Alice Guy-Blaché

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1873-07-01

Deathday 1968-03-24 (94 years old)

Place of Birth Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France

Also Known As Alice Guy Blaché, Alice Blaché, Madame Alice Blaché, Alice Guy-Blache , Alice Guy-Blaché, Alice Blache, Alice Guy Blache, Alice Guy

Alice Guy-Blaché

Biography

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.

Known For

Director

2007
Butterfly Dances

as Director

1918
1917
The Adventurer

as Director

1917
House of Cards

as Director

1917
The Empress

as Director

1917
Behind the Mask

as Director

1916
The Ocean Waif

as Director

1916
1916
The Scarlet Woman

as Director

1915
My Madonna

as Director

1915
1915
The Vampire

as Director

1914
The Tigress

as Director

1914
1914
1914
The Lure

as Director

1914
The Dream Woman

as Director

1913
1913
A House Divided

as Director

1913
1913
Napoleon

as Director

1913
A Severe Test

as Director

1913
1913
1913
The Thief

as Director

1913
1913
Officer Henderson

as Director

1913
1913
Burstup Homes

as Director

1912
The Hater of Women

as Director

1912
Playing Trumps

as Director

1912
Falling Leaves

as Director

1912
Canned Harmony

as Director

1912
In the Year 2000

as Director

1912
Two Little Rangers

as Director

1912
1912
Algie, the Miner

as Director

1912
1912
His Double

as Director

1912
1912
1912
God Disposes

as Director

1912
Fra Diavolo

as Director

1912
1912
A Terrible Lesson

as Director

1912
1912
A Comedy of Errors

as Director

1912
Parson Sue

as Director

1912
A Man's a Man

as Director

1912
The Strike

as Director

1912
Broken Oaths

as Director

1912
1912
Mignon

as Director

1912
1912
1912
Blighted Lives

as Director

1912
1912
1912
1912
1912
Phantom Paradise

as Director

1912
1912
1912
Hearts Unknown

as Director

1912
1912
1912
1911
1911
1911
1911
1911
Tramp Strategy

as Director

1911
His Mother's Hymn

as Director

1911
Mixed Pets

as Director

1911
Starting Something

as Director

1910
Bonsoir

as Co-Director

1909
What Is a Flag?

as Director

1907
On the Barricade

as Director

1907
1907
1907
The Glue

as Director

1907
1907
The Rolling Bed

as Director

1907
1907
The Banknote

as Director

1907
The Cleaning Man

as Director

1906
A Sticky Woman

as Director

1906
Madame's Cravings

as Director

1906
1906
An Obstacle Course

as Director

1906
The Stepmother

as Director

1906
Ocean Studies

as Director

1906
1906
1906
Spain

as Director

1906
L'Honneur du Corse

as Director

1906
Les Druides

as Director

1906
1906
A Story Well Spun

as Director

1906
La chaussette

as Director

1906
Mireille

as Director

1906
1905
The Statue

as Director

1905
The Bricklayers

as Director

1905
1905
1905
Faust

as Director

1905
Esmeralda

as Director

1905
In a Bamboo Hut

as Director

1905
Le cireur distrait

as Director

1904
Electrocution

as Director

1904
1903
1902
Eccentric Dance

as Director

1902
1902
Danse fantaisiste

as Director

1902
La Gigue

as Director

1902
Serpentine Dance

as Director

1901
Danse basque

as Director

1900
The Landlady

as Director

1900
1900
Avenue de l'Opéra

as Director

1900
1900
1900
At the Floral Ball

as Director

1900
Danse du papillon

as Director

1900
1900
Gavotte directoire

as Director

1899
At the Club

as Director

1899
Wonderful Absinthe

as Director

1899
La Sortie du Bain

as Director

1898
Disappearing Act

as Director

1898
At the Hypnotist's

as Director

1898
La cène

as Director

1898
1897
L'arroseur arrosé

as Director

1897
1897
The Burglars

as Director

1897
1897
Ballet Libella

as Director

1896
1896
Les démolisseurs

as Director

1896
Les congierges

as Director

Producer

1916
The Scarlet Woman

as Producer

1915
The Vampire

as Producer

1914
1913
A House Divided

as Producer

1913
1913
1913
1913
1912
Algie, the Miner

as Producer

1912
1912
Canned Harmony

as Producer

1912
1912
The Sewer

as Producer

1912
Dublin Dan

as Producer

1912
1912
1912
A Comedy of Errors

as Producer

1912
The Equine Spy

as Producer

1911
1911
Greater Love Hath No Man

as Executive Producer

Writer

1917
The Empress

as Writer

1917
House of Cards

as Writer

1915
My Madonna

as Writer

1914
The Lure

as Writer

1914
The Dream Woman

as Screenplay

1914
The Woman of Mystery

as Scenario Writer

1913
1912
Falling Leaves

as Writer

1912
Fra Diavolo

as Writer

1906
A Sticky Woman

as Writer

1906
1906
1900
Coucher d'une Parisienne

as Scenario Writer

Actor

2021
Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

2016
The Women Who Run Hollywood

as Self (archive footage)

1956
1912
A Solax Celebration

as The Cause

1906
Spain

as Self - Presenter

Camera

1896
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy

as Director of Photography