Jeanne De Casalis
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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 21, 1897
Deathday: August 19, 1966
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Jamaica Inn
1939-05-11
Jamaica Inn
Overview: In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
Genres: Crime Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-11
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Cottage to Let
1941-09-06
Cottage to Let
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-06
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They Met in the Dark
1943-08-11
They Met in the Dark
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-11
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The Arcadians
1927-10-01
The Arcadians
Overview: 'Club-owner crashes plane in Arcady, land of truth and beauty.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-01
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The Glad Eye
1927-06-01
The Glad Eye
Overview: '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)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-01
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Knowing Men
1930-02-01
Knowing Men
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-01
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This Man Is Mine
1946-09-12
This Man Is Mine
Overview: One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-12
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Radio Parade
1933-10-01
Radio Parade
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-01
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The 'Feather' Bed: A Mrs. Feather Dilemma
1933-04-24
The 'Feather' Bed: A Mrs. Feather Dilemma
Overview: 'Mrs Feather's concern for her husband's influenza prevents him geeting the sleep he needs.' (British Film Institute)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-24
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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
1940-08-31
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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Medal for the General
1944-11-06
Medal for the General
Overview: A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-06
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Just like a Woman
1939-11-16
Just like a Woman
Overview: A group of private detectives working for a jeweler pursue a gang of thieves in Argentina.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-16
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Sailors Three
1940-12-14
Sailors Three
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-14
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Settled Out of Court
1925-10-01
Settled Out of Court
Overview: A husband's attempts to escape from a loveless marriage ends in tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-01
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Nell Gwyn
1934-08-01
Nell Gwyn
Overview: 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.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-01
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The Girl Who Forgot
1940-02-24
The Girl Who Forgot
Overview: 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...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-24
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Infatuation
1930-02-01
Infatuation
Overview: A youth falls for an ageing actress and discovers she is his mother.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-01
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Nine Till Six
1932-03-14
Nine Till Six
Overview: Two women of different social backgrounds work together in a dressmakers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-14
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The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
1950-01-31
The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
Overview: The 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.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-31
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The Turners of Prospect Road
1947-06-16
The Turners of Prospect Road
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-16
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Woman Hater
1948-10-13
Woman Hater
Overview: A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-13
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