Jeanne De Casalis
Born: 1897-05-21 in Basutoland, South Africa
Died: 1966-08-19
Known For: 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
1950
- The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery as Self - The Twenty Questions Team guest artiste
1948
- Woman Hater as Clair
1947
- The Turners of Prospect Road as Mrs. Webster
1946
- This Man Is Mine as Mrs Ferguson
1944
- Medal for the General as Lady Frome
1943
- They Met in the Dark as Lady with Dog
1942
- Those Kids from Town as Sheila
1941
- Cottage to Let as Mrs. Barrington
1940
- Sailors Three as Mrs. Pilkington
- Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt as Aunt Lucy
- The Girl Who Forgot as Mrs. Barradine
1939
- Jamaica Inn as Sir Humphrey's Dinner Guest
- Just like a Woman as Poppy Mayne
1934
- Nell Gwyn as Duchess of Portsmouth
1933
- Radio Parade as Mrs. Feather
- The 'Feather' Bed: A Mrs. Feather Dilemma as Mrs Feather
1932
- Nine Till Six as Yvonne
1930
- Infatuation as Georgette
- Knowing Men as Delphine (Baronne de Baudun)
1927
- The Glad Eye as Lucienne
- The Arcadians as Mrs Smith
1925
- Settled Out of Court as The Wife