Director's Guild of America

Female film pioneer remembered in Mahwah

Alice Directs MY MADONNAAlice Directs MY MADONNAThe 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.

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Alice Guy's Birthday to be Celebrated in Fort Lee, NJ

Madame  Blaché is buried at Maryrest Cemetery which is located at 25 Seminary Road, Mahwah NJ.

We want to start a tradition of the Fort Lee Film Commission of placing a wreath of flowers on Madame  Blaché's grave each year on her birthday of July 1 - she was born July 1, 1873 and died March 24, 1968.

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