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