Jeanne De Casalis

Jeanne De Casalis

Birth : 1897-05-22, Basutoland, South Africa

Death : 1966-08-19

History

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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Jeanne De Casalis

Movies

The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
Self - The Twenty Questions Team guest artiste
The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series of murders in which the killer uses the program to name his victims in advance. Two reporters spot a link between them and enlist the aid of the panel in trapping the guilty party.
Woman Hater
Clair
A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.
The Turners of Prospect Road
Mrs. Webster
A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of crooked rival owners, the dog eventually wins the Greyhound Derby.
This Man Is Mine
Mrs Ferguson
One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.
Medal for the General
Lady Frome
A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
They Met in the Dark
Lady with Dog
A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
Cottage to Let
Mrs. Barrington
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
Sailors Three
Mrs. Pilkington
Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Aunt Lucy
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.
The Girl Who Forgot
Mrs. Barradine
A young women under a lot of pressure in her life decides to take a train trip to mellow out, but is suddenly stricken with a case of amnesia. A con artist takes advantage...
Just like a Woman
Poppy Mayne
A group of private detectives working for a jeweler pursue a gang of thieves in Argentina.
Jamaica Inn
Sir Humphrey's Dinner Guest
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an inkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
Nell Gwyn
Duchess of Portsmouth
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth. Nell becomes his most loyal subject, while ever-ready to take the Duchess down a peg. But the actress can never hope to be fully accepted by the King's circle despite his constant attentions.
Radio Parade
Mrs. Feather
Radio Parade (1933) is a variety film featuring such stars of the time as Clapham and Dwyer, Gert and Daisy, Reginald Gardiner, Florence Desmond, and Roy Fox.
The 'Feather' Bed: A Mrs. Feather Dilemma
Mrs Feather
'Mrs Feather's concern for her husband's influenza prevents him geeting the sleep he needs.' (British Film Institute)
Nine Till Six
Yvonne
Two women of different social backgrounds work together in a dressmakers.
Knowing Men
Delphine (Baronne de Baudun)
Facing an arranged marriage to a man of dubious morals, heiress Korah Hurley poses as the impoverished travelling companion of her aunt, the Marquise de Jaurmais, in order to test whether her rakish fiancé's affections are truly for her or for the fortune she will inherit.
Infatuation
Georgette
A youth falls for an ageing actress and discovers she is his mother.
Settled Out of Court
The Wife
A husband's attempts to escape from a loveless marriage ends in tragedy.