Betty Jardine

Birth : 1903-04-17, Heaton Norris, Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK

Death : 1945-02-28

History

Betty Jardine was an English actress, born Elizabeth Kittrick Jardine, and best known for The Ghost Train and A Canterbury Tale. Married to the eminent psychoanalyst, Wilfred Bion, she died on Wednesday, February 28th, 1945, soon after giving birth to her daughter, Parthenope.

Movies

Two Thousand Women
Teresa 'King' Resinger
During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France.
A Canterbury Tale
Fee Baker
Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.
Rhythm Serenade
Helen
Patriotic musical romance. After her school is closed, teacher Ann tries to join up. However, she is persuaded to organise a nursery for a munitions factory.
We'll Meet Again
Miss Bohne
A young dancer trying to make it in London during World War II discovers that people like her singing voice, too. Although she's at first reluctant to sing, she finally does and becomes a star. She hooks up with a young musician who composes classical music and turns his nose up at this vulgar "popular" music, but she believes he can be a success at it and sets out to turn him around.
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Daisy
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
The Ghost Train
Edna Hopkins
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area.
Girl in the News
Elsie
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.
Almost a Honeymoon
Lavinia Pepper
A young man who urgently needs to find a wife so that he can get a lucrative job in the colonial service, and sets out to persuade a woman to marry him.