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, the First Female Filmmaker
(Self - Filmmaker (archive footage))
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
Spain
(Self - Presenter)
Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
(Herself, the director)
Animated Portrait Shot by L and A Lumière
(Herself)
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
(Self (archive footage))
The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché
(Self (archive footage))
The Women Who Run Hollywood
(Self (archive footage))
Mireille
Cinépanorama
(Self)
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
(Director of Photography)
Gaumont Treasures 1897-1913
(Director)
When Marian was Married
(Director)
L'arroseur arrosé
(Director)
Making an American Citizen
(Producer)
Saharet Performs the Bolero
(Director)
A Sticky Woman
(Director)
The Consequences of Feminism
(Director)
The Glue
(Director)
A Four-Year-Old Heroine
(Director)
An Obstacle Course
(Director)
The Game-Keeper's Son
(Director)
Dranem Performs The True Jiu-Jitsu
(Director)
The Truth Behind the Ape-Man
(Director)
On the Barricade
(Director)
Félix Mayol Performs "The Trottins' Polka"
(Director)
The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ
(Director)
Cook & Rilly's Trained Rooster
(Director)
The Drunken Mattress
(Director)
Madame's Cravings
(Director)
The Stepmother
(Director)
Ocean Studies
(Director)
The Rolling Bed
(Director)
The Dirigible 'Homeland'
(Director)
Le Cake-walk de nouveau cirque
(Director)
The Race for the Sausage
(Director)
Félix Mayol Performs "White Lilacs"
(Director)
Polin Performs "The Anatomy of a Draftee"
(Director)
Dranem Performs "Five O'Clock Tea"
(Director)
The Hierarchies of Love
(Director)
The Parish Priest's Christmas
(Director)
The Irresistible Piano
(Director)
Félix Mayol Performs "Indiscreet Questions"
(Director)
Playing Trumps
(Director)
La crinoline
(Director)
The Hater of Women
(Director)
The Ocean Waif
(Director)
Danse basque
(Director)
Matrimony's Speed Limit
(Director)
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
(Director)
Falling Leaves
(Director)
Disappearing Act
(Director)
Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance
(Director)
The Magician's Alms
(Director)
At the Photographer's
(Director)
Pierrette's Escapades
(Director)
Wonderful Absinthe
(Director)
Spain
(Director)
The Burglars
(Director)
Turn-of-the-Century Surgery
(Director)
The Statue
(Director)
The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man
(Director)
Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder
(Director)
Eccentric Dance
(Director)
The Bricklayers
(Director)
Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs
(Director)
An Untimely Intrusion
(Director)
Clown, Dog and Balloon
(Director)
Serpentine Dance by Mme. Bob Walter
(Director)
At the Club
(Director)
The Landlady
(Director)
How Monsieur Takes His Bath
(Director)
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
(Director)
Avenue de l'Opéra
(Director)
Bathing in a Stream
(Director)
At the Hypnotist's
(Director)
Faust and Mephistopheles
(Director)
The Fisherman at the Stream
(Director)
At the Floral Ball
(Director)
Midwife to the Upper Class
(Director)
Danse Fleur de Lotus
(Director)
Burstup Homes' Murder Case
(Director)
A House Divided
(Director)
Canned Harmony
(Director)
Danse du papillon
(Director)
Faust
(Director)
Entrée Et Sortie De La Mine
(Director)
Danse Serpentine (In a Lion's Cage)
(Director)
Little Tich and His Funny Feet
(Director)
The Pit and the Pendulum
(Director)
Making an American Citizen
(Director)
Ballet Libella
(Director)
The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ
(Writer)
A Sticky Woman
(Writer)
The Tigress
(Director)
La cène
(Director)
Napoleon
(Director)
The Girl in the Arm-Chair
(Director)
My Madonna
(Director)
My Madonna
(Writer)
Heart of a Painted Woman
(Director)
What Will People Say?
(Director)
The Woman of Mystery
(Director)
The Malagueña and the Bullfighter
(Director)
Electrocution
(Director)
L'utilité des rayons x
(Director)
Greater Love Hath No Man
(Director)
In the Year 2000
(Director)
Midwife to the Upper Class
(Producer)
Algie, the Miner
(Producer)
Les démolisseurs
(Director)
Les congierges
(Director)
The Banknote
(Director)
L'Honneur du Corse
(Director)
Two Little Rangers
(Director)
Falling Leaves
(Writer)
Madame's Cravings
(Writer)
The Consequences of Feminism
(Writer)
Déménagement à la cloche de bois
(Director)
A Fool and His Money
(Producer)
A Fool and His Money
(Director)
The Monster and the Girl
(Director)
Algie, the Miner
(Director)
Cupid and the Comet
(Director)
Across the Mexican Line
(Director)
The Lure
(Writer)
The Lure
(Director)
The Vampire
(Director)
The Vampire
(Producer)
Tramp Strategy
(Director)
Coucher d'une Parisienne
(Director)
Coucher d'une Parisienne
(Scenario Writer)
Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak
(Director)
The Dream Woman
(Director)
The Dream Woman
(Screenplay)
Les Druides
(Director)
A Priest's Conscience
(Director)
A Priest's Conscience
(Writer)
Esmeralda
(Director)
A Severe Test
(Director)
La Sortie du Bain
(Director)
Canned Harmony
(Producer)
Serpentine Dance
(Director)
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
(Writer)
The Adventurer
(Director)
Danse fantaisiste
(Director)
La Gigue
(Director)
Serpentine Dance
(Director)
The Detective's Dog
(Director)
A Story Well Spun
(Director)
Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
(Director)
Gavotte directoire
(Director)
His Mother's Hymn
(Director)
The Cleaning Man
(Director)
Alice Guy - 13 Courts-métrages
(Director)
His Double
(Director)
A House Divided
(Producer)
The Girl in the Arm-Chair
(Producer)
Mixed Pets
(Director)
The First Cigarette
(Director)
The Crime on Temple Street
(Director)
The High Cost of Living
(Director)
The Coming of Sunbeam
(Director)
The New Love And The Old
(Producer)
The New Love And The Old
(Director)
The Roads That Lead Home
(Producer)
The Roads That Lead Home
(Director)
God Disposes
(Director)
Cake Walk, Performed by Nouveau Cirque
(Director)
House of Cards
(Director)
The Empress
(Director)
The Empress
(Writer)
Fra Diavolo
(Director)
Dick Whittington and His Cat
(Writer)
Fra Diavolo
(Writer)
Dick Whittington and His Cat
(Director)
Greater Love Hath No Man
(Writer)
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
(Writer)
Making an American Citizen
(Writer)
Beasts of the Jungle
(Writer)
The Great Adventure
(Director)
House of Cards
(Writer)
For Love of the Flag
(Director)
A Terrible Lesson
(Director)
Matrimony's Speed Limit
(Producer)
In a Bamboo Hut
(Director)
What is a flag?
(Director)
Frozen on Love's Trail
(Director)
A Comedy of Errors
(Director)
Starting Something
(Director)
Parson Sue
(Director)
Le cireur distrait
(Director)
La chaussette
(Director)
The Thief
(Director)
A Man's a Man
(Director)
Mr. Bruce Wins at Cards
(Director)
The Strike
(Director)
Butterfly Dances
(Director)
Officer Henderson
(Director)
Cousins of Sherlocko
(Director)
Mireille
(Director)
The Sewer
(Producer)
Course de taureaux à Nîmes
(Director)
The Song of the Wage Slave
(Director)
Cupid and the Comet
(Producer)
Broken Oath
(Director)
Les malabares: Les acrobats
(Director)
Bonsoir
(Co-Director)