Jehanne d'Alcy

Biography

A performer at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin from 1888, when it was re-opened by Georges Méliès, Jehanne d'Alcy (also known as Fanny Manieux) later became Méliès's mistress and appeared in a number of his films, including the first of his risqué productions Après le bal - le tub (1897). Méliès's first wife Eugenie died in May 1913, and in 1925 he married d'Alcy. Her concession of a toy stall at the Gare Montparnasse, Paris, manned by Georges, provided their only income for several years. In 1932 they moved into an apartment at a home for cinema veterans. After Méliès's death, d'Alcy appeared in the poignant framing sequences of Georges Franju's short dramatisation of his life, Le Grand Méliès (1952), with Méliès's son André playing his father. Jehanne d'Alcy died on 14 October 1956 at Versailles, aged ninety-two.

Known For

A Trip to the Moon

Le manoir du diable

Barbe-bleue

Cinderella

The Impossible Voyage

After the Ball

Le château hanté

A Nightmare

All Movies (23)

• Le Grand Méliès1952 · as Self
• Le Grand Méliès1952 · as Commentaire
• Tunneling the English Channel1907
• The Impossible Voyage1904 · as Селянка в морському порту (без вказання в титрах)
• Faust and Marguerite1904
• Alcofribas, The Master Magician1903
• A Trip to the Moon1902 · as Секретарка / Зірка / Стюардеса ракети
• Bluebeard1901 · as Le Nouvelle Épouse de Barbe-bleue (as Jeanne d'Alcy)
• Barbe-bleue1901
• The Astronomer's Dream1900 · as Фібі
• Joan of Arc1900 · as Mère de Jeanne
• The Fat and Lean Wrestling Match1900
• Cinderella1899 · as La Reine Mère
• The Pillar of Fire1899 · as Ayesha
• Cleopatra's Tomb1899 · as le fantôme de Cléopâtre
• Pygmalion and Galatea1898
• The Temptation of St. Anthony1898 · as La tentatrice / l'ange.
• After the Ball1897 · as La femme qui prend son bain
• Faust and Marguerite1897 · as Marguerite
• Le château hanté1897 · as Young woman
• A Nightmare1896 · as Woman in Toga
• Le manoir du diable1896 · as Дама
• The Vanishing Lady1896 · as Дама