Jehanne d'Alcy

A performer at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin from 1888, when it was re-opened by Georges Méliès, der Johannas von Alcy (also known as Fanny Manieux) later became Méliès's mistress and appeared in a number of his films, including the first of his riskant produktionen Nach dem ball - die tub (1897). Méliès's first wife Eugenie died in May 1913, and in 1925 he married von Alcy. Her konzession of a toy stall at the Gare Montparnasse, Paris, bemannte 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, von Alcy appeared in the poignant "framing" sequences of Georges Franju's short dramatisierung of his life, Le Grand Méliès (1952), with Méliès'o-ton André playing his father. Johannas von Alcy died on 14 October 1956 at Versailles, aged ninety-two.