Alice Guy-Blaché
Known for: Directing
Born: July 1, 1873
Died: March 24, 1968
Place of birth: Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France
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.
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Filmography
189 movies · 1 TV show, newest first
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Fantastic Flowers
2025
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Imitation of Waves - Guy's Visions
2025
7.2
Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker
2021
7.2
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018
7.1
The Women Who Run Hollywood
20165.0
Butterfly Dances
2007
10.0
Gaumont Treasures 1897-1913
2005
6.4
The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché
1995NR
Qui est Alice Guy?
1976
8.7
Cinépanorama
1956
7.0
Tarnished Reputations
1920
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The Great Adventure
1918
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Behind the Mask
1917
9.0
When You and I Were Young
1917
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House of Cards
1917
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The Empress
1917
6.7
The Adventurer
1917
5.7
The Ocean Waif
1916
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The Scarlet Woman
1916
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What Will People Say?
1916
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Barbara Frietchie
1915
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My Madonna
1915
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The Song of the Wage Slave
1915
8.0
The Vampire
1915
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Heart of a Painted Woman
1915
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The Tigress
1914
1.0
The Lure
1914
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The Woman of Mystery
1914NR
The Monster and the Girl
1914
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The Dream Woman
1914NR
The Rogues of Paris
1913
5.8
The Pit and the Pendulum
1913
5.8
Matrimony's Speed Limit
19139.0
Kelly from the Emerald Isle
1913
5.8
A House Divided
1913
7.0
A Severe Test
1913
4.7
Dick Whittington and His Cat
1913
4.7
Burstup Homes' Murder Case
1913
5.0
Officer Henderson
1913NR
Napoleon
1913NR
Burstup Homes
1913
5.0
The Thief
1913
5.0
The Coming of Sunbeam
1913
8.0
The Roads That Lead Home
1913
9.0
Beasts of the Jungle
1913
6.0
Cousins of Sherlocko
191310.0
The Woman Behind the Man
19129.0
Hearts Unknown
1912
5.7
The Girl in the Arm-Chair
1912
6.0
The Hater of Women
19128.0
The Face at the Window
1912
8.0
A Comedy of Errors
1912NR
The New Love And The Old
1912
5.1
Making an American Citizen
1912
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The High Cost of Living
1912
6.4
Canned Harmony
19128.0
The Love of the Flag
191210.0
Treasures on the Wing
1912
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The Fight in the Dark
1912
10.0
Dublin Dan
1912
7.0
Playing Trumps
1912
7.0
His Double
1912NR
Phantom Paradise
19127.0
The Equine Spy
1912
6.0
The Strike
1912
6.0
Two Little Rangers
1912
5.0
Broken Oaths
1912
5.0
For Love of the Flag
1912
10.0
Fra Diavolo
1912
10.0
In the Year 2000
1912NR
Souls in the Shadow
19127.0
The Wooing of Alice
191210.0
The Reformation of Mary
1912
5.7
The Sewer
191210.0
Child of the Tenements
1912
6.6
Falling Leaves
19128.0
Blighted Lives
1912
4.9
Algie, the Miner
19127.0
God Disposes
19128.0
Hubby Does the Washing
1912
6.0
The Detective's Dog
1912
8.0
A Terrible Lesson
19127.0
Mrs. Cranston's Jewels
19128.0
Mignon
1912
6.0
Frozen on Love's Trail
1912
5.5
A Man's a Man
1912
5.0
Parson Sue
1912NR
A Solax Celebration
1912
6.4
A Fool and His Money
1912NR
Someone's Luck Society
191210.0
The Violin Maker of Nuremberg
1911
7.0
His Mother's Hymn
1911
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Outwitted by Horse and Lariat
1911
5.3
Starting Something
1911
6.7
Greater Love Hath No Man
1911
1.0
Cupid and the Comet
1911
5.5
Across the Mexican Line
1911
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Tramp Strategy
19117.0
From the Valley of Shadows
1911
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Mixed Pets
1911
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When Marian was Married
1911
5.0
What Is a Flag?
1909
5.3
On the Barricade
1907
5.8
The Irresistible Piano
1907
5.8
The Glue
1907
5.0
The Rolling Bed
1907
5.0
The Banknote
1907
5.9
The Race for the Sausage
1907
6.2
Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
1907
6.2
The Consequences of Feminism
1906
5.0
Man Monkey
1906
4.6
The Dirigible 'Homeland'
1906
4.9
Dranem Performs "Five O'Clock Tea"
1906
5.8
The Drunken Mattress
1906
5.3
The Stepmother
1906
4.8
The Hierarchies of Love
1906
5.6
A Sticky Woman
1906
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The Mouse in the Crinoline
1906
5.8
Madame's Cravings
1906NR
The Druids
1906NR
L'Honneur du Corse
1906
5.6
The Game-Keeper's Son
1906
6.0
A Priest's Conscience
1906NR
Course de taureaux
19067.0
Mireille
1906
6.0
The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ
1906
5.2
An Obstacle Course
1906
4.9
Ocean Studies
19063.5
The Sock
1905
3.0
Esmeralda
19055.5
The Fairy of Spring
1905
5.2
The Magician's Alms
1905
4.2
Tango
1905
5.0
The Statue
1905
5.6
Spain
1905
4.9
The Bricklayers
1905
4.7
Clown, Dog and Balloon
1905
4.7
Le Cake-walk de nouveau cirque
1905
4.0
Saharet Performs the Bolero
1905
5.8
Polin Performs "The Anatomy of a Draftee"
1905
4.7
Dranem Performs The True Jiu-Jitsu
1905
5.4
Félix Mayol Performs "Indiscreet Questions"
1905
5.0
Félix Mayol Performs "The Trottins' Polka"
1905
4.9
Félix Mayol Performs "White Lilacs"
1905NR
Faust
1905
4.3
The Malagueña and the Bullfighter
1905
3.5
In a Bamboo Hut
19058.0
The Crime on Temple Street
1904
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Token of Love
1904NR
The First Cigarette
1904
4.6
Faust and Mephistopheles
1903
4.6
How Monsieur Takes His Bath
1903
4.5
An Untimely Intrusion
1902
4.7
Midwife to the Upper Class
190210.0
Les malabares: Les acrobats
1902NR
La Gigue
19024.0
Danse fantaisiste
1902
4.7
Eccentric Dance
1902
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Serpentine Dance
1902
5.2
Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs
1902
4.0
Danse basque
1901
5.5
Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance
1900NR
Coucher d'une Parisienne
1900
5.3
At the Photographer's
1900
5.1
At the Floral Ball
1900
5.5
Avenue de l'Opéra
1900
4.8
The Landlady
1900
4.9
Turn-of-the-Century Surgery
1900
5.2
Pierrette's Escapades
1900
5.0
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
19005.3
Danse du papillon
1900NR
Gavotte directoire
1900
5.9
Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder
1900
4.2
At the Club
1899
4.5
Wonderful Absinthe
1899NR
Entrée Et Sortie De La Mine
1899
4.9
Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak
1898
4.7
At the Hypnotist's
1898
4.8
Disappearing Act
1898
4.3
The Burglars
1898
5.0
The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man
1898
5.7
Danse Fleur de Lotus
1897
5.0
Ballet Libella
1897
4.8
The Fisherman at the Stream
1897
4.4
Bathing in a Stream
1897
5.3
Serpentine Dance by Mme. Bob Walter
1897
5.2
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
1896
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Animated Portrait Shot by L and A Lumière
1895
10.0
Alice Guy - 13 Courts-métrages
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Shadows of the Moulin Rouge
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