Alice Guy-Blaché
Directing
Born: July 1, 1873 · Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France
Died: March 24, 1968 (aged 94)
Highest Rated
Biography
Alice 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
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
1896
Falling Leaves
1912
The Consequences of Feminism
1906
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018
Madame's Cravings
1906
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
1900
Matrimony's Speed Limit
1913
Pierrette's Escapades
1900
Algie, the Miner
1912
At the Hypnotist's
1898
The Race for the Sausage
1907
Disappearing Act
1898
Photos (3)
Movies (1)
Self / Appearances (8)
Cinépanorama
Self · 1 eps
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Self (archive footage)
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Spain
Self - Presenter
Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
Herself, the director
The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché
Self (archive footage)
Animated Portrait Shot by L and A Lumière
Herself
Upcoming (1)
Directing (135)
Tarnished Reputations
Director
The Great Adventure
Director
Starting Something
Director
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
Director
Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance
Director
Fantastic Flowers
Director
Esmeralda
Director
The Consequences of Feminism
Director
Falling Leaves
Director
Tramp Strategy
Director
Félix Mayol Performs "White Lilacs"
Director
Algie, the Miner
Director
Ballet Libella
Director
The Girl in the Arm-Chair
Director
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
Director
Canned Harmony
Director
At the Floral Ball
Director
A House Divided
Director
The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ
Director
Madame's Cravings
Director
The Ocean Waif
Director
At the Club
Director
On the Barricade
Director
The Adventurer
Director
The Detective's Dog
Director
The Thief
Director
Spain
Director
The Irresistible Piano
Director
Ocean Studies
Director
At the Hypnotist's
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The Stepmother
Director
Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder
Director
A Fool and His Money
Director
House of Cards
Director
The Dirigible 'Homeland'
Director
His Double
Director
The Strike
Director
Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
Director
Pierrette's Escapades
Director
The Cleaning Man
Director
Fra Diavolo
Director
The Bricklayers
Director
Behind the Mask
Director
Making an American Citizen
Director
Matrimony's Speed Limit
Director
The Magician's Alms
Director
Two Little Rangers
Director
Faust and Mephistopheles
Director
Tango
Director
Bathing in a Stream
Director
Polin Performs "The Anatomy of a Draftee"
Director
The Hater of Women
Director
Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs
Director
Officer Henderson
Director
A Sticky Woman
Director
Man Monkey
Director
The Malagueña and the Bullfighter
Director
The Song of the Wage Slave
Director
Serpentine Dance
Director
My Madonna
Director
An Untimely Intrusion
Director
Disappearing Act
Director
The Vampire
Director
The Tigress
Director
A Terrible Lesson
Director
The Dream Woman
Director
In a Bamboo Hut
Director
Dick Whittington and His Cat
Director
The Landlady
Director
Eccentric Dance
Director
Serpentine Dance by Mme. Bob Walter
Director
The Empress
Director
A Priest's Conscience
Director
The Drunken Mattress
Director
Mixed Pets
Director
The Banknote
Director
The Glue
Director
The Race for the Sausage
Director
Broken Oaths
Director
Heart of a Painted Woman
Director
The Fisherman at the Stream
Director
The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man
Director
A Comedy of Errors
Director
Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak
Director
The Burglars
Director
Parson Sue
Director
When You and I Were Young
Director
Gaumont Treasures 1897-1913
Director
The Statue
Director
The Lure
Director
Le Cake-walk de nouveau cirque
Director
A Man's a Man
Director
Midwife to the Upper Class
Director
Souls in the Shadow
Director
At the Photographer's
Director
Token of Love
Director
The Coming of Sunbeam
Director
The Scarlet Woman
Director
Frozen on Love's Trail
Director
Félix Mayol Performs "Indiscreet Questions"
Director
Avenue de l'Opéra
Director
Cupid and the Comet
Director
The Woman of Mystery
Director
Saharet Performs the Bolero
Director
In the Year 2000
Director
Outwitted by Horse and Lariat
Director
Clown, Dog and Balloon
Director
The Game-Keeper's Son
Director
For Love of the Flag
Director
An Obstacle Course
Director
Wonderful Absinthe
Director
Across the Mexican Line
Director
The High Cost of Living
Director
Danse Fleur de Lotus
Director
Dranem Performs The True Jiu-Jitsu
Director
Greater Love Hath No Man
Director
Dranem Performs "Five O'Clock Tea"
Director
Burstup Homes' Murder Case
Director
What Is a Flag?
Director
When Marian was Married
Director
Playing Trumps
Director
Turn-of-the-Century Surgery
Director
A Severe Test
Director
Cousins of Sherlocko
Director
The Pit and the Pendulum
Director
The Rolling Bed
Director
The Mouse in the Crinoline
Director
What Will People Say?
Director
His Mother's Hymn
Director
Félix Mayol Performs "The Trottins' Polka"
Director
How Monsieur Takes His Bath
Director
The Hierarchies of Love
Director
Danse basque
Director
The Roads That Lead Home
Director
The Fight in the Dark
Director
Writing (18)
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
Writer
The Consequences of Feminism
Writer
Falling Leaves
Writer
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
Writer
The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ
Writer
Madame's Cravings
Writer
House of Cards
Writer
Fra Diavolo
Writer
Making an American Citizen
Writer
My Madonna
Writer
The Dream Woman
Screenplay
Dick Whittington and His Cat
Writer
The Empress
Writer
A Priest's Conscience
Writer
Beasts of the Jungle
Writer
The Lure
Writer
The Woman of Mystery
Scenario Writer
Greater Love Hath No Man
Writer
Producing (20)
Tarnished Reputations
Producer
Algie, the Miner
Producer
The Girl in the Arm-Chair
Producer
Canned Harmony
Producer
A House Divided
Producer
A Fool and His Money
Producer
Making an American Citizen
Producer
Matrimony's Speed Limit
Producer
The Vampire
Producer
Beasts of the Jungle
Producer
A Comedy of Errors
Producer
Dublin Dan
Producer
Barbara Frietchie
Producer
Midwife to the Upper Class
Producer
The Scarlet Woman
Producer
Cupid and the Comet
Producer
The Woman of Mystery
Producer
Greater Love Hath No Man
Executive Producer
The Sewer
Producer
The Roads That Lead Home
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