Alice Guy-Blaché

Known For: Directing
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: July 1, 1873
Day of Death: March 24, 1968 (95 years old)
Place of Birth: Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France
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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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

Producer
A House Divided

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The Coming of Sunbeam

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The Roads That Lead Home

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The Roads That Lead Home

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Beasts of the Jungle

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Dick Whittington and His Cat

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Dick Whittington and His Cat

Producer
Matrimony's Speed Limit

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The Thief

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Cousins of Sherlocko

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Officer Henderson
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Kelly from the Emerald Isle
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The Rogues of Paris
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The Rogues of Paris

Producer
Beasts of the Jungle
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Burstup Homes
1912
Actor The Cause
A Solax Celebration

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Making an American Citizen

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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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Algie, the Miner

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Two Little Rangers

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Falling Leaves

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A Fool and His Money

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A Fool and His Money

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Algie, the Miner

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Canned Harmony

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The Detective's Dog

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His Double

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The Girl in the Arm-Chair

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The High Cost of Living
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The New Love And The Old
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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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Fra Diavolo

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Making an American Citizen

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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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The Sewer

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Broken Oaths

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Dublin Dan
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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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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
Producer
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

Producer
A Comedy of Errors
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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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The Equine Spy
1911

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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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Greater Love Hath No Man

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Starting Something

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Cupid and the Comet

Executive Producer
Greater Love Hath No Man
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The Violin Maker of Nuremberg

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Outwitted by Horse and Lariat
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1907

Actor Herself, the director
Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris

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On the Barricade

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The Dirigible 'Homeland'

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The Race for the Sausage

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The Glue

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A Four-Year-Old Heroine

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The Rolling Bed

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The Irresistible Piano

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The Banknote

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The Cleaning Man
1906
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Mireille

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A Sticky Woman

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Madame's Cravings

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The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ
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The Hierarchies of Love
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An Obstacle Course

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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 Truth Behind the Ape-Man

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The Parish Priest's Christmas

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The Consequences of Feminism

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The Drunken Mattress

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The Mouse in the Crinoline

Writer
The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ

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A Sticky Woman
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L'Honneur du Corse

Writer
The Consequences of Feminism

Writer
Madame's Cravings
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Les Druides

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A Priest's Conscience

Writer
A Priest's Conscience

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A Story Well Spun
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The Sock
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Mireille
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Course de taureaux
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The Fairy of Spring
1905
Actor Self - Presenter
Spain

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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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Cook & Rilly's Trained Rooster

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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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Déménagement à la cloche de bois

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Esmeralda

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Cake Walk, Performed by Nouveau Cirque

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In a Bamboo Hut

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Tango
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1900

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Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder

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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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Turn-of-the-Century Surgery

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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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Danse Serpentine (In a Lion's Cage)

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Little Tich and His Funny Feet
Scenario Writer
Coucher d'une Parisienne
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Coucher d'une Parisienne

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The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
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Gavotte directoire