Alice Guy-Blaché

Directing·Jul 1, 1873·Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France

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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.

Film	Credit
Fantastic Flowers2025 · Director	Director
BButterfly Dances2007 · Director	Director
Gaumont Treasures 1897-19132005 · Director	Director
Tarnished Reputations1920 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Great Adventure1918 · Director	Director
Behind the Mask1917 · Director	Director
When You and I Were Young1917 · Director	Director
House of Cards1917 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Empress1917 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Adventurer1917 · Director	Director
The Ocean Waif1916 · Director	Director
The Scarlet Woman1916 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
What Will People Say?1916 · Director	Director
My Madonna1915 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Song of the Wage Slave1915 · Director	Director
The Vampire1915 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
Heart of a Painted Woman1915 · Director	Director
The Tigress1914 · Director	Director
The Lure1914 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The Woman of Mystery1914 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
TThe Monster and the Girl1914 · Director	Director
The Dream Woman1914 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
TThe Rogues of Paris1913 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Pit and the Pendulum1913 · Director	Director
Matrimony's Speed Limit1913 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
A House Divided1913 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
A Severe Test1913 · Director	Director
Dick Whittington and His Cat1913 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Burstup Homes' Murder Case1913 · Director	Director
Officer Henderson1913 · Director	Director
NNapoleon1913 · Director	Director
BBurstup Homes1913 · Director	Director
The Thief1913 · Director	Director
The Coming of Sunbeam1913 · Director	Director
The Roads That Lead Home1913 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
Cousins of Sherlocko1913 · Director	Director
TThe Woman Behind the Man1912 · Director	Director
HHearts Unknown1912 · Director	Director
The Girl in the Arm-Chair1912 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Hater of Women1912 · Director	Director
TThe Face at the Window1912 · Director	Director
A Comedy of Errors1912 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
TThe New Love And The Old1912 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Making an American Citizen1912 · Producer, Director, Writer	Producer, Director, Writer
The High Cost of Living1912 · Director	Director
Canned Harmony1912 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
TThe Love of the Flag1912 · Director	Director
TTreasures on the Wing1912 · Director	Director
The Fight in the Dark1912 · Director	Director
Playing Trumps1912 · Director	Director
His Double1912 · Director	Director
PPhantom Paradise1912 · Director	Director
The Strike1912 · Director	Director
Two Little Rangers1912 · Director	Director
Broken Oaths1912 · Director	Director
For Love of the Flag1912 · Director	Director
Fra Diavolo1912 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
In the Year 20001912 · Director	Director
Souls in the Shadow1912 · Director	Director
TThe Wooing of Alice1912 · Director	Director
TThe Reformation of Mary1912 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
CChild of the Tenements1912 · Director	Director
Falling Leaves1912 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
BBlighted Lives1912 · Director	Director
Algie, the Miner1912 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
GGod Disposes1912 · Director	Director
HHubby Does the Washing1912 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Detective's Dog1912 · Director	Director
A Terrible Lesson1912 · Director	Director
MMrs. Cranston's Jewels1912 · Director	Director
MMignon1912 · Director	Director
Frozen on Love's Trail1912 · Director	Director
A Man's a Man1912 · Director	Director
Parson Sue1912 · Director	Director
AA Solax Celebration1912 · The Cause, Director	The Cause, Director
A Fool and His Money1912 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
SSomeone's Luck Society1912 · Director	Director
TThe Violin Maker of Nuremberg1911 · Director	Director
His Mother's Hymn1911 · Director	Director
Outwitted by Horse and Lariat1911 · Director	Director
Starting Something1911 · Director	Director
Greater Love Hath No Man1911 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Cupid and the Comet1911 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Across the Mexican Line1911 · Director	Director
Tramp Strategy1911 · Director	Director
FFrom the Valley of Shadows1911 · Director	Director
Mixed Pets1911 · Director	Director
When Marian was Married1911 · Director	Director
What Is a Flag?1909 · Director	Director
The Banknote1907 · Director	Director
The Race for the Sausage1907 · Director	Director
Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris1907 · Director	Director
The Consequences of Feminism1906 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Man Monkey1906 · Director	Director
The Dirigible 'Homeland'1906 · Director	Director
Dranem Performs "Five O'Clock Tea"1906 · Director	Director
The Drunken Mattress1906 · Director	Director
The Stepmother1906 · Director	Director
The Hierarchies of Love1906 · Director	Director
A Sticky Woman1906 · Director	Director
The Mouse in the Crinoline1906 · Director	Director
Madame's Cravings1906 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
TThe Druids1906 · Director	Director
LL'Honneur du Corse1906 · Director	Director
The Game-Keeper's Son1906 · Director	Director
A Priest's Conscience1906 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
CCourse de taureaux1906 · Director	Director
MMireille1906 · Actor, Director	Actor, Director
The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ1906 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
An Obstacle Course1906 · Director	Director
Ocean Studies1906 · Director	Director
TThe Sock1905 · Director	Director
Esmeralda1905 · Director	Director
TThe Fairy of Spring1905 · Director	Director
The Magician's Alms1905 · Director	Director
Tango1905 · Director	Director
The Statue1905 · Director	Director
Spain1905 · Director	Director
The Bricklayers1905 · Director	Director
Clown, Dog and Balloon1905 · Director	Director
Félix Mayol Performs "The Trottins' Polka"1905 · Director	Director
Le Cake-walk de nouveau cirque1905 · Director	Director
Félix Mayol Performs "White Lilacs"1905 · Director	Director
Dranem Performs The True Jiu-Jitsu1905 · Director	Director
Félix Mayol Performs "Indiscreet Questions"1905 · Director	Director
Saharet Performs the Bolero1905 · Director	Director
Polin Performs "The Anatomy of a Draftee"1905 · Director	Director
FFaust1905 · Director	Director
The Malagueña and the Bullfighter1905 · Director	Director
In a Bamboo Hut1905 · Director	Director
TThe Crime on Temple Street1904 · Director	Director
Token of Love1904 · Director	Director
TThe First Cigarette1904 · Director	Director
Faust and Mephistopheles1903 · Director	Director
How Monsieur Takes His Bath1903 · Director	Director
An Untimely Intrusion1902 · Director	Director
Midwife to the Upper Class1902 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
LLes malabares: Les acrobats1902 · Director	Director
LLa Gigue1902 · Director	Director
DDanse fantaisiste1902 · Director	Director
Eccentric Dance1902 · Director	Director
Serpentine Dance1902 · Director	Director
Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs1902 · Director	Director
Danse basque1901 · Director	Director
Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance1900 · Director	Director
CCoucher d'une Parisienne1900 · Director	Director
At the Photographer's1900 · Director	Director
At the Floral Ball1900 · Director	Director
The Landlady1900 · Director	Director
Avenue de l'Opéra1900 · Director	Director
Pierrette's Escapades1900 · Director	Director
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy1900 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Turn-of-the-Century Surgery1900 · Director	Director
DDanse du papillon1900 · Director	Director
GGavotte directoire1900 · Director	Director
Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder1900 · Director	Director
At the Club1899 · Director	Director
Wonderful Absinthe1899 · Director	Director
EEntrée Et Sortie De La Mine1899 · Director	Director
Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak1898 · Director	Director
Disappearing Act1898 · Director	Director
At the Hypnotist's1898 · Director	Director
The Burglars1898 · Director	Director
The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man1898 · Director	Director
Danse Fleur de Lotus1897 · Director	Director
Ballet Libella1897 · Director	Director
The Fisherman at the Stream1897 · Director	Director
Bathing in a Stream1897 · Director	Director
Serpentine Dance by Mme. Bob Walter1897 · Director	Director
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy1896 · Actor, Director of Photography, Director, Writer	Actor, Director of Photography, Director, Writer
Alice Guy - 13 Courts-métragesDirector	Director
SShadows of the Moulin RougeDirector, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer