Magic Lantern Video & Book StoreAlice Guy-Blaché
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The only woman filmmaker to this day who owned her own studio.
B I O
h e r e
Alice and her husband Herbert Blaché arrived in the United States on 19 June 1909,
and established the Solax Film Co. in Fort Lee, New Jersey in 1910.
Links
official Alice Guy-Blaché website (in French}
Alice Guy-Blaché entry at Wikipedia
search for Alice Guy-Blaché on DVD at Amazon
Alice Guy-Blaché credits [1896-1920] at Internet Movie Database
Whitney Museum (NYC) Alice Guy-Blaché exhibition Nov 2009 - Jan 2010
Movies of Alice Guy-Blaché
Blaché made over 700 films; 130 films survive, but only 3 of her 40 features.
Alice Guy-Blaché credits [1896-1920] at Internet Movie Database
search for Alice Guy-Blaché on DVD at Amazon
 | "Gaumont Treasures: 1897-1913" DVD Box Set [2009]
Kino Video b&w DVD set [9/2009] 85+ films on 3 disks for $79.95 DISK 1 contains 70+ silent short films produced and-or directed from 1897 to 1907 by Alice Guy-Blaché [1873-1968], including the 33-minute religious epic "La Vie du Christ" aka "The Birth, The Life and The Death of Christ" [1906], and performances by Félix Mayol with 'Phono-Cinema' synchronous sound DISK 2 is films of Louis Feuillade [1873-1925]; DISK 3 is films of Léonce Perret [1880-1935] |
"La Vie du Christ" 33-minute religious epic [1906]
aka "The Birth, The Life and The Death of Christ"
available on the "Gaumont Treasures" DVD box set above
"Falling Leaves" [1912]
"The Ocean Waif" [Solax/I.F.S. Nov 1916]
 | Typical romance from Hearst's I.F.S. movie mill; a parody of the Pygmalion story that skewers class conventions; release prints were color-tinted. Directed by Alice Guy; starring Doris Kenyon Kino Video b&w DVD [4/2008] for $17.99 credits at IMDb double featured on DVD with "49-17" [Universal Oct 1917] early Western spoof co-written & directed by Ruth Ann Baldwin; starring Joseph W. Girard, Jean Hersholt & Donna Drew; credits at IMDb |
"Un Chapeau de Paille d'Italie (The Italian Straw Hat)"
silent feature [France Jan 19228]
| A script was written by Alice Guy-Blaché prior to 1920, when she offered it to Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood; he declined. The tale is based on a nineteenth-century French farce, updated by Clair to 1895. A groom preparing for his marriage takes a shortcut thru the forest, where his horse eats the unique straw hat of a married woman who is dallying with her lover. The lover threatens to destroy the groom's house unless he replaces the hat, to preserve the woman's reputation.
Adapted & directed by René Clair; based on the 1851 stageplay by Eugène Labiche & Marc Michel; starring Albert Préjean, Geymond Vital & Olga Tschechowa
DVD/Blu-ray not available; Connoisseur Video b&w VHS [7/94] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
Works About Alice Guy-Blaché
"Elle Voulait Faire du Cinéma" TV biopic [France 1983] /tt0228259/
 | "The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché" [1986] Translated by Roberta & Simone Blaché, Edited by Anthony Slide Scarecrow Press 8½x5½ hardcover [5/96] for $29.50 Scarecrow Press hardcover [8/86] out pf print/used |
 | "Alice Guy-Blaché, 1873-1968: La Première Femme Cinéaste du Monde" [1993] by Victor Bachy Institut Jean Vigo 8¼x5½ hardcover [2/93] for €21,73 via Amazon in France Institut Jean Vigo French-langauge 8¼x5½ hardcover [2/93] imported/scarce |
"The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché" documentary
aka "Le Jardin Oublié: La Vie et l'Oeuvre d'Alice Guy-Blaché"
[National Film Board of Canada 1995]
53-minute documentary, French & English versions; co-written & directed by Marquise Lepage
DVD/Blu-ray not available; full credits at IMDb
 | "Alice Guy Blaché: Lost Visionary of The Cinema" [2002] by Alison McMahan "A monumental job..." — Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times Continuum 9¼x5½ pb [10/2003] for $24.95 Continuum 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2002] out of print/used author's Alice Guy-Blaché website |
 | "Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer" [2009] catalog for the exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; edited by {Whitney curator} Joan Simon Yale Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [11/2009] for $33.92 Whitney Museum Alice Guy-Blaché exhibition Nov 2009 - Jan 2010 |
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