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  • BIRTH 01/07/1873
  • DEATH 24/03/1968
  • Country France
  • MOVIES 4
  • DIRECTOR 25
  • SCRIPT 3
  • PRODUCTION 1

Alice Guy-Blaché

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.

Alice Guy-Blaché

Movies (4)

Le jardin oublié: La vie et l'oeuvre d'Alice Guy-Blaché
Le jardin oublié: La vie et l'oeuvre…
Self (archive footage)
La fée aux choux
La fée aux choux
Et la femme créa Hollywood
Et la femme créa Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Alice Guy, l'inconnue du 7ème art
Alice Guy, l'inconnue du 7ème art
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Director (25)

L'aveugle fin de siècle
L'aveugle fin de siècle
Baignade dans le torrent
Baignade dans le torrent
Danse excentrique
Danse excentrique
Miss Dundee et ses chiens savants
Miss Dundee et ses chiens savants
Le Piano irrésistible
Le Piano irrésistible
Le coq dressé de Cook et Rilly
Le coq dressé de Cook et Rilly
La vérité sur l'homme-singe
La vérité sur l'homme-singe
Lilas blanc
Lilas blanc
Falling Leaves
Falling Leaves
Scène d'escamotage
Scène d'escamotage
Les cambrioleurs
Les cambrioleurs
Chez le magnétiseur
Chez le magnétiseur
Le pêcheur dans le torrent
Le pêcheur dans le torrent
Une héroïne de quatre ans
Une héroïne de quatre ans
Danse serpentine par Mme. Bob Walter
Danse serpentine par Mme. Bob Walter
Le billet de banque
Le billet de banque
Le vrai jiu-jitsu
Le vrai jiu-jitsu
Danse des saisons
Danse des saisons
Sage-femme de première classe
Sage-femme de première classe
La Glu
La Glu
The Lure
The Lure
Au cabaret
Au cabaret
Au Bal de flore
Au Bal de flore
Chapellerie et charcuterie mécanique
Chapellerie et charcuterie mécanique
La fée aux choux
La fée aux choux

Script (3)

The Lure
The Lure
La fée aux choux
La fée aux choux
Falling Leaves
Falling Leaves

Production

Sage-femme de première classe
Sage-femme de première classe