Movies: Alice Guy-Blaché

A wonderful midwife helps a rich couple pick out a baby from her cabbage patch....

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

Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe....

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The husband of Mrs, Cranston is in tight quarters. He is caught both "short" in funds and in stock. In order that he may be able to cover up his margins, he decides to rob his wife's jewels. He plans to do so, but his wife anticipates him and steals ...

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"Danse fantaisiste" (Gaumont #589) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be confused with "Danse excentrique" (Gaumont #587), "Danse serpentine" (Gaumont #588, the only extant film in...

The head of the family, in search of money, dons the clothes left by the village priest. He commits a terrible deed, and later, the priest learns of it; That it was committed in his frock. The priest looks to the Lord for guidance....

M. Dona appears in this Alice Guy film where he performs the title song....

Melodrama with the trappings of a military firm...

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, makes the acquaintance of an actress and the inevitable follows. He marries her, much against the com...

Paul Wellard is leaving home for the city. He goes to say good-bye to his mother and finds her at the organ singing her favorite hymn. For a while he prospers very well in the city, but finally gets in bad company, gambles, steals and loses his posit...

"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 receives a beating for her trouble. Jim, a cowboy, rides past the shack, hears Mrs. Gray's screams and i...

"This funny individual will make you laugh until your sides ache. He is funny in all his actions, yet when he puts on his shoes you can imagine the noise he can make when he dances an ordinary clog. The shoes referred to are made of some elastic mate...

Actuality film of miners entering a mine....

The parish priest looks to create a Nativity scene for his church, but his congregation is too poor to afford the statuary dealer's price for a statue of baby Jesus. The miracle, then, is that the faithful's prayers are answered by the appearance of ...

Felix Mayol performs Théodore Botrel's 'Lilas-blanc'....