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Alice Guy-Blaché
Director 1873 - 1968

Alice Guy-Blaché

Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France

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... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

6 titles
House of Cards

House of Cards

Alice Guy-Blaché 1917 50m

The Mannings are a professional couple--she is a doctor, he is a lawyer--who are so absorbed in their careers that they have little time for their young daughter Louise, who is left to be raised by their servants.

Matrimony's Speed Limit

Matrimony's Speed Limit

Alice Guy-Blaché 1913 14m

A man must marry by noon or lose his inheritance. It's 11:50 a.m. and he can't find his fiancée.

Dick Whittington and his Cat

Dick Whittington and his Cat

Alice Guy-Blaché 1913 45m

A young boy hears wondrous tales of London, where the streets are paced with gold. He leaves his country home to see his fortune in London.

A House Divided

A House Divided

Alice Guy-Blaché 1913 13m

A married couple, suspecting one another of infidelity, decide to "live separately together."

Falling Leaves

Falling Leaves

Alice Guy-Blaché 1912 12m

It's early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the disease seems preparing to soon claim yet another life, a teenage girl named Winifred. Winifred's mother and little sister Trixie are devastated.

La fée aux choux

La fée aux choux

Alice Guy-Blaché 1896 1m

A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. Note: This is a LOST film; the existing film of the same name is the remake from 1900.

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