New York Times Obituary for Alice Guy Blaché Published

Alice Guy Blaché finally gets an obituary in the New York Times, as part of the paper’s Overlooked series!

Alice Guy Blaché atop a horse outside her Lemoine Ave. home in Fort Lee, circa 1910s. Courtesy the Barrymore Film Center/Fort Lee Film Commission.

Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.

“Even before women had the right to vote, Blaché, in her actions and in her films, expressed female drives, desires and self-determination.”

To read the full obituary, written by film critic Manohla Dargis: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/obituaries/alice-guy-blache-overlooked.html