Jeanne De Casalis

Jeanne De Casalis

Born: May 21, 1897
Died: August 19, 1966
in Basutoland, South Africa
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.

Movies for Jeanne De Casalis...

The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
Title: The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
Character: Self - The Twenty Questions Team guest artiste
Released: January 31, 1950
Type: Movie
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 programme 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.
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Woman Hater
Title: Woman Hater
Character: Clair
Released: October 13, 1948
Type: Movie
A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.
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The Turners of Prospect Road
Title: The Turners of Prospect Road
Character: Mrs. Webster
Released: June 16, 1947
Type: Movie
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.
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This Man Is Mine
Title: This Man Is Mine
Character: Mrs Ferguson
Released: September 12, 1946
Type: Movie
One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.
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Medal for the General
Title: Medal for the General
Character: Lady Frome
Released: November 6, 1944
Type: Movie
A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
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They Met in the Dark
Title: They Met in the Dark
Character: Lady with Dog
Released: August 11, 1943
Type: Movie
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.
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Cottage to Let
Title: Cottage to Let
Character: Mrs. Barrington
Released: September 6, 1941
Type: Movie
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.
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Sailors Three
Title: Sailors Three
Character: Mrs. Pilkington
Released: December 14, 1940
Type: Movie
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.
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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Title: Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Character: Aunt Lucy
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
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.
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The Girl Who Forgot
Title: The Girl Who Forgot
Character: Mrs. Barradine
Released: February 24, 1940
Type: Movie
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...
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Just like a Woman
Title: Just like a Woman
Character: Poppy Mayne
Released: November 16, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of private detectives working for a jeweler pursue a gang of thieves in Argentina.
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Jamaica Inn
Title: Jamaica Inn
Character: Sir Humphrey's Dinner Guest
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
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 innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
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Nell Gwyn
Title: Nell Gwyn
Character: Duchess of Portsmouth
Released: August 1, 1934
Type: Movie
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.
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Radio Parade
Title: Radio Parade
Character: Mrs. Feather
Released: October 1, 1933
Type: Movie
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.
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The 'Feather' Bed: A Mrs. Feather Dilemma
Title: The 'Feather' Bed: A Mrs. Feather Dilemma
Character: Mrs Feather
Released: April 24, 1933
Type: Movie
'Mrs Feather's concern for her husband's influenza prevents him geeting the sleep he needs.' (British Film Institute)
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Nine Till Six
Title: Nine Till Six
Character: Yvonne
Released: March 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Two women of different social backgrounds work together in a dressmakers.
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Knowing Men
Title: Knowing Men
Character: Delphine (Baronne de Baudun)
Released: February 1, 1930
Type: Movie
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.
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Infatuation
Title: Infatuation
Character: Georgette
Released: February 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A youth falls for an ageing actress and discovers she is his mother.
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The Arcadians
Title: The Arcadians
Character: Mrs Smith
Released: October 1, 1927
Type: Movie
'Club-owner crashes plane in Arcady, land of truth and beauty.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Glad Eye
Title: The Glad Eye
Character: Lucienne
Released: June 1, 1927
Type: Movie
'The story concerns the misadventures of two flighty husbands in Paris on the spree. They find an excuse for their absence from home by pretending that they are accompanying a famous airman on a flight, but the latter does not proceed according to plan, and they have a hard time countering the suspicious questionings and moves of the sophisticated wife.' (BFI)
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Settled Out of Court
Title: Settled Out of Court
Character: The Wife
Released: October 1, 1925
Type: Movie
A husband's attempts to escape from a loveless marriage ends in tragedy.