Alice Guy-Blaché
Directing
Born 1873-07-01
Died 1968-03-24
Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France
192 credits
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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
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Directing
55 credits
Tramp Strategy
Esmeralda
The Dirigible 'Homeland'
Starting Something
Falling Leaves
Ballet Libella
Burstup Homes
Tarnished Reputations
At the Hypnotist's
Madame's Cravings
At the Club
Butterfly Dances
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
The Thief
Félix Mayol Performs "White Lilacs"
His Double
The Cleaning Man
The Malagueña and the Bullfighter
Spain
The Stepmother
A Sticky Woman
The Consequences of Feminism
Canned Harmony
A House Divided
Entrée Et Sortie De La Mine
Ocean Studies
The Fisherman at the Stream
On the Barricade
Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder
Algie, the Miner
Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
The Bricklayers
Tango
Matrimony's Speed Limit
Officer Henderson
Heart of a Painted Woman
Serpentine Dance by Mme. Bob Walter
A Fool and His Money
The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ
Disappearing Act
The Sock
The Magician's Alms
The Girl in the Arm-Chair
Faust
Fantastic Flowers
The Ocean Waif
The Great Adventure
Pierrette's Escapades
Cupid and the Comet
The Glue
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
Polin Performs "The Anatomy of a Draftee"
The Violin Maker of Nuremberg
The Drunken Mattress
Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance
Producing
8 credits
Tarnished Reputations
Canned Harmony
A House Divided
Algie, the Miner
Matrimony's Speed Limit
A Fool and His Money
The Girl in the Arm-Chair
Cupid and the Comet
Acting
7 credits
Cinépanorama
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Spain
Imitation of Waves - Guy's Visions
Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché
Writing
6 credits
Falling Leaves
Madame's Cravings
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
The Consequences of Feminism
The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
Other credits
1 credit
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