Jeanne De Casalis

Acting

Biography

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.

Filmography Movies

Acting

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Jamaica Inn

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In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.

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Jamaica Inn

Sir Humphrey's Dinner Guest

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Cottage to Let

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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.

They Met in the Dark

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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.

The Arcadians

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'Club-owner crashes plane in Arcady, land of truth and beauty.' (British Film Catalogue)

The Glad Eye

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'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)

Knowing Men

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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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Knowing Men

Delphine (Baronne de Baudun)

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This Man Is Mine

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One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.

Radio Parade

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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

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'Mrs Feather's concern for her husband's influenza prevents him geeting the sleep he needs.' (British Film Institute)

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The 'Feather' Bed: A Mrs. Feather Dilemma

Mrs Feather

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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt

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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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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt

Aunt Lucy