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Jeanne de Casalis (22 May 1897 – 19 August 1966) was an African-born British actress of stage, radio, and film. Born in Basutoland as Casalis de Pury, she was educated in France - where her father owned one of the largest corset retailers, Charneaux - and began her career in music before working in London. She appeared on stage in The Mask of Virtue with Vivien Leigh (1935) and in the Agatha Christie mystery, 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,... MORE

Jeanne de Casalis (22 May 1897 – 19 August 1966) was an African-born British actress of stage, radio, and film. Born in Basutoland as Casalis de Pury, she was educated in France - where her father owned one of the largest corset retailers, Charneaux - and began her career in music before working in London. She appeared on stage in The Mask of Virtue with Vivien Leigh (1935) and in the Agatha Christie mystery, 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, aged 69. LESS