Alice Guy-Blaché
Directing
1873-07-01 · 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.
Filmography
Fantastic Flowers
2025 · Movie
Imitation of Waves - Guy's Visions
2025 · Movie
Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker
2021 · Movie
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018 · Movie
The Women Who Run Hollywood
2016 · Movie
Butterfly Dances
2007 · Movie
Gaumont Treasures 1897-1913
2005 · Movie
The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché
1995 · Movie
Qui est Alice Guy?
1976 · Movie
Cinépanorama
1956 · Series
Tarnished Reputations
1920 · Movie
The Great Adventure
1918 · Movie
Behind the Mask
1917 · Movie
When You and I Were Young
1917 · Movie
House of Cards
1917 · Movie
A Man and the Woman
1917 · Movie
The Empress
1917 · Movie
The Adventurer
1917 · Movie
The Ocean Waif
1916 · Movie
The Scarlet Woman
1916 · Movie
What Will People Say?
1916 · Movie
Barbara Frietchie
1915 · Movie
My Madonna
1915 · Movie
The Song of the Wage Slave
1915 · Movie
The Vampire
1915 · Movie
Heart of a Painted Woman
1915 · Movie
The Tigress
1914 · Movie
The Lure
1914 · Movie
The Woman of Mystery
1914 · Movie
The Monster and the Girl
1914 · Movie
The Dream Woman
1914 · Movie
The Rogues of Paris
1913 · Movie
The Pit and the Pendulum
1913 · Movie
Matrimony's Speed Limit
1913 · Movie
Kelly from the Emerald Isle
1913 · Movie
A House Divided
1913 · Movie
A Severe Test
1913 · Movie
Dick Whittington and His Cat
1913 · Movie
Burstup Homes' Murder Case
1913 · Movie
Officer Henderson
1913 · Movie
Napoleon
1913 · Movie
Burstup Homes
1913 · Movie
The Thief
1913 · Movie
The Coming of Sunbeam
1913 · Movie
Beasts of the Jungle
1913 · Movie
The Roads That Lead Home
1913 · Movie
Cousins of Sherlocko
1913 · Movie
The Woman Behind the Man
1912 · Movie
Hearts Unknown
1912 · Movie
The Girl in the Arm-Chair
1912 · Movie
The Hater of Women
1912 · Movie
The Face at the Window
1912 · Movie
A Comedy of Errors
1912 · Movie
The New Love And The Old
1912 · Movie
Making an American Citizen
1912 · Movie
The High Cost of Living
1912 · Movie
Canned Harmony
1912 · Movie
The Love of the Flag
1912 · Movie
Treasures on the Wing
1912 · Movie
The Fight in the Dark
1912 · Movie
Dublin Dan
1912 · Movie
Playing Trumps
1912 · Movie
His Double
1912 · Movie
Phantom Paradise
1912 · Movie
The Equine Spy
1912 · Movie
The Strike
1912 · Movie
Two Little Rangers
1912 · Movie
Broken Oaths
1912 · Movie
For Love of the Flag
1912 · Movie
Fra Diavolo
1912 · Movie
In the Year 2000
1912 · Movie
Souls in the Shadow
1912 · Movie
The Wooing of Alice
1912 · Movie
The Reformation of Mary
1912 · Movie
The Sewer
1912 · Movie
Child of the Tenements
1912 · Movie
Falling Leaves
1912 · Movie
Blighted Lives
1912 · Movie
Algie, the Miner
1912 · Movie
God Disposes
1912 · Movie
Hubby Does the Washing
1912 · Movie
The Detective's Dog
1912 · Movie
A Terrible Lesson
1912 · Movie
Mrs. Cranston's Jewels
1912 · Movie
Mignon
1912 · Movie
Frozen on Love's Trail
1912 · Movie
A Man's a Man
1912 · Movie
Parson Sue
1912 · Movie
A Fool and His Money
1912 · Movie
Someone's Luck Society
1912 · Movie
A Solax Celebration
1912 · Movie
The Violin Maker of Nuremberg
1911 · Movie
His Mother's Hymn
1911 · Movie
Outwitted by Horse and Lariat
1911 · Movie
Starting Something
1911 · Movie
Greater Love Hath No Man
1911 · Movie
Cupid and the Comet
1911 · Movie
Across the Mexican Line
1911 · Movie
Tramp Strategy
1911 · Movie
From the Valley of Shadows
1911 · Movie
Mixed Pets
1911 · Movie
When Marian was Married
1911 · Movie
What Is a Flag?
1909 · Movie
On the Barricade
1907 · Movie
The Banknote
1907 · Movie
The Race for the Sausage
1907 · Movie
Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
1907 · Movie
The Consequences of Feminism
1906 · Movie
Man Monkey
1906 · Movie
The Dirigible 'Homeland'
1906 · Movie
Dranem Performs "Five O'Clock Tea"
1906 · Movie
The Drunken Mattress
1906 · Movie
Anna, what are you waiting for?
1906 · Movie
The Stepmother
1906 · Movie
The Hierarchies of Love
1906 · Movie
A Sticky Woman
1906 · Movie
The Mouse in the Crinoline
1906 · Movie
Madame's Cravings
1906 · Movie
The Druids
1906 · Movie
L'Honneur du Corse
1906 · Movie
The Game-Keeper's Son
1906 · Movie
A Priest's Conscience
1906 · Movie
Course de taureaux
1906 · Movie
Mireille
1906 · Movie
The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ
1906 · Movie
An Obstacle Course
1906 · Movie
Ocean Studies
1906 · Movie
Een kleine detective
1906 · Movie
The Sock
1905 · Movie
Esmeralda
1905 · Movie
The Fairy of Spring
1905 · Movie
Tango
1905 · Movie
The Magician's Alms
1905 · Movie
The Statue
1905 · Movie
Spain
1905 · Movie
The Bricklayers
1905 · Movie
Clown, Dog and Balloon
1905 · Movie
Polin Performs "The Anatomy of a Draftee"
1905 · Movie
Félix Mayol Performs "White Lilacs"
1905 · Movie
Faust
1905 · Movie
Saharet Performs the Bolero
1905 · Movie
Dranem Performs The True Jiu-Jitsu
1905 · Movie
The Malagueña and the Bullfighter
1905 · Movie
In a Bamboo Hut
1905 · Movie
Le Cake-walk de nouveau cirque
1905 · Movie
Félix Mayol Performs "The Trottins' Polka"
1905 · Movie
Félix Mayol Performs "Indiscreet Questions"
1905 · Movie
The Crime on Temple Street
1904 · Movie
Token of Love
1904 · Movie
The First Cigarette
1904 · Movie
Faust and Mephistopheles
1903 · Movie
How Monsieur Takes His Bath
1903 · Movie
An Untimely Intrusion
1902 · Movie
Midwife to the Upper Class
1902 · Movie
Les malabares: Les acrobats
1902 · Movie
La Gigue
1902 · Movie
Danse fantaisiste
1902 · Movie
Eccentric Dance
1902 · Movie
Serpentine Dance
1902 · Movie
Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs
1902 · Movie
Danse basque
1901 · Movie
Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance
1900 · Movie
Coucher d'une Parisienne
1900 · Movie
At the Floral Ball
1900 · Movie
At the Photographer's
1900 · Movie
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
1900 · Movie
Pierrette's Escapades
1900 · Movie
Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder
1900 · Movie
Avenue de l'Opéra
1900 · Movie
The Landlady
1900 · Movie
Danse du papillon
1900 · Movie
Gavotte directoire
1900 · Movie
At the Club
1899 · Movie
Entrée Et Sortie De La Mine
1899 · Movie
Wonderful Absinthe
1899 · Movie
Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak
1898 · Movie
At the Hypnotist's
1898 · Movie
Disappearing Act
1898 · Movie
The Burglars
1898 · Movie
The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man
1898 · Movie
Ballet Libella
1897 · Movie
Danse Fleur de Lotus
1897 · Movie
The Fisherman at the Stream
1897 · Movie
Bathing in a Stream
1897 · Movie
Serpentine Dance by Mme. Bob Walter
1897 · Movie
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
1896 · Movie
Animated Portrait Shot by L and A Lumière
1895 · Movie
Shadows of the Moulin Rouge
Movie
Alice Guy - 13 Courts-métrages
Movie