Alice Guy-Blaché
1873–1968 (age 95)
film director/producer
Biography
Alice Guy-Blaché stepped into the earliest days of cinema, directing stories for Gaumont and later founding the Solax Company to write, shoot, and produce films that proved the medium could express the lives of women and families.
Her courageous career as writer, director, and studio head broke new ground for women in entertainment, leaving behind a body of work and a belief in cinema's power to connect people.