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 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.
Filmography
all 174
Movies 173
Director 159
self 9
Producer 2
TV Shows 1
Writer 1
Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker (2021)
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)
The Women Who Run Hollywood (2016)
Charles Pathé et Léon Gaumont premiers géants du cinéma (2016)
Butterfly Dances (2007)
Gaumont Treasures 1897-1913 (2005)
Alice Guy-Blaché (1997)
The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché (1995)
Cinépanorama (1956)
The Great Adventure (1918)
House of Cards (1917)
The Empress (1917)
The Adventurer (1917)
The Ocean Waif (1916)
What Will People Say? (1916)
My Madonna (1915)
The Song of the Wage Slave (1915)
The Vampire (1915)
Heart of a Painted Woman (1915)
The Tigress (1914)
The Lure (1914)
The Woman of Mystery (1914)
The Monster and the Girl (1914)
The Dream Woman (1914)
Mr. Bruce Wins at Cards (1914)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1913)
Matrimony's Speed Limit (1913)
A House Divided (1913)
A Severe Test (1913)
Dick Whittington and His Cat (1913)
Burstup Homes' Murder Case (1913)
Officer Henderson (1913)
Napoleon (1913)
The Thief (1913)
The Coming of Sunbeam (1913)
The Roads That Lead Home (1913)
Cousins of Sherlocko (1913)
Beasts of the Jungle (1913)
The Girl in the Arm-Chair (1912)
The Hater of Women (1912)
A Comedy of Errors (1912)
The New Love And The Old (1912)
Making an American Citizen (1912)
The High Cost of Living (1912)
Canned Harmony (1912)
The Detective's Dog (1912)
Playing Trumps (1912)
His Double (1912)
The Strike (1912)
Two Little Rangers (1912)
Broken Oath (1912)
For Love of the Flag (1912)
Fra Diavolo (1912)
In the Year 2000 (1912)
The Sewer (1912)
Falling Leaves (1912)
Algie, the Miner (1912)
God Disposes (1912)
A Terrible Lesson (1912)
Frozen on Love's Trail (1912)
A Man's a Man (1912)
Parson Sue (1912)
A Fool and His Money (1912)
His Mother's Hymn (1911)
Greater Love Hath No Man (1911)
Cupid and the Comet (1911)
Across the Mexican Line (1911)
Tramp Strategy (1911)
Mixed Pets (1911)
Starting Something (1911)
When Marian was Married (1911)
The Standing Cock (1910)
What is a flag? (1909)
The Dirigible 'Homeland' (1907)
The Rolling Bed (1907)
The Glue (1907)
A Four-Year-Old Heroine (1907)
The Irresistible Piano (1907)
The Banknote (1907)
On the Barricade (1907)
Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris (1907)
Madame's Cravings (1907)
The Fur Hat (1907)
The Cleaning Man (1907)
The Race for the Sausage (1907)
The Drunken Mattress (1906)
Anna, what are you waiting for? (1906)
La crinoline (1906)
A Sticky Woman (1906)
The Fairy of Spring (1906)
La chaussette (1906)
A Priest's Conscience (1906)
Course de taureaux à Nîmes (1906)
Mireille (1906)
The Truth Behind the Ape-Man (1906)
The Stepmother (1906)
The Hierarchies of Love (1906)
The Game-Keeper's Son (1906)
The Consequences of Feminism (1906)
An Obstacle Course (1906)
The Parish Priest's Christmas (1906)
L'Honneur du Corse (1906)
A Story Well Spun (1906)
Ocean Studies (1906)
The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ (1906)
Good Evening, the Flower Fairy (1906)
Esmeralda (1905)
Le cireur distrait (1905)
Déménagement à la cloche de bois (1905)
The Statue (1905)
The Malagueña and the Bullfighter (1905)
The Magician's Alms (1905)
Clown, Dog and Balloon (1905)
In a Bamboo Hut (1905)
Félix Mayol Performs "White Lilacs" (1905)
Félix Mayol Performs "Indiscreet Questions" (1905)
Dranem Performs The True Jiu-Jitsu (1905)
Cake Walk, Performed by Nouveau Cirque (1905)
The O'Mers in 'The Bricklayers' (1905)
The Tango (1905)
Cake-walk nègre (1905)
Saharet Performs the Bolero (1905)
Félix Mayol Performs "The Trottins' Polka" (1905)
Polin Performs "The Anatomy of a Draftee" (1905)
Cook & Rilly's Trained Rooster (1905)
Spain (1905)
Faust (1905)
Dranem Performs "Five O'Clock Tea" (1905)
The First Cigarette (1904)
The Crime on Temple Street (1904)
Electrocution (1904)
Faust and Mephistopheles (1903)
How Monsieur Takes His Bath (1903)
Les malabares, acrobats (1902)
Serpentine Dance by Lina Esbrard (1902)
Serpentine Dance by Lina Esbrard (1902)
Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs (1902)
Midwife to the Upper Class (1902)
An Untimely Intrusion (1902)
Danse basque (1901)
Little Tich and His Funny Feet (1900)
Danse Serpentine (In a Lion's Cage) (1900)
Coucher d'une Parisienne (1900)
Turn-of-the-Century Surgery (1900)
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy (1900)
Pierrette's Escapades (1900)
Danse du papillon (1900)
The Landlady (1900)
At the Photographer's (1900)
At the Floral Ball (1900)
Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder (1900)
Foottit et Chocolat, IV. Guillaume Tell (1900)
Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance (1900)
Avenue de l'Opéra (1900)
At the Club (1899)
Wonderful Absinthe (1899)
La Sortie du Bain (1899)
Entrée Et Sortie De La Mine (1899)
L'utilité des rayons x (1898)
La cène (1898)
Disappearing Act (1898)
At the Hypnotist's (1898)
The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man (1898)
Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak (1898)
Danse Fleur de Lotus (1897)
Ballet Libella (1897)
Serpentine Dance by Mme. Bob Walter (1897)
The Fisherman at the Stream (1897)
The Burglars (1897)
Bathing in a Stream (1897)
L'arroseur arrosé (1897)
Les congierges (1896)
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy (1896)
Les démolisseurs (1896)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderFemale
Birthday1873-07-01
Deathday1968-03-24 (94 years old)
Birth NameAlice Guy
Birth PlaceSaint-Mandé, France
RelationshipsHerbert Blaché (1907-01-01 - 1922-01-01)
CitizenshipsFrance
Also Known AsAlice Guy Blaché, Alice Blaché, Madame Alice Blaché, Alice Guy-Blache , Alice Guy-Blaché, Alice Blache, Alice Guy Blache, Alice Guy
AwardsKnight of the Legion of Honour
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