Alice Guy-Blaché

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Alice Guy-Blaché (July 1, 1873 – March 24, 1968) is generally considered to be the world's first female director. French-born Alice Guy entered the film business as a secretary at Gaumont-Paris in 1896. The next year Gaumont changed from manufacturing cameras to producing movies, and Guy became one of its first film directors. She impressed the company so much with the output (she averaged two two-reelers a week) and quality of her productions that by 1905 she was made the company's production director, supervising the company's other directors. In 1907 she married Herbert Blaché, an Englishman who ran the company's British and German offices. The pair soon went to the U.S. to set up the company's operations there. In 1910 she set up her own production company in New York and built a studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey. After a period of critical and financial success, her company's fortunes declined and she eventually shut down the studio. Although she secured work directing films for several major Hollywood studios, she returned to France in 1922 after her divorce from Blache. She was never able to secure any directorial jobs there, and never made a film again. In 1964 she returned to the U.S. and lived in Mahwah, New Jersey - not far from where her original studios were - with her daughters, where she died in 1968.

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  • wc Gender: Female
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1873-07-01
  • event Death Date 1968-03-24
  • school Known for: Directing
  • star Popularity: 2.1
  • info Birth Place Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Alice Guy-Blaché

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The Cabbage-Patch Fairy

1896-03-31

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Gaumont Treasures 1897-1913

2005-01-05

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When Marian was Married

1911-01-01

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L'arroseur arrosé

1897-01-01

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Making an American Citizen

1912-10-30

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Cook & Rilly's Trained Rooster

1905-01-01

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Le Cake-walk de nouveau cirque

1905-01-01

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Saharet Performs the Bolero

1905-01-01

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Polin Performs "The Anatomy of a Draftee"

1905-01-01

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Dranem Performs The True Jiu-Jitsu

1905-01-01

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Dranem Performs "Five O'Clock Tea"

1906-12-01

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Félix Mayol Performs "Indiscreet Questions"

1905-01-01

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Félix Mayol Performs "The Trottins' Polka"

1905-01-01

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Félix Mayol Performs "White Lilacs"

1905-01-01

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The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ

1906-03-25

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An Obstacle Course

1906-04-12

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Madame's Cravings

1906-07-22

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A Sticky Woman

1906-08-31

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The Hierarchies of Love

1906-01-11

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The Stepmother

1906-11-03

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The Drunken Mattress

1906-12-29

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The Parish Priest's Christmas

1906-12-10

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The Truth Behind the Ape-Man

1906-12-20

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The Consequences of Feminism

1906-12-21

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Ocean Studies

1906-01-16

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The Game-Keeper's Son

1906-08-01

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The Race for the Sausage

1907-01-27

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The Glue

1907-11-01

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A Four-Year-Old Heroine

1907-10-01

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The Rolling Bed

1907-11-01

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The Irresistible Piano

1907-09-30

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On the Barricade

1907-08-11

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The Dirigible 'Homeland'

1907-12-10

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La crinoline

1906-09-01

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Playing Trumps

1912-08-30

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The Hater of Women

1912-12-11

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The Ocean Waif

1916-11-02

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Danse basque

1901-06-17

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Matrimony's Speed Limit

1913-06-11

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The Cabbage-Patch Fairy

1896-03-31

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Falling Leaves

1912-03-15

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The Fisherman at the Stream

1897-01-01

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Bathing in a Stream

1897-01-01

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Serpentine Dance by Mme. Bob Walter

1897-01-01

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The Turn-of-the-Century Blind Man

1898-01-01

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At the Hypnotist's

1898-01-01

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The Burglars

1897-01-01

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Disappearing Act

1898-01-01

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At the Club

1899-01-01

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Wonderful Absinthe

1899-01-01

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Avenue de l'Opéra

1900-01-01

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Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder

1900-01-01

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At the Photographer's

1900-01-01

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Dance of the Seasons: Winter, Snow Dance

1900-01-01

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The Landlady

1900-01-01

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Turn-of-the-Century Surgery

1900-01-01

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Pierrette's Escapades

1900-01-01

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At the Floral Ball

1900-01-01

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The Cabbage-Patch Fairy

1900-01-01

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Eccentric Dance

1902-03-15

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Midwife to the Upper Class

1902-09-01

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An Untimely Intrusion

1902-12-28

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Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs

1902-03-02

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How Monsieur Takes His Bath

1903-04-03

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Faust and Mephistopheles

1903-06-05

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The Bricklayers

1905-08-12

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The Statue

1905-08-19

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The Magician's Alms

1905-10-01

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Clown, Dog and Balloon

1905-08-01

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Spain

1906-01-01

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Danse Fleur de Lotus

1897-05-18

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Burstup Homes' Murder Case

1913-03-26

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A House Divided

1913-05-02

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Canned Harmony

1912-10-09

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Danse du papillon

1900-01-01

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Faust

1905-01-01

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Entrée Et Sortie De La Mine

1899-01-01

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Danse Serpentine (In a Lion's Cage)

1900-08-08

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Little Tich and His Funny Feet

1900-12-31

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The Pit and the Pendulum

1913-07-09

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Making an American Citizen

1912-10-30

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Ballet Libella

1897-05-18

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The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ

1906-03-25

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A Sticky Woman

1906-08-31

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The Tigress

1914-12-07

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La cène

1898-01-16

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Napoleon

1913-03-05

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The Girl in the Arm-Chair

1912-12-13

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My Madonna

1915-10-25

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My Madonna

1915-10-25

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Heart of a Painted Woman

1915-04-19

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What Will People Say?

1916-01-03

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The Woman of Mystery

1914-05-10

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The Malagueña and the Bullfighter

1905-01-01

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Electrocution

1904-06-01

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L'utilité des rayons x

1898-09-22

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Greater Love Hath No Man

1911-06-30

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In the Year 2000

1912-05-17

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Midwife to the Upper Class

1902-09-01

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Algie, the Miner

1912-02-28

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Les démolisseurs

1896-03-31

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Les congierges

1896-03-31

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The Banknote

1907-04-23

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L'Honneur du Corse

1906-01-01

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Two Little Rangers

1912-08-07

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Falling Leaves

1912-03-15

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The Consequences of Feminism

1906-12-21

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Madame's Cravings

1906-07-22

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Déménagement à la cloche de bois

1905-04-26

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A Fool and His Money

1912-01-01

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A Fool and His Money

1912-01-01

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The Monster and the Girl

1914-03-16

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Algie, the Miner

1912-02-28

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Across the Mexican Line

1911-04-27

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Cupid and the Comet

1911-06-20

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The Lure

1914-08-24

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The Lure

1914-08-24

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The Vampire

1915-08-09

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The Vampire

1915-08-09

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Tramp Strategy

1911-04-11

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Coucher d'une Parisienne

1900-01-01

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Coucher d'une Parisienne

1900-01-01

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Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak

1898-01-01

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The Dream Woman

1914-03-01

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The Dream Woman

1914-03-01

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Les Druides

1906-12-31

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A Priest's Conscience

1906-03-08

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A Priest's Conscience

1906-03-08

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Esmeralda

1905-12-01

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A Severe Test

1913-04-25

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La Sortie du Bain

1899-01-01

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Canned Harmony

1912-10-09

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The Cabbage-Patch Fairy

1900-01-01

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The Adventurer

1917-02-15

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La Gigue

1902-08-22

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Danse fantaisiste

1902-08-21

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Serpentine Dance

1902-08-20

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The Detective's Dog

1912-02-16

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A Story Well Spun

1906-11-11

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Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris

1907-01-01

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Gavotte directoire

1900-01-01

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His Mother's Hymn

1911-10-03

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The Cleaning Man

1907-07-05

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Alice Guy - 13 Courts-métrages

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His Double

1912-08-28

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A House Divided

1913-05-02

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The Girl in the Arm-Chair

1912-12-13

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Mixed Pets

1911-02-17

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The First Cigarette

1904-05-01

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The Crime on Temple Street

1904-11-04

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The High Cost of Living

1912-10-23

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The Coming of Sunbeam

1913-01-22

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The New Love And The Old

1912-11-06

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The New Love And The Old

1912-11-06

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The Roads That Lead Home

1913-01-01

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The Roads That Lead Home

1913-01-01

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God Disposes

1912-02-23

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Cake Walk, Performed by Nouveau Cirque

1905-01-01

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House of Cards

1917-06-04

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The Empress

1917-03-11

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The Empress

1917-03-11

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The Cabbage-Patch Fairy

1896-03-31

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Greater Love Hath No Man

1911-06-30

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Fra Diavolo

1912-07-01

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Fra Diavolo

1912-07-01

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Making an American Citizen

1912-10-30

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Dick Whittington and His Cat

1913-04-16

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Dick Whittington and His Cat

1913-04-16

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Beasts of the Jungle

1913-01-01

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The Great Adventure

1918-03-10

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House of Cards

1917-06-04

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For Love of the Flag

1912-07-15

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A Terrible Lesson

1912-02-16

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Matrimony's Speed Limit

1913-06-11

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In a Bamboo Hut

1905-01-01

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What is a flag?

1909-01-01

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Frozen on Love's Trail

1912-01-28

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Starting Something

1911-07-05

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A Comedy of Errors

1912-11-20

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Parson Sue

1912-01-17

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Le cireur distrait

1905-04-26

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La chaussette

1906-04-26

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A Man's a Man

1912-01-19

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The Strike

1912-08-16

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The Thief

1913-02-14

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Butterfly Dances

2007-06-01

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Cousins of Sherlocko

1913-01-01

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Officer Henderson

1913-03-11

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Mireille

1906-01-03

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The Sewer

1912-04-24

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Course de taureaux à Nîmes

1906-01-08

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The Song of the Wage Slave

1915-10-04

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Cupid and the Comet

1911-06-20

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Broken Oaths

1912-07-24

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Les malabares: Les acrobats

1902-09-01

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Bonsoir

1910-01-01

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The Fairy of Spring

1906-07-03

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Shadows of the Moulin Rouge

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Shadows of the Moulin Rouge

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Shadows of the Moulin Rouge

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Behind the Mask

1917-09-03

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Dublin Dan

1912-09-01

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Kelly from the Emerald Isle

1913-06-03

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The Woman of Mystery

1914-05-10

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The Woman of Mystery

1914-05-10

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The Rogues of Paris

1913-10-24

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The Rogues of Paris

1913-10-24

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Beasts of the Jungle

1913-01-01

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The Face at the Window

1912-12-06

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Greater Love Hath No Man

1911-06-30

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When You and I Were Young

1917-07-16

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The Violin Maker of Nuremberg

1911-12-22

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Mignon

1912-02-02

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Mrs. Cranston's Jewels

1912-02-09

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Hubby Does the Washing

1912-02-21

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Hubby Does the Washing

1912-02-21

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Blighted Lives

1912-03-01

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Child of the Tenements

1912-03-22

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The Reformation of Mary

1912-05-01

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The Reformation of Mary

1912-05-01

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The Wooing of Alice

1912-05-08

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Souls in the Shadow

1912-05-11

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Phantom Paradise

1912-08-28

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Treasures on the Wing

1912-09-11

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The Love of the Flag

1912-09-25

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A Comedy of Errors

1912-11-20

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Hearts Unknown

1912-12-18

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The Woman Behind the Man

1912-12-27

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Burstup Homes

1913-02-19