of Alice
Director
Danse du papillon
Director
At the Hypnotist's
Director
The High Cost of Living
Director
Cousins of Sherlocko
Director
The Roads That Lead Home
Producer
An Untimely Intrusion
Director
Gaumont Treasures 1897-1913
Director
Faust
Director
Faust and Mephistopheles
Director
In a Bamboo Hut
Director
La Gigue
Director
L'Honneur du Corse
Director
Parson Sue
Director
Fra Diavolo
Writer
My Madonna
Director
Bathing in a Stream
Director
Félix Mayol Performs "Indiscreet Questions"
Director
Shadows of the Moulin Rouge
Director
Dublin Dan
Producer
The Tigress
Director
Le Cake-walk de nouveau cirque
Director
Tango
Director
The Monster and the Girl
Director
A Terrible Lesson
Director
The Hierarchies of Love
Director
How Monsieur Takes His Bath
Director
The Equine Spy
Producer
Les malabares: Les acrobats
Director
The Rogues of Paris
Director
The Song of the Wage Slave
Director
The Hater of Women
Director
The Ocean Waif
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When Marian was Married
Director
Burstup Homes' Murder Case
Director
The Coming of Sunbeam
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Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs
Director
Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance
Director
In the Year 2000
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Entrée Et Sortie De La Mine
Director
A Comedy of Errors
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The Detective's Dog
Director
Danse fantaisiste
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When You and I Were Young
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Two Little Rangers
Director
The Sock
Director
The Race for the Sausage
Director
Kelly from the Emerald Isle
Writer
Fantastic Flowers
Director
The Pit and the Pendulum
Director
The Strike
Director
The Woman Behind the Man
Director
Hearts Unknown
Director
Coucher d'une Parisienne
Director
Beasts of the Jungle
Writer
Broken Oaths
Director
Treasures on the Wing
Director
Token of Love
Director
Souls in the Shadow
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The Banknote
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Starting Something
Director
Child of the Tenements
Director
Mrs. Cranston's Jewels
Director
The Sewer
Producer
Making an American Citizen
Producer
The First Cigarette
Director
Ocean Studies
Director
Serpentine Dance by Mme. Bob Walter
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A Severe Test
Director
Mixed Pets
Director
At the Photographer's
Director
Félix Mayol Performs "White Lilacs"
Director
Hubby Does the Washing
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Someone's Luck Society
Director
The Game-Keeper's Son
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The Reformation of Mary
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The Malagueña and the Bullfighter
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Across the Mexican Line
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Les Druides
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A Priest's Conscience
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His Double
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The Thief
Director
Burstup Homes
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Saharet Performs the Bolero
Director
Napoleon
Director
Blighted Lives
Director
The Mouse in the Crinoline
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His Mother's Hymn
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Danse basque
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Gavotte directoire
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The Crime on Temple Street
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For Love of the Flag
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A Man's a Man
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Officer Henderson
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The Face at the Window
Director
What Is a Flag?
Director
The New Love And The Old
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The Love of the Flag
Director
Outwitted by Horse and Lariat
Director
Félix Mayol Performs "The Trottins' Polka"
Director
The Fairy of Spring
Director
The Fight in the Dark
Director
Alice Guy - 13 Courts-métrages
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