Known For
Directing
Born
Jul 01, 1873
Died
Mar 24, 1968
Place of Birth
Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France
Credits
187 titles
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
Filmography
Fantastic Flowers
Director
Imitation of Waves - Guy's Visions
Cinematography
Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Self (archive footage)
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Butterfly Dances
Director
Gaumont Treasures 1897-1913
Director
The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché
Self (archive footage)
Qui est Alice Guy?
Self
Cinépanorama
Self
Tarnished Reputations
Director
The Great Adventure
Director
Behind the Mask
Director
When You and I Were Young
Director
House of Cards
Director
A Man and the Woman
Director
The Empress
Director
The Adventurer
Director
The Ocean Waif
Director
The Scarlet Woman
Director
What Will People Say?
Director
Barbara Frietchie
Producer
My Madonna
Director
The Song of the Wage Slave
Director
The Vampire
Director
Heart of a Painted Woman
Director
The Tigress
Director
The Lure
Director
The Woman of Mystery
Director
The Monster and the Girl
Director
The Dream Woman
Director
The Rogues of Paris
Director
The Pit and the Pendulum
Director
Matrimony's Speed Limit
Director
Kelly from the Emerald Isle
Writer
A House Divided
Director
A Severe Test
Director
Dick Whittington and His Cat
Writer
Burstup Homes' Murder Case
Director
Officer Henderson
Director
Napoleon
Director
Burstup Homes
Director
The Thief
Director
The Coming of Sunbeam
Director
Beasts of the Jungle
Writer
The Roads That Lead Home
Director
Cousins of Sherlocko
Director
The Woman Behind the Man
Director
Hearts Unknown
Director
The Girl in the Arm-Chair
Director