Jeanne d'Alcy

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Jeanne d'Alcy
Jeanne d'Alcy in the Méliès film La colonne de feu (1899)

Jeanne d'Alcy (born March 20, 1865 in Vaujours , † October 14, 1956 in Versailles ) was a French actress .

Life

D'Alcy has been on stage at Georges Méliès ' Théâtre Robert-Houdin since 1888 and appeared in early short films from 1896 - one year after the first film was made. D'Alcy is one of the very first film actresses and the first French film actress. She played the title roles in Cléopâtre (1899) and Jeanne d'Arc (1900), and D'Alcy also appeared in Méliès' best-known film Die Reise zum Mond (1902).

D'Alcy later also became the director's lover. In December 1925 she married the widowed Méliès and ran a confectionery and toy shop with him in Gare Montparnasse in Paris , which she owned. D'Alcy was married to Méliès until his death in 1938. In 1952 she gave an interview for the documentary Le Grand Méliès about the life of the film pioneer. She herself died in Versailles in 1956 at the age of 91 . In 2011 she was portrayed in the film Hugo Cabret by Helen McCrory .

Filmography

  • 1896: Le manoir du diable
  • 1896: Escamotage d'une dame au théâtre Robert Houdin
  • 1897: Faust and Marguerite
  • 1897: Après le bal
  • 1898: Pygmalion et Galathée
  • 1899: La colonne de feu
  • 1899: Cléopâtre
  • 1899: Cendrillon
  • 1900: Joan of Arc
  • 1901: Nouvelles luttes extravagantes
  • 1901: Barbel bleue
  • 1902: The Journey to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune)
  • 1903: L'enchanteur Alcofribas
  • 1907: Le tunnel sous La Manche ou Le cauchemar franco-anglais
  • 1952: Le Grand Méliès (documentary as herself)

Web links

Commons : Jeanne d'Alcy  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The real name of the actress was Charlotte Faës and appeared under the pseudonym Jeanne (Jehanne) d'Alcy also under the name Fanny Manieux : Adrian Room: Dictionary of Pseudonyms. 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins. 5th edition. McFarland & Co. Publishers, Jefferson NC 2010, ISBN 978-0-7864-5763-2 .
  2. ↑ Frank Kessler in: Richard Abel (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Early Cinema. Routledge, London et al. 2010, ISBN 978-0-415-77856-5 , p. 419.
personal data
SURNAME Alcy, Jeanne d '
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faes, Charlotte (real name); Alcy, Jehanne d '(alternative name); Manieux, Fanny (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Vaujours
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1956
Place of death Versailles