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