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.
Fotos
Filme (188)
Fantastic Flowers
2025 · Director
Imitation of Waves - Guy's Visions
2025 · Cinematography
Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker
2021 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Be Natural — Sei du selbst: Die Filmpionierin Alice Guy-Blaché
2018 · Self (archive footage)
The Women Who Run Hollywood
2016 · Self (archive footage)
Butterfly Dances
2007 · Director
Gaumont Treasures 1897-1913
2005 · Director
The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché
1995 · Self (archive footage)
Qui est Alice Guy?
1976 · Self
Tarnished Reputations
1920 · Director, Producer
The Great Adventure
1918 · Director
Behind the Mask
1917 · Director
When You and I Were Young
1917 · Director
House of Cards
1917 · Director, Writer
A Man and the Woman
1917 · Director, Screenplay
The Empress
1917 · Director, Writer
The Adventurer
1917 · Director
The Ocean Waif
1916 · Director
The Scarlet Woman
1916 · Director, Producer
What Will People Say?
1916 · Director
Barbara Frietchie
1915 · Producer
My Madonna
1915 · Director, Writer
The Song of the Wage Slave
1915 · Director
The Vampire
1915 · Producer, Director
Heart of a Painted Woman
1915 · Director
The Tigress
1914 · Director
The Lure
1914 · Writer, Director
The Woman of Mystery
1914 · Director, Scenario Writer, Producer
The Monster and the Girl
1914 · Director
The Dream Woman
1914 · Screenplay, Director
The Rogues of Paris
1913 · Director, Producer
The Pit and the Pendulum
1913 · Director
Matrimony's Speed Limit
1913 · Director, Producer
Kelly from the Emerald Isle
1913 · Writer
A House Divided
1913 · Director, Producer
A Severe Test
1913 · Director
Dick Whittington and His Cat
1913 · Director, Writer
Burstup Homes' Murder Case
1913 · Director
Officer Henderson
1913 · Director
Napoleon
1913 · Director
Burstup Homes
1913 · Director
The Thief
1913 · Director
The Coming of Sunbeam
1913 · Director
The Roads That Lead Home
1913 · Producer, Director
Beasts of the Jungle
1913 · Writer, Producer
Cousins of Sherlocko
1913 · Director
The Woman Behind the Man
1912 · Director
Hearts Unknown
1912 · Director
The Girl in the Arm-Chair
1912 · Director, Producer
The Hater of Women
1912 · Director
The Face at the Window
1912 · Director
A Comedy of Errors
1912 · Director, Producer
The New Love And The Old
1912 · Director, Producer
Making an American Citizen
1912 · Producer, Director, Writer
The High Cost of Living
1912 · Director
Canned Harmony
1912 · Director, Producer
The Love of the Flag
1912 · Director
Treasures on the Wing
1912 · Director
The Fight in the Dark
1912 · Director
Dublin Dan
1912 · Producer
Playing Trumps
1912 · Director
His Double
1912 · Director
Phantom Paradise
1912 · Director
The Equine Spy
1912 · Producer
The Strike
1912 · Director
Two Little Rangers
1912 · Director
Broken Oaths
1912 · Director
For Love of the Flag
1912 · Director
Fra Diavolo
1912 · Writer, Director
In the Year 2000
1912 · Director
Souls in the Shadow
1912 · Director
The Wooing of Alice
1912 · Director
The Reformation of Mary
1912 · Director, Producer
The Sewer
1912 · Producer
Child of the Tenements
1912 · Director
Falling Leaves
1912 · Director, Writer
Blighted Lives
1912 · Director
Algie, the Miner
1912 · Producer, Director
God Disposes
1912 · Director
Hubby Does the Washing
1912 · Director, Producer
The Detective's Dog
1912 · Director
A Terrible Lesson
1912 · Director
Mrs. Cranston's Jewels
1912 · Director
Mignon
1912 · Director
Frozen on Love's Trail
1912 · Director
A Man's a Man
1912 · Director
Parson Sue
1912 · Director
A Solax Celebration
1912 · The Cause, Director
A Fool and His Money
1912 · Producer, Director
Someone's Luck Society
1912 · Director
The Violin Maker of Nuremberg
1911 · Director
His Mother's Hymn
1911 · Director
Outwitted by Horse and Lariat
1911 · Director
Starting Something
1911 · Director
Greater Love Hath No Man
1911 · Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Cupid and the Comet
1911 · Director, Producer
Across the Mexican Line
1911 · Director
Tramp Strategy
1911 · Director
From the Valley of Shadows
1911 · Director
Mixed Pets
1911 · Director
When Marian was Married
1911 · Director
What Is a Flag?
1909 · Director
On the Barricade
1907 · Director
The Banknote
1907 · Director
The Race for the Sausage
1907 · Director
Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
1907 · Herself, the director, Director
The Consequences of Feminism
1906 · Director, Writer
Man Monkey
1906 · Director
The Dirigible 'Homeland'
1906 · Director
Dranem Performs "Five O'Clock Tea"
1906 · Director
The Drunken Mattress
1906 · Director
Anna, what are you waiting for?
1906 · Director
The Stepmother
1906 · Director
The Hierarchies of Love
1906 · Director
A Sticky Woman
1906 · Director
The Mouse in the Crinoline
1906 · Director
Madame's Cravings
1906 · Director, Writer
The Druids
1906 · Director
L'Honneur du Corse
1906 · Director
The Game-Keeper's Son
1906 · Director
A Priest's Conscience
1906 · Director, Writer
Course de taureaux
1906 · Director
Mireille
1906 · Director
The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ
1906 · Director, Writer
An Obstacle Course
1906 · Director
Ocean Studies
1906 · Director
Een kleine detective
1906 · Director
The Sock
1905 · Director
Esmeralda
1905 · Director
The Fairy of Spring
1905 · Director
The Magician's Alms
1905 · Director
Tango
1905 · Director
The Statue
1905 · Director
Spain
1905 · Self - Presenter, Director
The Bricklayers
1905 · Director
Clown, Dog and Balloon
1905 · Director
Félix Mayol Performs "The Trottins' Polka"
1905 · Director
Le Cake-walk de nouveau cirque
1905 · Director
Félix Mayol Performs "White Lilacs"
1905 · Director
Dranem Performs The True Jiu-Jitsu
1905 · Director
Félix Mayol Performs "Indiscreet Questions"
1905 · Director
Saharet Performs the Bolero
1905 · Director
Polin Performs "The Anatomy of a Draftee"
1905 · Director
Faust
1905 · Director
The Malagueña and the Bullfighter
1905 · Director
In a Bamboo Hut
1905 · Director
The Crime on Temple Street
1904 · Director
Token of Love
1904 · Director
The First Cigarette
1904 · Director
Faust and Mephistopheles
1903 · Director
How Monsieur Takes His Bath
1903 · Director
An Untimely Intrusion
1902 · Director
Midwife to the Upper Class
1902 · Director, Producer
Les malabares: Les acrobats
1902 · Director
La Gigue
1902 · Director
Danse fantaisiste
1902 · Director
Eccentric Dance
1902 · Director
Serpentine Dance
1902 · Director
Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs
1902 · Director
Danse basque
1901 · Director
Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance
1900 · Director
Coucher d'une Parisienne
1900 · Scenario Writer, Director
At the Photographer's
1900 · Director
At the Floral Ball
1900 · Director
The Landlady
1900 · Director
Avenue de l'Opéra
1900 · Director
Pierrette's Escapades
1900 · Director
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
1900 · Director, Writer
Danse du papillon
1900 · Director
Gavotte directoire
1900 · Director
Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder
1900 · Director
At the Club
1899 · Director
Wonderful Absinthe
1899 · Director
Entrée Et Sortie De La Mine
1899 · Director
Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak
1898 · Director
Disappearing Act
1898 · Director
At the Hypnotist's
1898 · Director
The Burglars
1898 · Director
The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man
1898 · Director
Danse Fleur de Lotus
1897 · Director
Ballet Libella
1897 · Director
The Fisherman at the Stream
1897 · Director
Bathing in a Stream
1897 · Director
Serpentine Dance by Mme. Bob Walter
1897 · Director
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
1896 · Director of Photography, Director, Writer
Animated Portrait Shot by L and A Lumière
1895 · Herself
Alice Guy - 13 Courts-métrages
· Director
Shadows of the Moulin Rouge
· Director, Writer, Producer
