Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. This film is lost or never existed. Copies...

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...

A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave.

It's a society in which gender roles are switched. Will men stand to be unequal?

When Algie Allmore asks to marry Clarice, the young woman's father gives him one year to prove that he's a man.

A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other.

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first...

The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years. Frances...

A boy spreads glue all over town.

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

Félix Mayol performs The Trottins Polka (La Polka des Trottins, by A. Trebitsch and H. Christine) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early...

A boy is fishing in a stream when some others see an opportunity for mischief.

A biodoc about the first female filmmaker and her relative disappearance from the history of cinema.

Old Joel Smith is charged with murder in the first degree. At the trial he pleads in opposition to his own lawyers. He explains that he is now too...

An abused young woman finds safety and love in the arms of a famous novelist.

Saharet performs the bolero for Alice Guy.

Mr. Bruce wins at cards but spends the night desperately trying to protect his winnings from the crooked casino owners.

A woman shows off her trained dogs.

Sam the white-washer pines for the affluent Lindy, but she has dumped him in favor of another. Sam finds a large sum of money, and goes to New York...

Butterfly dance.