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