Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

The fairy at a cabbage patch hovers over the babies. This is a remake of Guy's 1896 film on the same subject, this time shot in 35 mm.

A pregnant woman steals things from others on account of her cravings.

A landlady is taunted by neighborhood kids.

Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city.

An alcoholic is inadvertently sewn into a mattress.

The stations of Christ's life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux.

A married couple, suspecting one another of infidelity, decide to "live separately together."

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

Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe.

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

A bullfighter dances with a woman.

A suffragette gets her husband drunk, leading to an escalating parade of mishaps as more people get drunk on their "lime juice."

A blind man begging for change tries to outsmart a cop.

Who, apart from moviegoers, knows Alice Guy (1873-1968) today? However, she was the first woman behind the camera and the first female director and...

A boy spreads glue all over town.

Peggy Wilson has recently become an orphan and a ward of the Waston family. She’s also inherited the late Robert Wilson’s vast fortune,...

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

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

"Wild Bill" Gray is a renegade and a wife-beater. He is about to start on some expedition of crime and his wife implores him to stay at home. She...