Puzzle 27 · November 7, 2026 · Famous people · level extreme

Alice Guy-Blaché: would you have recognised it under the tiles?

This photo was Unvil’s mystery photo of the day. It was fully hidden under a mosaic of tiles: every close word knocked some down until the answer, “Alice Guy-Blaché”， was found.

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Black-and-white portrait of a woman with voluminous hair, in a lace dress and necklace, seated in a carved armchair. — Alice Guy-Blaché · Photo : Apeda Studio New York, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Alice Guy-Blaché in a few words

Alice Guy (1873–1968), Léon Gaumont’s secretary who became the first woman film director: she made The Cabbage Fairy as early as 1896, then hundreds of films in France and the United States, where she founded Solax with her husband Herbert Blaché.

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She is a film personality.
She was born in Saint-Mandé, near Paris, in 1873.
A secretary at Gaumont, she shot one of the very first fiction films, The Cabbage Fairy, in 1896.
The first woman film director in history, she founded her own studio, Solax, in the United States.

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