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...

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

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

A piano entices anyone who comes near.

A turn-of-the-last-century hand-tinted short, which features two women, Miss Lally and Miss Julyett, dancing at a ball. By the legendary French...

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

During the Paris Commune, a boy runs across trouble at the barricade.

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

Soldiers ambush a house.

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...

An extremely clumsy man tries to clean a woman's house with disastrous results.

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

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 group of kids play in a stream.

A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy.

A hypnotist tricks his patients.

A lady uses her maid to lick her stamps, when an overtly excited man notices the maid, forcibly kisses her, and they wind up stuck to each other.

George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin...

A wonderful midwife helps a rich couple pick out a baby from her cabbage patch.