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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 527,452 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Alice Guy-Blaché is the 182nd most popular film director (up from 201st in 2019), the 1,162nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,303rd in 2019) and the 27th 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 182 out of 1,581Before her are Peter Weir, Don Siegel, G. W. Pabst, Guy Ritchie, Dino Risi, and Danny Boyle. After her are Francesco Rosi, Giuseppe Tornatore, James Ivory, Michael Cacoyannis, Ivan Reitman, and Vincente Minnelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Alice Guy-Blaché ranks 30Before her are Pavlo Skoropadskyi, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Max Reinhardt, Christian Rakovsky, Kyösti Kallio, and Hans von Euler-Chelpin. After her are Ivanoe Bonomi, Alexander Bogdanov, Ma Barker, Constantin Carathéodory, Lee de Forest, and Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi. Among people deceased in 1968, Alice Guy-Blaché ranks 35Before her are Giovanni Messe, Alexandre Kojève, Ivan Ribar, Lucio Fontana, Vasily Sokolovsky, and Nikolaus von Falkenhorst. After her are Romano Guardini, Josef Harpe, Vittorio Pozzo, Fritz Bauer, Charles Chaplin Jr., and Tsuguharu Foujita.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alice Guy-Blaché ranks 1,162 out of 6,011Before her are André-Hercule de Fleury (1653), Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse (1197), Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932), Gabriel Lamé (1795), Élisée Reclus (1830), and Victoire of France (1733). After her are Pepin II of Aquitaine (823), Jacques I, Prince of Monaco (1689), Albert Roussel (1869), Flora Tristan (1803), Suzanne Lenglen (1899), and Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Alice Guy-Blaché ranks 27Before her are Abel Gance (1889), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1953), Jean Vigo (1905), Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907), Jacques Rivette (1928), and Claude Lanzmann (1925). After her are Bertrand Tavernier (1941), Frank Darabont (1959), Chris Marker (1921), Julien Duvivier (1896), Jean-Jacques Beineix (1946), and Patrice Chéreau (1944).

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