Alice Guy-Blaché

About

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...

Known for

The Ocean WaifMovie • 1916The Consequences of FeminismMovie • 1906At the Hypnotist'sMovie • 1898The Cabbage-Patch FairyMovie • 1896The Cabbage-Patch FairyMovie • 1900Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-GrinderMovie • 1900Matrimony's Speed LimitMovie • 1913The Fisherman at the StreamMovie • 1897Midwife to the Upper ClassMovie • 1902Falling LeavesMovie • 1912The Birth, the Life and the Death of ChristMovie • 1906The Race for the SausageMovie • 1907At the Floral BallMovie • 1900The BurglarsMovie • 1898Algie, the MinerMovie • 1912Madame's CravingsMovie • 1906Pierrette's EscapadesMovie • 1900Faust and MephistophelesMovie • 1903A Sticky WomanMovie • 1906Serpentine Dance by Mme. Bob WalterMovie • 1897A House DividedMovie • 1913Miss Dundee and Her Performing DogsMovie • 1902Avenue de l'OpéraMovie • 1900Disappearing ActMovie • 1898