FILM DIRECTOR

Alice Guy-Blaché

1873 - 1968

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Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché (née Guy; French pronunciation: [alis gi blɑʃe] ; 1 July 1873 – 24 March 1968) was a French pioneer film director. She was one of the first filmmakers to make a narrative fiction film, as well as the first woman to direct a film. From 1896 to 1906, she was probably the only female filmmaker in the world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alice Guy-Blaché has received more than 580,462 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Alice Guy-Blaché is the 146th most popular film director (up from 182nd in 2019), the 1,006th most popular biography from France (up from 1,158th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular French Film Director.

Alice Guy-Blaché is most famous for inventing and directing the world's first narrative film.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Alice Guy-Blaché ranks 146 out of 2,041. Before her are D. W. Griffith, Michael Cimino, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Vsevolod Meyerhold, and Max Reinhardt. After her are Jonathan Demme, Frances Marion, Louis Malle, Ettore Scola, Victor Sjöström, and Ed Wood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Alice Guy-Blaché ranks 27. Before her are Sándor Ferenczi, Pavlo Skoropadskyi, William McMaster Murdoch, Francisco I. Madero, Kyösti Kallio, and Max Reinhardt. After her are Christian Rakovsky, Feodor Chaliapin, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Ivanoe Bonomi, Charles Péguy, and Ray Ewry. Among people deceased in 1968, Alice Guy-Blaché ranks 29. Before her are Jim Clark, Kees van Dongen, José Nasazzi, Pitirim Sorokin, Ivan Ribar, and Neal Cassady. After her are Kirill Meretskov, Alexandre Kojève, Giovanni Messe, Vittorio Pozzo, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, and Vasily Sokolovsky.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alice Guy-Blaché ranks 1,006 out of 6,770. Before her are Jacques Hadamard (1865), Jean Moulin (1899), Georges Brassens (1921), René Girard (1923), Pauline Viardot (1821), and Leonard of Noblac (496). After her are Raymond Poulidor (1936), Claude Louis Hector de Villars (1653), Nicolas Chauvin (1790), Julien Green (1900), Louis II of Anjou (1377), and Gérard Mourou (1944).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Alice Guy-Blaché ranks 22. Before her are Jean-Pierre Melville (1917), Claude Lelouch (1937), René Clément (1913), Jacques Demy (1931), Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907), and Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1953). After her are Louis Malle (1932), Abel Gance (1889), Jacques Rivette (1928), Jean Vigo (1905), Claude Lanzmann (1925), and Chris Marker (1921).

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