Acting

Jeanne De Casalis

Born May 21, 1897 · Basutoland, South Africa

Died August 19, 1966 · aged 69

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 L…

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Jamaica Inn

Jamaica Inn · 1939

MovieCrimeAdventure

In 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.

Woman Hater

Woman Hater · 1948

MovieComedyRomance

An English lord who dislikes women meets a French movie star who dislikes men.

Cottage to Let

Cottage to Let · 1941

MovieThrillerMystery

Allied 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.

They Met in the Dark

They Met in the Dark · 1943

They Met in the Dark

MovieMysteryRomance

A 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.

Radio Parade

Radio Parade · 1933

Radio 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.

This Man Is Mine

This Man Is Mine · 1946

This Man Is Mine

One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.

Medal for the General

Medal for the General · 1944

Medal for the General

A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.

Knowing Men

Knowing Men · 1930

MovieRomanceComedy

Facing 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.

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Jamaica Inn

Jamaica Inn · 1939

MovieCrimeAdventure

In 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.

Sir Humphrey's Dinner Guest

Woman Hater

Woman Hater · 1948

MovieComedyRomance

An English lord who dislikes women meets a French movie star who dislikes men.

Clair

Cottage to Let

Cottage to Let · 1941

MovieThrillerMystery

Allied 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.

Mrs. Barrington

They Met in the Dark

They Met in the Dark · 1943

They Met in the Dark

MovieMysteryRomance

A 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.

Lady with Dog

Radio Parade

Radio Parade · 1933

Radio 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.

Mrs. Feather

This Man Is Mine

This Man Is Mine · 1946

This Man Is Mine

One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.

Mrs Ferguson

Medal for the General

Medal for the General · 1944

Medal for the General

A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.

Lady Frome

Knowing Men

Knowing Men · 1930

MovieRomanceComedy

Facing 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.

Delphine (Baronne de Baudun)

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt · 1940

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt

Charley'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.

Aunt Lucy

Infatuation

Infatuation · 1930

A youth falls for an ageing actress and discovers she is his mother.

Georgette

Sailors Three

Sailors Three · 1940

Three 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.

Mrs. Pilkington

The Glad Eye

The Glad Eye · 1927

'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)

Lucienne

The 'Feather' Bed: A Mrs. Feather Dilemma

The 'Feather' Bed: A Mrs. Feather Dilemma · 1933

The 'Feather' Bed: A Mrs. Feather Dilemma

'Mrs Feather's concern for her husband's influenza prevents him geeting the sleep he needs.' (British Film Institute)

Mrs Feather