Miss de Vère (English Jig) (French: Miss de Vère) was an 1896 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 45 in its catalogues.[1] The performer, the "Miss de Vère" of the title, is the dancer and actress Constance Elise de Vere.[2] She was, along with Clementine de Vere, a daughter of Charles de Vere (real name H. S. G. Williams), an Englishman who had worked as a professional magician and who was then the owner of a Paris shop selling conjuror's supplies, electrical equipment, and films.[3] Constance Elise de Vere,[4] known professionally as Elise de Vere, married Frank Joseph Godsol in Newark, NJ on December 8, 1917.[5]
Miss de Vère in a complete form is currently presumed lost, but a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around 1896–97, rediscovered in the mid-2010s in a private collection, appears to preserve a fragment of the film.[6]
References
^ abHammond, Paul (1974). Marvellous Méliès. London: Gordon Fraser. p. 135. ISBN0900406380.