Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favour of Harlequin in this hand-coloured short by Alice Guy.

A youth, the only survivor of a shipwreck, is rescued by two old fishermen. One of the fishermen, who has a little girl the boy's age, decides to...

A parson arrives in the midst of a bunch of wild cowboys. Expecting a male parson, the boys set out in full force to receive him, but on the road...

Mrs. Hurley is a wealthy old lady who is rather proud of her antecedents. Her son, a young, clean-cut, college-bred man, like other gilded youths,...

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

A magician transforms a tiny dinner table into a full meal for a homeless man.

A fighting couple gets interrupted by the landlady.

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

Old Joel Smith is charged with murder in the first degree. At the trial he pleads in opposition to his own lawyers. He explains that he is now too...

An heiress is saved from the predations of a gang of gentleman crooks by a female detective and her father.

A client has trouble listening to the photographer's instructions.

A boy spreads glue all over town.

"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...

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...

Polin performs a song.

The Mannings are a professional couple--she is a doctor, he is a lawyer--who are so absorbed in their careers that they have little time for their...

Nouveau Cirque performs the cake-walk.