Jeanne De Casalis

Jeanne De Casalis

Personal information

Known for
Acting
Known credits
22
Gender
Female
Born
May 21, 1897
Died
August 19, 1966
Place of birth
Basutoland, South Africa

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.

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Jamaica Inn
Movie
1939

Jamaica Inn

Movie · 1939

Cottage to Let
Movie
1941

Cottage to Let

Movie · 1941

They Met in the Dark
Movie
1943

They Met in the Dark

Movie · 1943

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Movie
1940

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt

Movie · 1940

The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
Movie
1950

The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery

Movie · 1950

Sailors Three
Movie
1940

Sailors Three

Movie · 1940