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Alice Guy-Blaché
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…
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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.
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2025
Fantastic Flowers
Movie Director
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2025
Imitation of Waves - Guy's Visions
Movie Cinematography
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2021
Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker
Movie Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
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2018
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2016
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2007
Butterfly Dances
Movie Director
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2005
Gaumont Treasures 1897-1913
Movie Director
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1995
The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1976
Qui est Alice Guy?
Movie Self
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1956
Cinépanorama
TV show Self
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1920
Tarnished Reputations
Movie Director
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1918
The Great Adventure
Movie Director
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1917
Behind the Mask
Movie Director
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1917
When You and I Were Young
Movie Director
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1917
House of Cards
Movie Director
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1917
The Empress
Movie Director
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1917
The Adventurer
Movie Director
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1916
The Ocean Waif
Movie Director
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1916
The Scarlet Woman
Movie Director
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1916
What Will People Say?
Movie Director
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1915
Barbara Frietchie
Movie Producer
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1915
My Madonna
Movie Director
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1915
The Song of the Wage Slave
Movie Director
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1915
The Vampire
Movie Director
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1915
Heart of a Painted Woman
Movie Director
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1914
The Tigress
Movie Director
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1914
The Lure
Movie Writer
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1914
The Woman of Mystery
Movie Director
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1914
The Monster and the Girl
Movie Director
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1914
The Dream Woman
Movie Director
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1913
The Rogues of Paris
Movie Director
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1913
The Pit and the Pendulum
Movie Director
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1913
Matrimony's Speed Limit
Movie Director
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1913
Kelly from the Emerald Isle
Movie Writer
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1913
A House Divided
Movie Director
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1913
A Severe Test
Movie Director
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1913
Dick Whittington and His Cat
Movie Writer
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1913
Burstup Homes' Murder Case
Movie Director
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1913
Officer Henderson
Movie Director
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1913
Napoleon
Movie Director
