Jeanne De Casalis

Jeanne de Casalis (born 22 May 1897 in Basutoland, South Africa as Casalis de Pury), was a West End stage, radio, and film actress and dramatic writer, perhaps best known for her character 'Mrs Feather.' She was educated in France - where her father owned one of the largest corset retailers, Charnaux - and began her career in music before working in London. She appeared in such plays as "The Mask of Virtue" with Vivien Leigh (1935), the Agatha Christie play "The Hollow" and such films as Alfred Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn (film) (1939), "Cottage to Let" (1941), and "Nell Gwynn" (1934). She married English actor Colin Clive of Frankenstein (1931 film) fame in June 1929, though they were later estranged for several years before his death on 25 June 1937 from pneumonia. Her second husband, whom she married in approximately 1938, was RAF Wing Commander Cowan Douglas Stephenson; they lived at Hunger Hatch near Ashford, Kent, and remained good friends with Leigh until De Casalis' death on 19 August, 1966.

Filmography

*"The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery" (1950) .... Twenty Questions panellist
** aka "Murder on the Air" (USA)
*"Woman Hater" (1949) .... Clair
*"The Turners of Prospect Road" (1947) .... Mrs. Webster
*"This Man Is Mine" (1946) .... Mrs. Ferguson
*"Medal for the General" (1944) .... Lady Frome
** aka "The Gay Intruders" (USA)
*"They Met in the Dark" (1943) .... Lady with Dog
*"Those Kids from Town" (1942) .... Sheila
*"Cottage to Let" (1941) .... Mrs. Barrington
** aka "Bombsight Stolen"
*"The Fine Feathers" (1941) .... Mrs. Feather
*"Sailors Three" (1940) .... Mrs Pilkington
** aka "Three Cockeyed Sailors" (USA)
*"Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt" (1940) .... Lady Lucy Blessington-Smythe (Aunt Lucy)
*"The Girl Who Forgot" (1940) .... Mrs. Barradine
*"Just Like a Woman" (1939) .... Poppy Mayne
** aka "Sweet Racket"
*"Jamaica Inn" (1939) (as Jeanne de Casalis) .... Sir Humphrey's friend
*"Nell Gwyn" (1934) .... Duchess of Portsmouth
*"The Feather Bed" (1933)
*"Mixed Doubles" (1933) .... Betty Irvine
*"Radio Parade" (1933)
*"Nine Till Six" (1932) .... Yvonne
*"Infatuation" (1930) .... Georgette
*"Knowing Men" (1930) .... Delphine
*"Zero" (1928) .... Julia Norton
*"The Arcadians" (1927) .... Mrs. Smith
** aka "The Land of Heart's Desire" (UK)
*"The Glad Eye" (1927) .... Lucienne
*"Settled Out of Court" (1925)

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0207843/ Jeanne de Casalis at the Internet Movie Database]