Directing
Alice Guy-Blaché
EN, FR, XX cinema · 187 credits
Born
1 July 1873
Died
24 March 1968 (aged 94)
Birthplace
Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France
Also known as Alice Guy Blaché · Alice Blaché · Madame Alice Blaché · Alice Guy-Blache · Alice Blache · Alice Guy Blache
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.
Known for
Filmography
Shadows of the Moulin Rouge
Shadows of the Moulin Rouge
Director, Writer, Producer
Imitation of Waves - Guy's Visions
Cinematography
Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
as Self (archive footage)
The Women Who Run Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché
as Self (archive footage)
Tarnished Reputations
Director, Producer
The Adventurer
Director
House of Cards
Director, Writer
The Empress
Director, Writer
A Man and the Woman
1917
A Man and the Woman
Director, Screenplay
The Ocean Waif
Director
The Scarlet Woman
Director, Producer
My Madonna
Director, Writer
The Vampire
Producer, Director
The Tigress
Director
The Woman of Mystery
Director, Scenario Writer, Producer
The Lure
Writer, Director
The Dream Woman
Screenplay, Director
Matrimony's Speed Limit
Director, Producer
A House Divided
Director, Producer
A Severe Test
Director
The Roads That Lead Home
Producer, Director
Beasts of the Jungle
Writer, Producer
Dick Whittington and His Cat
Director, Writer
The Thief
Director
Cousins of Sherlocko
Director
Officer Henderson
Director
The Rogues of Paris
1913
The Rogues of Paris
Director, Producer
A Solax Celebration
1912
A Solax Celebration
as The Cause, Director
Making an American Citizen
Producer, Director, Writer
The Hater of Women
Director
Playing Trumps
Director
Falling Leaves
Director, Writer
Canned Harmony
Director, Producer
The Girl in the Arm-Chair
Director, Producer
In the Year 2000
Director
Algie, the Miner
Producer, Director
Two Little Rangers
Director
A Fool and His Money
Producer, Director
The Detective's Dog
Director
His Double
Director
The New Love And The Old
1912
The New Love And The Old
Director, Producer
Fra Diavolo
Writer, Director
For Love of the Flag
Director
A Terrible Lesson
Director
A Comedy of Errors
Director, Producer
Parson Sue
Director
A Man's a Man
Director
The Strike
Director
The Sewer
Producer
Broken Oaths
Director
Dublin Dan
Producer
Mignon
1912
Mignon
Director
Hubby Does the Washing
1912
Hubby Does the Washing
Director, Producer
The Reformation of Mary
1912
The Reformation of Mary
Director, Producer
Greater Love Hath No Man
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Cupid and the Comet
Director, Producer
Tramp Strategy
Director
His Mother's Hymn
Director
Mixed Pets
Director
Starting Something
Director
What Is a Flag?
Director
Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
as Herself, the director, Director
The Banknote
Director
On the Barricade
Director
Mireille
1906
Mireille
Actor, Director
Madame's Cravings
Director, Writer
The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ
Director, Writer
The Stepmother
Director
Ocean Studies
Director
The Consequences of Feminism
Director, Writer
The Drunken Mattress
Director
A Priest's Conscience
Director, Writer
A Sticky Woman
Director
An Obstacle Course
Director
Man Monkey
Director
Spain
as Self - Presenter, Director
The Statue
Director
The Bricklayers
Director
The Magician's Alms
Director
Faust
1905
Faust
Director
Esmeralda
Director
In a Bamboo Hut
Director
Tango
Director
Token of Love
Director
Eccentric Dance
Director
Midwife to the Upper Class
Director, Producer
Danse basque
Director
The Landlady
Director
Avenue de l'Opéra
Director
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
Director, Writer
At the Floral Ball
Director
Coucher d'une Parisienne
1900
Coucher d'une Parisienne
Scenario Writer, Director
At the Club
Director
Wonderful Absinthe
Director
Disappearing Act
Director
At the Hypnotist's
Director
The Burglars
Director
Bathing in a Stream
Director
Danse Fleur de Lotus
Director
Ballet Libella
Director
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
Actor, Director of Photography, Director, Writer
