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
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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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Dick Whittington and His Cat
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Dick Whittington and His Cat
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Beasts of the Jungle
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Matrimony's Speed Limit
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The Thief
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Officer Henderson
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Cousins of Sherlocko
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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
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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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Playing Trumps
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The Hater of Women
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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
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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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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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Cupid and the Comet
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Across the Mexican Line
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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
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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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Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
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The Glue
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A Four-Year-Old Heroine
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On the Barricade
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The Rolling Bed
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The Dirigible 'Homeland'
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The Race for the Sausage
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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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The Consequences of Feminism
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An Obstacle Course
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The Game-Keeper's Son
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The Truth Behind the Ape-Man
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The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ
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The Drunken Mattress
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Madame's Cravings
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The Stepmother
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Ocean Studies
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Dranem Performs "Five O'Clock Tea"
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The Hierarchies of Love
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The Parish Priest's Christmas
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The Mouse in the Crinoline
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The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ
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A Sticky Woman
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L'Honneur du Corse
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Madame's Cravings
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The Consequences of Feminism
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Les Druides
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A Priest's Conscience
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A Priest's Conscience
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A Story Well Spun
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La chaussette
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Mireille
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Course de taureaux à Nîmes
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The Fairy of Spring
1905
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Saharet Performs the Bolero
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Dranem Performs The True Jiu-Jitsu
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Félix Mayol Performs "The Trottins' Polka"
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Cook & Rilly's Trained Rooster
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Le Cake-walk de nouveau cirque
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Félix Mayol Performs "White Lilacs"
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Polin Performs "The Anatomy of a Draftee"
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Félix Mayol Performs "Indiscreet Questions"
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The Magician's Alms
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The Statue
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The Bricklayers
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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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Le cireur distrait
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Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance
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At the Photographer's
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Pierrette's Escapades
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Turn-of-the-Century Surgery
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Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder
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The Landlady
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The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
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Avenue de l'Opéra
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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
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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
