Alice Guy Blaché, photographed by the White Studio, ca. 1910
- TitleAlice Guy Blaché memoirs manuscript, 1986 - 1986 (inclusive)
- Collector
- Date(s)1986 - 1986 (inclusive)
- Description
1 folder(s) of papers
Vertical file
- Summary
The Alice Guy Blaché memoirs manuscript is dated 1986. It is the original manuscript of the English translation by Roberta and Simone Blaché of "The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché." It is heavily annotated by film historian Anthony Slide and includes both a complete text of appendices and sections not used in the book that was published in 1986 and edited by Slide.
- BiographyAlice Guy Blaché was a French-born director who is generally considered to be one of the first directors of a fiction film. Alice Guy was Gaumont's head of production from 1896 to 1906. She married Herbert Blaché in 1907 and they took up residence in the United States and co-founded Solax Studios. In 1922, after having worked in the New York and Hollywood, Guy Blaché returned to France where she often gave lectures on film.
- Subjects
- Acquisitions InformationGift of Anthony Slide, 1997
- Preferred citationAlice Guy Blaché memoirs manuscript, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- DepartmentLibrary
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- Moving Image Items
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