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