Jeanne De Casalis
Actor · 1897 – 1966 · Basutoland, South Africa
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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Movie6.1CrimeAdventureIn early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.
Jamaica Inn
1939 · 258 votes
Movie7.6ComedyWarThree sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.
Sailors Three
1940 · 5 votes
Movie7.7ComedyRomanceAn English lord who dislikes women meets a French movie star who dislikes men.
Woman Hater
1948 · 3 votes
Movie6.0MysteryComedyThe story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series of murders in which the killer uses the programme to name his victims in advance. Two reporters spot a link between them and enlist the aid of the panel in trapping the guilty party.
The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
1950 · 7 votes
Movie9.0Radio Parade (1933) is a variety film featuring such stars of the time as Clapham and Dwyer, Gert and Daisy, Reginald Gardiner, Florence Desmond, and Roy Fox.
Radio Parade
1933 · 1 votes
Movie5.6ComedyCharley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
1940 · 7 votes
Movie6.7ThrillerMysteryAllied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
Cottage to Let
1941 · 23 votes
Movie6.3MysteryRomanceA Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
They Met in the Dark
1943 · 15 votes
Movie7.7WarDramaA retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
Medal for the General
1944 · 3 votes
Movie10.0WarComedyOne wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.
This Man Is Mine
1946 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
A group of private detectives working for a jeweler pursue a gang of thieves in Argentina.
Just like a Woman
1939 · 1 votes
- Movie6.0Comedy
A young women under a lot of pressure in her life decides to take a train trip to mellow out, but is suddenly stricken with a case of amnesia. A con artist takes advantage...
The Girl Who Forgot
1940 · 3 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
Those Kids from Town
1942 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0ComedyDrama
A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of crooked rival owners, the dog eventually wins the Greyhound Derby.
The Turners of Prospect Road
1947 · 2 votes
- Movie6.7History
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth. Nell becomes his most loyal subject, while ever-ready to take the Duchess down a peg. But the actress can never hope to be fully accepted by the King's circle despite his constant attentions.
Nell Gwyn
1934 · 6 votes
Movie7.0RomanceA youth falls for an ageing actress and discovers she is his mother.
Infatuation
1930 · 1 votes
Movie10.0RomanceComedyFacing an arranged marriage to a man of dubious morals, heiress Korah Hurley poses as the impoverished travelling companion of her aunt, the Marquise de Jaurmais, in order to test whether her rakish fiancé's affections are truly for her or for the fortune she will inherit.
Knowing Men
1930 · 1 votes
Movie10.0Comedy'The story concerns the misadventures of two flighty husbands in Paris on the spree. They find an excuse for their absence from home by pretending that they are accompanying a famous airman on a flight, but the latter does not proceed according to plan, and they have a hard time countering the suspicious questionings and moves of the sophisticated wife.' (BFI)
The Glad Eye
1927 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Fantasy
'Club-owner crashes plane in Arcady, land of truth and beauty.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Arcadians
1927 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
Two women of different social backgrounds work together in a dressmakers.
Nine Till Six
1932 · 1 votes
Movie9.0Comedy'Mrs Feather's concern for her husband's influenza prevents him geeting the sleep he needs.' (British Film Institute)
The 'Feather' Bed: A Mrs. Feather Dilemma
1933 · 1 votes