Alice Guy's Birthday to be Celebrated at her graveside in July 1st, 2010
Some of the attendees at the July 1st, 2010 Graveside Birthday Celebration for Alice Guy.
Some of the attendees at the July 1st, 2010 Graveside Birthday Celebration for Alice Guy.
The first woman filmmaker, Alice Guy-Blaché, was remembered Thursday during a brief graveside ceremony at Maryrest Cemetery in Mahwah on what would have been her 137th birthday.
July 1st is Alice Guy Blaché 's birthday. Madame Blaché , was the first woman director in cinema history and she built Solax Studio in Fort Lee in 1912. There she produced, directed and wrote hundreds of films through World War 1. After the war she went to Hollywood and the director's door was closed to her as it was when she thereafter returned to her native France. She returned to NJ in the 1960s and died a few short miles from her Fort Lee Studio.
Madame Blaché is buried at Maryrest Cemetery which is located at 25 Seminary Road, Mahwah NJ.
Alice Guy is getting popular on the blogosphere out in New Zealand:
Ophelia Thinks Hard by an actress. And from New York, and
Women in World by a screenwriter.
'Las estaciones perdidas del cine mudo en Málaga' book on early cinema by Francisco Griñán, wins ASECAN’s “Best Book Written About Film” Prize 2009.
The catalogue edited by Joan Simon for the Whitney Retrospective of the work of Alice Guy Blaché last winter has won the Silver Medal in the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Winners will be honored in a ceremony on May 25th in New York City. For more information look here.
That same evening we were going to Seville, hoping to find the ideal Carmen. The cigarette-girls whom we met had, without doubt, inherited the combative character of that heroine, but unfortunately not her seductive charm. We had to content ourselves with taking some documentaries: the celebrated Giralda, the house of Adam, the sultan’s garden and his bath of which, despite my encouragements, Anatole obstinately refused to taste the water. (The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché, p. 49)