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