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

Secretary / Star / Rocket Attendant (uncredited)

Le Voyage dans la Lune

Mère de Jeanne

Jeanne d'Arc

Woman (as Jeanne d'Alcy)

Escamotage d'une dame chez Robert-Houdin

Young woman

Le manoir du diable

Self

Le Grand Méliès

Ayesha

La danse du feu

Woman

Après le Bal

Nouvelles luttes extravagantes

Fairy Godmother

Cendrillon

Commentaire

Le Grand Méliès

Le Nouvelle Épouse de Barbe-bleue (as Jeanne d'Alcy)

Barbe-bleue

le fantôme de Cléopâtre

Cléopâtre

Villager at Seaport (uncredited)

Le Voyage à travers l'impossible

Phoebe

La lune à un mètre

Woman in Toga

Le cauchemar

Faust et Marguerite

Pygmalion et Galathée

Seductive Woman Who Appears on the Cross (uncredited)

La tentation de Saint-Antoine

L’Enchanteur Alcofribas

Tunnel sous la manche ou Le cauchemar franco-anglais

Woman (archive footage from "The Vanishing Lady")

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese