Jeanne De Casalis

Jeanne De Casalis

Birth Date

5/21/1897 (Age 69)

Birth Place

Basutoland, South Africa

Death Date

8/19/1966

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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 o...

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Acting

Gender

Female

Total Credits

2

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Mrs. Barrington

Sir Humphrey's Dinner Guest

Frequent Collaborators

Anthony Asquith

Anthony Asquith

1 film together

Leslie Banks

Leslie Banks

1 film together

J.O.C. Orton

J.O.C. Orton

1 film together

Anatole de Grunwald

Anatole de Grunwald

1 film together

Jack E. Cox

1 film together

Carla Lehmann

Carla Lehmann

1 film together

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