Jehanne d'Alcy
Actor · 1865 – 1956 · Вожур, 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.
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Movie7.9AdventureScience FictionProfessor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.
Movie6.2DramaFamilyA fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets the Prince - but will she remember to leave before the magic runs out? Méliès based the art direction on engravings by Gustave Doré. First known example of a fairy-tale adapted to film, and the first film to use dissolves to go from one scene to another.
Movie6.1HorrorA man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.
Movie7.3AdventureComedyUsing every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
Movie6.3DramaHorrorA young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.
Movie7.0FantasyHorrorAn astronomer has a terrifying dream.
Movie6.9DramaHistoryA divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.
Movie1.7HorrorA lost film. A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it. This film is presumably lost.
Movie6.5AdventureThe plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel.
Movie6.4FantasyHorrorIn a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of interloping cavaliers.
Le manoir du diable
1896 · 219 votes
Movie5.7HorrorA man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.
Le château hanté
1897 · 78 votes
Movie5.0DramaFantasyFaust and his love Marguerite are sentenced to Hell where they are showed the torture that awaits.
Movie6.2MysteryGeorges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.
Movie5.1DramaA woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.
Movie5.8FantasySt. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!
Movie5.8FantasyAdventureA devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the pot. After the devil works the fire with bellows, an angelic woman emerges from the pot. The devil and the pot vanish as the woman performs a dance, waving about her diaphanous sleeves until she conjures forth another fire, then she rises amongst the smoke into the air.
Movie5.1ComedyFantasyTwo men in a cave perform magic.
Movie6.9DocumentaryA biographical film about cinematic illusionist Georges Méliès featuring Méliès’s widow, Jeanne d’Alcy, as herself, and their son André as his own father.
Le Grand Méliès
1952 · 14 votes
Movie5.2FantasyShowing Pygmalion at work in his studio on the statue of Galatea, who, on being completed, comes to life. He attempts to clasp her to his arms, when the bust leaves the body and crossing the room mocks at him standing with the lower portion of her body in his hands. Further startling illusions are seen in this most beautiful picture.
- Movie3.9ComedyFantasy
Mephistopheles demands that Faust kill Marguerite.
Movie6.6ComedyFantasyA series of fantastical wrestling matches.