Alice Guy-Blaché

Known for Directing

Alice Guy-Blaché's portrait

Details

Birthday: July 01, 1873

Deathday: March 24, 1968

Place of birth: 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.

Actress

2021

Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker

2018

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

2016

The Women Who Run Hollywood

1995

The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché

1976

Qui est Alice Guy?

1912

A Solax Celebration

1907

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

1906

Mireille

1905

Spain

1896

The Cabbage-Patch Fairy

1895

Animated Portrait Shot by L and A Lumière

Director

2025

Fantastic Flowers

2007

Butterfly Dances

2005

Gaumont Treasures 1897-1913

1970

Alice Guy - 13 Courts-métrages

1970

Shadows of the Moulin Rouge

1920

Tarnished Reputations

1918

The Great Adventure

1917

The Adventurer

1917

House of Cards

1917

The Empress

1917

Behind the Mask

1917

When You and I Were Young

1916

The Ocean Waif

1916

What Will People Say?

1916

The Scarlet Woman

1915

My Madonna

1915

Heart of a Painted Woman

1915

The Vampire

1915

The Song of the Wage Slave

1914

The Tigress

1914

The Woman of Mystery

1914

The Monster and the Girl

1914

The Lure

1914

The Dream Woman

1913

Matrimony's Speed Limit

1913

Burstup Homes' Murder Case

1913

A House Divided

1913

The Pit and the Pendulum

1913

Napoleon

1913

A Severe Test

1913

The Coming of Sunbeam

1913

The Roads That Lead Home

1913

Dick Whittington and His Cat

1913

The Thief

1913

Cousins of Sherlocko

1913

Officer Henderson

1913

The Rogues of Paris

1913

Burstup Homes

1912

Playing Trumps

1912

The Hater of Women

1912

Falling Leaves

1912

Canned Harmony

1912

Making an American Citizen

1912

The Girl in the Arm-Chair

1912

In the Year 2000

1912

Two Little Rangers

1912

A Fool and His Money

1912

Algie, the Miner

1912

The Detective's Dog

1912

His Double

1912

The High Cost of Living

1912

The New Love And The Old

1912

God Disposes

1912

Fra Diavolo

1912

For Love of the Flag

1912

A Terrible Lesson

1912

Frozen on Love's Trail

1912

A Comedy of Errors

1912

Parson Sue

1912

A Man's a Man

1912

The Strike

1912

Broken Oaths

1912

The Face at the Window

1912

Mignon

1912

Mrs. Cranston's Jewels

1912

Hubby Does the Washing

1912

Blighted Lives

1912

Child of the Tenements

1912

The Reformation of Mary

1912

The Wooing of Alice

1912

Souls in the Shadow

1912

Phantom Paradise

1912

Treasures on the Wing

1912

The Love of the Flag

1912

Hearts Unknown

1912

The Woman Behind the Man

1912

The Fight in the Dark

1912

Someone's Luck Society

1912

A Solax Celebration

1911

When Marian was Married

1911

Greater Love Hath No Man

1911

Across the Mexican Line

1911

Cupid and the Comet

1911

Tramp Strategy

1911

His Mother's Hymn

1911

Mixed Pets

1911

Starting Something

1911

The Violin Maker of Nuremberg

1911

Outwitted by Horse and Lariat

1911

From the Valley of Shadows

1909

What Is a Flag?

1907

Madame's Cravings

1907

The Race for the Sausage

1907

The Banknote

1907

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

1907

The Glue

1907

The Rolling Bed

1907

The Irresistible Piano

1907

On the Barricade

1907

The Fur Hat

1907

The Cleaning Man

1906

Dranem Performs "Five O'Clock Tea"

1906

The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ

1906

The Stepmother

1906

The Drunken Mattress

1906

The Consequences of Feminism

1906

Ocean Studies

1906

The Game-Keeper's Son

1906

The Mouse in the Crinoline

1906

L'Honneur du Corse

1906

Les Druides

1906

A Priest's Conscience

1906

Mireille

1906

Course de taureaux

1906

The Dirigible 'Homeland'

1906

The Hierarchies of Love

1906

A Sticky Woman

1906

An Obstacle Course

1906

A Story Well Spun

1906

The Parish Priest's Christmas

1906

Man Monkey

1905

Le Cake-walk de nouveau cirque

1905

Saharet Performs the Bolero

1905

Polin Performs "The Anatomy of a Draftee"

1905

Dranem Performs The True Jiu-Jitsu

1905

Félix Mayol Performs "Indiscreet Questions"

1905

Félix Mayol Performs "The Trottins' Polka"

1905

Félix Mayol Performs "White Lilacs"

1905

The Bricklayers

1905

The Statue

1905

The Magician's Alms

1905

Clown, Dog and Balloon

1905

Spain

1905

Faust

1905

The Malagueña and the Bullfighter

1905

Esmeralda

1905

In a Bamboo Hut

1905

The Sock

1905

The Fairy of Spring

1905

Tango

1904

The First Cigarette

1904

The Crime on Temple Street

1904

Token of Love

1903

How Monsieur Takes His Bath

1903

Faust and Mephistopheles

1902

Eccentric Dance

1902

Midwife to the Upper Class

1902

Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs

1902

La Gigue

1902

Danse fantaisiste

1902

Serpentine Dance

1902

Les malabares: Les acrobats

1902

An Untimely Intrusion

1901

Danse basque

1900

Avenue de l'Opéra

1900

At the Photographer's

1900

Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance

1900

The Landlady

1900

Turn-of-the-Century Surgery

1900

Pierrette's Escapades

1900

At the Floral Ball

1900

The Cabbage-Patch Fairy

1900

Danse du papillon

1900

Danse Serpentine (In a Lion's Cage)

1900

Coucher d'une Parisienne

1900

Gavotte directoire

1900

Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder

1899

At the Club

1899

Wonderful Absinthe

1899

Entrée Et Sortie De La Mine

1898

At the Hypnotist's

1898

Disappearing Act

1898

The Burglars

1898

The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man

1898

Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak

1897

Bathing in a Stream

1897

Serpentine Dance by Mme. Bob Walter

1897

Danse Fleur de Lotus

1897

Ballet Libella

1897

The Fisherman at the Stream

1896

The Cabbage-Patch Fairy

Writer

1970

Shadows of the Moulin Rouge

1917

The Empress

1917

House of Cards

1915

My Madonna

1914

The Lure

1913

Dick Whittington and His Cat

1913

Beasts of the Jungle

1913

Kelly from the Emerald Isle

1912

Falling Leaves

1912

Fra Diavolo

1912

Making an American Citizen

1911

Greater Love Hath No Man

1907

Madame's Cravings

1906

The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ

1906

The Consequences of Feminism

1906

A Priest's Conscience

1900

The Cabbage-Patch Fairy

1896

The Cabbage-Patch Fairy