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Pygmalion et Galathée (1898)
Character: N/A
Showing 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.
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Le voyage à travers l'impossible (1904)
Character: Villager at Seaport (uncredited)
Using 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.
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La tentation de Saint-Antoine (1898)
Character: Seductive Woman Who Appears on the Cross (uncredited)
St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!
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Après le Bal (1897)
Character: Woman
A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.
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Jeanne d'Arc (1900)
Character: Mère de Jeanne
A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.
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La danse du feu (1899)
Character: Ayesha
A 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.
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Barbe-bleue (1901)
Character: Le Nouvelle Épouse de Barbe-bleue (as Jeanne d'Alcy)
A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.
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Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902)
Character: Secretary / Star / Rocket Attendant (uncredited)
Professor 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.
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Le Grand Méliès (1952)
Character: Commentaire
A biographical film about cinematic illusionist Georges Méliès featuring Méliès’s widow, Jeanne d’Alcy, as herself, and their son André as his own father.
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Le Grand Méliès (1952)
Character: Self
A biographical film about cinematic illusionist Georges Méliès featuring Méliès’s widow, Jeanne d’Alcy, as herself, and their son André as his own father.
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Cendrillon (1899)
Character: Fairy Godmother
A 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.
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Le manoir du diable (1896)
Character: Young woman
In 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.
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Le cauchemar (1896)
Character: Woman in Toga
A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.
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Cléopâtre (1899)
Character: le fantôme de Cléopâtre
A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it. This film is presumably lost.
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