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.

Movies with Jehanne d'Alcy

• A Trip to the Moon 1902 · ★ 7.9
• The Astronomer's Dream 1900 · ★ 7.0
• Le manoir du diable 1896 · ★ 6.4
• The Impossible Voyage 1904 · ★ 7.3
• The Vanishing Lady 1896 · ★ 6.2
• Cinderella 1899 · ★ 6.2
• A Nightmare 1896 · ★ 6.1
• After the Ball 1897 · ★ 5.1
• Le château hanté 1897 · ★ 5.7
• Bluebeard 1901 · ★ 6.3
• Joan of Arc 1900 · ★ 6.9
• The Pillar of Fire 1899 · ★ 5.8
• The Temptation of St. Anthony 1898 · ★ 5.8
• The Fat and Lean Wrestling Match 1900 · ★ 6.6
• Tunneling the English Channel 1907 · ★ 6.5
• Pygmalion and Galatea 1898 · ★ 5.2
• Alcofribas, The Master Magician 1903 · ★ 5.1
• Le Grand Méliès 1952 · ★ 6.9
• Faust and Marguerite 1904 · ★ 5.0
• Faust and Marguerite 1897 · ★ 3.9
• Cleopatra's Tomb 1899 · ★ 1.7
• Georges Méliès: The First Wizard of Cinema (1896-1913) 2008