Jeanne De Casalis

Born: 1897-05-21

From Wikipedia Jeanne de Casalis (22 May 1897 – 19 August 1966) was a Basutoland-born British actress of stage, radio, TV and film. Born in Basutoland as Jeanne Casalis de Pury, she was educated in France, where her businessman father was the proprietor of one of that country's largest corset retailers, Charneaux. She initiated her career in music first, only later beginning to work onstage in London. She appeared on stage in The Mask of Virtue with Vivien Leigh (1935), and in Agatha Christie's The Hollow. Her best-known films were Cottage to Let (1941) and Jamaica Inn (1939). She married English actor Colin Clive, best remembered for Frankenstein (1931), in June 1929, though they were later estranged for several years before his death on 25 June 1937 from tuberculosis. Her second husband, whom she married around 1938, was RAF Wing Commander Cowan Douglas Stephenson; they lived at Hunger Hatch near Ashford, Kent. Jeanne de Casalis died on 19 August 1966. She was 69.


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Jamaica Inn

as Sir Humphrey's Dinner Guest
Released: 1939-05-11

In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to...

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They Met in the Dark

as Lady with Dog
Released: 1943-08-11

A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him...

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Sailors Three

as Mrs. Pilkington
Released: 1940-12-14

Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise...

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Nell Gwyn

as Duchess of Portsmouth
Released: 1934-08-01

King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become...

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Cottage to Let

as Mrs. Barrington
Released: 1941-09-06

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime...

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Woman Hater

as Clair
Released: 1948-10-13

A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.

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Medal for the General

as Lady Frome
Released: 1944-11-06

A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.

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The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery

as Self - The Twenty Questions Team guest artiste
Released: 1950-01-31

The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged...

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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt

as Aunt Lucy
Released: 1940-08-31

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring...

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Radio Parade

as Mrs. Feather
Released: 1933-10-01

Radio Parade (1933) is a variety film featuring such stars of the time as Clapham and Dwyer,...

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Knowing Men

as Delphine (Baronne de Baudun)
Released: 1930-02-01

Facing an arranged marriage to a man of dubious morals, heiress Korah Hurley poses as the...

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Infatuation

as Georgette
Released: 1930-02-01

A youth falls for an ageing actress and discovers she is his mother.

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The Glad Eye

as Lucienne
Released: 1927-06-01

'The story concerns the misadventures of two flighty husbands in Paris on the spree. They find...

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The 'Feather' Bed: A Mrs. Feather Dilemma

as Mrs Feather
Released: 1933-04-24

'Mrs Feather's concern for her husband's influenza prevents him geeting the sleep he needs.'...

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