Alice Guy-Blaché
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- July 1, 1873
- Died
- March 24, 1968 (aged 94)
- Birthplace
- Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France
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.
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Filmography
Alice Guy - 13 Courts-métrages
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Shadows of the Moulin Rouge
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Fantastic Flowers
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Butterfly Dances
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Gaumont Treasures 1897-1913
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Tarnished Reputations
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The Great Adventure
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The Adventurer
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House of Cards
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The Empress
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Behind the Mask
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When You and I Were Young
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A Man and the Woman
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The Ocean Waif
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What Will People Say?
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The Scarlet Woman
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My Madonna
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Heart of a Painted Woman
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The Vampire
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The Song of the Wage Slave
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The Tigress
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The Woman of Mystery
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The Monster and the Girl
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The Lure
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The Dream Woman
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Matrimony's Speed Limit
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Burstup Homes' Murder Case
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A House Divided
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The Pit and the Pendulum
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Napoleon
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A Severe Test
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The Coming of Sunbeam
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The Roads That Lead Home
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Dick Whittington and His Cat
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The Thief
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Cousins of Sherlocko
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Officer Henderson
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The Rogues of Paris
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Burstup Homes
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The Hater of Women
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Playing Trumps
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Falling Leaves
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Canned Harmony
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Making an American Citizen
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The Girl in the Arm-Chair
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In the Year 2000
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Two Little Rangers
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A Fool and His Money
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Algie, the Miner
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The Detective's Dog
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His Double
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The High Cost of Living
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The New Love And The Old
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God Disposes
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Fra Diavolo
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For Love of the Flag
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A Terrible Lesson
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Frozen on Love's Trail
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A Comedy of Errors
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Parson Sue
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A Man's a Man
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The Strike
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Broken Oaths
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The Face at the Window
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Mignon
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Mrs. Cranston's Jewels
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Hubby Does the Washing
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Blighted Lives
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Child of the Tenements
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The Reformation of Mary
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The Wooing of Alice
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Souls in the Shadow
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Phantom Paradise
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Treasures on the Wing
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The Love of the Flag
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Hearts Unknown
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The Woman Behind the Man
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The Fight in the Dark
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Someone's Luck Society
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A Solax Celebration
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When Marian was Married
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Greater Love Hath No Man
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Across the Mexican Line
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Cupid and the Comet
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Tramp Strategy
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His Mother's Hymn
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Mixed Pets
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Starting Something
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The Violin Maker of Nuremberg
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Outwitted by Horse and Lariat
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From the Valley of Shadows
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What Is a Flag?
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The Race for the Sausage
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The Banknote
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Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
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On the Barricade
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Madame's Cravings
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The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ
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Dranem Performs "Five O'Clock Tea"
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The Stepmother
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Ocean Studies
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The Game-Keeper's Son
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The Consequences of Feminism
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The Drunken Mattress
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The Mouse in the Crinoline
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L'Honneur du Corse
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The Druids
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A Priest's Conscience
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Mireille
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Course de taureaux
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The Dirigible 'Homeland'
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The Hierarchies of Love
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A Sticky Woman
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An Obstacle Course
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Man Monkey
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Een kleine detective
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Anna, what are you waiting for?
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Félix Mayol Performs "The Trottins' Polka"
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Le Cake-walk de nouveau cirque
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Félix Mayol Performs "White Lilacs"
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Dranem Performs The True Jiu-Jitsu
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Félix Mayol Performs "Indiscreet Questions"
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Saharet Performs the Bolero
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Polin Performs "The Anatomy of a Draftee"
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The Statue
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The Bricklayers
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Spain
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The Magician's Alms
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Clown, Dog and Balloon
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Faust
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The Malagueña and the Bullfighter
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Esmeralda
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In a Bamboo Hut
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The Sock
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The Fairy of Spring
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Tango
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The Crime on Temple Street
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The First Cigarette
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Token of Love
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How Monsieur Takes His Bath
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Faust and Mephistopheles
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Eccentric Dance
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Midwife to the Upper Class
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Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs
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Danse fantaisiste
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La Gigue
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Serpentine Dance
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Les malabares: Les acrobats
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An Untimely Intrusion
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Danse basque
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The Landlady
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At the Photographer's
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Avenue de l'Opéra
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Pierrette's Escapades
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The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
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Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance
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At the Floral Ball
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Danse du papillon
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Coucher d'une Parisienne
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Gavotte directoire
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Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder
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At the Club
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Wonderful Absinthe
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Entrée Et Sortie De La Mine
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Disappearing Act
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At the Hypnotist's
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The Burglars
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The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man
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Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak
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Bathing in a Stream
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Serpentine Dance by Mme. Bob Walter
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Danse Fleur de Lotus
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Ballet Libella
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The Fisherman at the Stream
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The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
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