Alice Guy-Blaché

Known for: Directing
Born: July 1, 1873, Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France
Died: March 24, 1968
Movies: 190

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.

Upcoming Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

10.0

Alice Guy - 13 Courts-métrages

Release date TBA

Best-Known Movies

5.2

The Cabbage-Patch Fairy

1896

6.6

Falling Leaves

1912

6.2

The Consequences of Feminism

1906

7.2

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

2018

5.8

Madame's Cravings

1906

5.8

Matrimony's Speed Limit

1913

5.0

The Cabbage-Patch Fairy

1900

5.2

Pierrette's Escapades

1900

4.7

At the Hypnotist's

1898

4.9

Algie, the Miner

1912

Filmography

2021	Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker	Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2018	Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché	Self (archive footage)
2016	The Women Who Run Hollywood	Self (archive footage)
1995	The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché	Self (archive footage)
1976	Qui est Alice Guy?	Self
1912	A Solax Celebration	The Cause
1907	Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris	Herself, the director
1906	Mireille
1905	Spain	Self - Presenter
1896	The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
1895	Animated Portrait Shot by L and A Lumière	Herself

Directing, Writing & Producing

2025	Fantastic Flowers	Director
2007	Butterfly Dances	Director
2005	Gaumont Treasures 1897-1913	Director
1920	Tarnished Reputations	Director, Producer
1918	The Great Adventure	Director
1917	Behind the Mask	Director
1917	When You and I Were Young	Director
1917	House of Cards	Director, Writer
1917	A Man and the Woman	Director, Screenplay
1917	The Empress	Director, Writer
1917	The Adventurer	Director
1916	The Ocean Waif	Director
1916	The Scarlet Woman	Director, Producer
1916	What Will People Say?	Director
1915	Barbara Frietchie	Producer
1915	My Madonna	Director, Writer
1915	The Song of the Wage Slave	Director
1915	The Vampire	Director, Producer
1915	Heart of a Painted Woman	Director
1914	The Tigress	Director
1914	The Lure	Director, Writer
1914	The Woman of Mystery	Director, Producer
1914	The Monster and the Girl	Director
1914	The Dream Woman	Director, Screenplay
1913	The Rogues of Paris	Director, Producer
1913	The Pit and the Pendulum	Director
1913	Matrimony's Speed Limit	Director, Producer
1913	Kelly from the Emerald Isle	Writer
1913	A House Divided	Director, Producer
1913	A Severe Test	Director
1913	Dick Whittington and His Cat	Writer, Director
1913	Burstup Homes' Murder Case	Director
1913	Officer Henderson	Director
1913	Napoleon	Director
1913	Burstup Homes	Director
1913	The Thief	Director
1913	The Coming of Sunbeam	Director
1913	The Roads That Lead Home	Director, Producer
1913	Beasts of the Jungle	Writer, Producer
1913	Cousins of Sherlocko	Director
1912	The Woman Behind the Man	Director
1912	Hearts Unknown	Director
1912	The Girl in the Arm-Chair	Director, Producer
1912	The Hater of Women	Director
1912	The Face at the Window	Director
1912	A Comedy of Errors	Director, Producer
1912	The New Love And The Old	Director, Producer
1912	Making an American Citizen	Producer, Director, Writer
1912	The High Cost of Living	Director
1912	Canned Harmony	Director, Producer
1912	The Love of the Flag	Director
1912	Treasures on the Wing	Director
1912	The Fight in the Dark	Director
1912	Dublin Dan	Producer
1912	Playing Trumps	Director
1912	His Double	Director
1912	Phantom Paradise	Director
1912	The Equine Spy	Producer
1912	The Strike	Director
1912	Two Little Rangers	Director
1912	Broken Oaths	Director
1912	For Love of the Flag	Director
1912	Fra Diavolo	Director, Writer
1912	In the Year 2000	Director
1912	Souls in the Shadow	Director
1912	The Wooing of Alice	Director
1912	The Reformation of Mary	Director, Producer
1912	The Sewer	Producer
1912	Child of the Tenements	Director
1912	Falling Leaves	Director, Writer
1912	Blighted Lives	Director
1912	Algie, the Miner	Producer, Director
1912	God Disposes	Director
1912	Hubby Does the Washing	Director, Producer
1912	The Detective's Dog	Director
1912	A Terrible Lesson	Director
1912	Mrs. Cranston's Jewels	Director
1912	Mignon	Director
1912	Frozen on Love's Trail	Director
1912	A Man's a Man	Director
1912	Parson Sue	Director
1912	A Fool and His Money	Director, Producer
1912	Someone's Luck Society	Director
1912	A Solax Celebration	Director
1911	The Violin Maker of Nuremberg	Director
1911	His Mother's Hymn	Director
1911	Outwitted by Horse and Lariat	Director
1911	Starting Something	Director
1911	Greater Love Hath No Man	Director, Writer
1911	Cupid and the Comet	Director, Producer
1911	Across the Mexican Line	Director
1911	Tramp Strategy	Director
1911	From the Valley of Shadows	Director
1911	Mixed Pets	Director
1911	When Marian was Married	Director
1909	What Is a Flag?	Director
1907	On the Barricade	Director
1907	The Banknote	Director
1907	The Race for the Sausage	Director
1907	Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris	Director
1906	The Consequences of Feminism	Director, Writer
1906	Man Monkey	Director
1906	The Dirigible 'Homeland'	Director
1906	Dranem Performs "Five O'Clock Tea"	Director
1906	The Drunken Mattress	Director
1906	The Stepmother	Director
1906	The Hierarchies of Love	Director
1906	A Sticky Woman	Director
1906	The Mouse in the Crinoline	Director
1906	Madame's Cravings	Director, Writer
1906	The Druids	Director
1906	L'Honneur du Corse	Director
1906	The Game-Keeper's Son	Director
1906	A Priest's Conscience	Director, Writer
1906	Course de taureaux	Director
1906	Mireille	Director
1906	The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ	Director, Writer
1906	An Obstacle Course	Director
1906	Ocean Studies	Director
1906	Een kleine detective	Director
1905	The Sock	Director
1905	Esmeralda	Director
1905	The Fairy of Spring	Director
1905	The Magician's Alms	Director
1905	Tango	Director
1905	The Statue	Director
1905	Spain	Director
1905	The Bricklayers	Director
1905	Clown, Dog and Balloon	Director
1905	Le Cake-walk de nouveau cirque	Director
1905	Saharet Performs the Bolero	Director
1905	Polin Performs "The Anatomy of a Draftee"	Director
1905	Dranem Performs The True Jiu-Jitsu	Director
1905	Félix Mayol Performs "Indiscreet Questions"	Director
1905	Félix Mayol Performs "The Trottins' Polka"	Director
1905	Félix Mayol Performs "White Lilacs"	Director
1905	Faust	Director
1905	The Malagueña and the Bullfighter	Director
1905	In a Bamboo Hut	Director
1904	The Crime on Temple Street	Director
1904	Token of Love	Director
1904	The First Cigarette	Director
1903	Faust and Mephistopheles	Director
1903	How Monsieur Takes His Bath	Director
1902	An Untimely Intrusion	Director
1902	Midwife to the Upper Class	Director, Producer
1902	Les malabares: Les acrobats	Director
1902	La Gigue	Director
1902	Danse fantaisiste	Director
1902	Eccentric Dance	Director
1902	Serpentine Dance	Director
1902	Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs	Director
1901	Danse basque	Director
1900	Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance	Director
1900	Coucher d'une Parisienne	Director
1900	At the Photographer's	Director
1900	At the Floral Ball	Director
1900	Avenue de l'Opéra	Director
1900	The Landlady	Director
1900	Turn-of-the-Century Surgery	Director
1900	Pierrette's Escapades	Director
1900	The Cabbage-Patch Fairy	Director, Writer
1900	Danse du papillon	Director
1900	Gavotte directoire	Director
1900	Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder	Director
1899	At the Club	Director
1899	Wonderful Absinthe	Director
1899	Entrée Et Sortie De La Mine	Director
1898	Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak	Director
1898	At the Hypnotist's	Director
1898	Disappearing Act	Director
1898	The Burglars	Director
1898	The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man	Director
1897	Danse Fleur de Lotus	Director
1897	Ballet Libella	Director
1897	The Fisherman at the Stream	Director
1897	Bathing in a Stream	Director
1897	Serpentine Dance by Mme. Bob Walter	Director
1896	The Cabbage-Patch Fairy	Director, Writer

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