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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

22

Gender

Female

Birthday

1897-05-21

Day of Death

1966-08-19 (69 years old)

Place of Birth

Basutoland, South Africa

Also Known As

Jeanne De Casalis

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.

Known For

Acting

Jamaica Inn

1939

Jamaica Inn

as

Sir Humphrey's Dinner Guest

Cottage to Let

1941

Cottage to Let

as

Mrs. Barrington

They Met in the Dark

1943

They Met in the Dark

as

Lady with Dog

The Arcadians

1927

The Arcadians

as

Mrs Smith

The Glad Eye

1927

The Glad Eye

as

Lucienne

Knowing Men

1930

Knowing Men

as

Delphine (Baronne de Baudun)

This Man Is Mine

1946

This Man Is Mine

as

Mrs Ferguson

Radio Parade

1933

Radio Parade

as

Mrs. Feather

Medal for the General

1944

Medal for the General

as

Lady Frome

Just like a Woman

1939

Just like a Woman

as

Poppy Mayne

Sailors Three

1940

Sailors Three

as

Mrs. Pilkington

Settled Out of Court

1925

Settled Out of Court

as

The Wife

Nell Gwyn

1934

Nell Gwyn

as

Duchess of Portsmouth

The Girl Who Forgot

1940

The Girl Who Forgot

as

Mrs. Barradine

Infatuation

1930

Infatuation

as

Georgette

Nine Till Six

1932

Nine Till Six

as

Yvonne

The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery

1950

The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery

as

Self - The Twenty Questions Team guest artiste

Woman Hater

1948

Woman Hater

as

Clair

Production

Crew

Directing