Jehanne d'Alcy

Known for ActingBorn 1865-03-20Died 1956-10-14Вожур, Франція

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.Read more

Movies & web series

A Trip to the Moon

Le Grand Méliès

The Impossible Voyage

The Astronomer's Dream

Joan of Arc

The Fat and Lean Wrestling Match

Tunneling the English Channel

Le manoir du diable

Bluebeard

Cinderella

The Vanishing Lady

A Nightmare

The Pillar of Fire

The Temptation of St. Anthony

Le château hanté

Pygmalion and Galatea

Alcofribas, The Master Magician

After the Ball

Faust and Marguerite

Faust and Marguerite

Cleopatra's Tomb

Georges Méliès: The First Wizard of Cinema (1896-1913)