Belle Chrystall was a British actress who appeared in a number of leading roles in British films during the 1930s. She was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1910. She came to London

London

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 and after appearing on stage was given a minor part in a film A Warm Corner

A Warm Corner

A Warm Corner is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Victor Saville and starring Leslie Henson, Heather Thatcher and Austin Melford. It was based on a successful play by Franz Arnold...

, directed by Victor Saville

Victor Saville

Victor Saville was an English film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed 39 films between 1927 and 1954...

 but she was given no more work after that. The filming of Hindle Wakes

Hindle Wakes (1931 film)

Hindle Wakes is a 1931 British film drama, directed by Victor Saville for Gainsborough Pictures and starring Belle Chrystall and John Stuart. The film is adapted from Stanley Houghton's controversial 1912 stage play of the same name, which had previously been filmed twice as a silent in 1918 and...

led her to apply for the part of Jenny Hawthorne which led her to become an instant success. She made her last film in 1940.

Selected filmography

• A Warm Corner
  A Warm Corner
  A Warm Corner is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Victor Saville and starring Leslie Henson, Heather Thatcher and Austin Melford. It was based on a successful play by Franz Arnold...
  
  (1930)
• Hindle Wakes
  Hindle Wakes (1931 film)
  Hindle Wakes is a 1931 British film drama, directed by Victor Saville for Gainsborough Pictures and starring Belle Chrystall and John Stuart. The film is adapted from Stanley Houghton's controversial 1912 stage play of the same name, which had previously been filmed twice as a silent in 1918 and...
  
  (1931)
• Hobson's Choice
  Hobson's Choice (1931 film)
  Hobson's Choice is a 1931 British comedy drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring James Harcourt, Viola Lyel, Frank Pettingell and Herbert Lomas. A coarse bootshop owner is outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler...
  
  (1931)
• The Frightened Lady (1932)
• Friday the Thirteenth
  Friday the Thirteenth (1933 film)
  Friday the Thirteenth is a 1933 British drama film directed by Victor Saville and starring Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale and Muriel Aked. The film depicts the lives of several passengers in the hours before they are involved in a bus crash.-Cast:...
  
  (1933)
• The Girl in the Flat
  The Girl in the Flat
  The Girl in the Flat is a 1934 British crime film directed by Redd Davis and starring Stewart Rome, Belle Chrystall, Vera Bogetti and Noel Shannon...
  
  (1934)
• The Scotland Yard Mystery
  The Scotland Yard Mystery
  The Scotland Yard Mystery is a 1934 British crime film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Gerald du Maurier, George Curzon, Grete Natzler, Belle Chrystall and Wally Patch...
  
  (1934)
• The Edge of the World
  The Edge of the World
  The Edge of the World was the first major project by British filmmaker Michael Powell.-Plot:The film is the story of the de-population of one of the isolated, outer islands of Scotland as, one by one, the younger generation leaves for the greater opportunities offered by the mainland, making it...
  
  (1937)
• Anything to Declare?
  Anything to Declare?
  Anything to Declare? is a 1938 British crime thriller film directed by Redd Davis and starring John Loder, Noel Madison and Belle Chrystall. A new gas formula that can be used as a deadly weapon invented by a pioneering British scientist draws the interest of a shadowy peace movement, which masks a...
  
  (1938)
• Yellow Sands
  Yellow Sands (film)
  Yellow Sands is a 1938 British comedy drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Marie Tempest, Belle Chrystall, Wilfrid Lawson and Robert Newton. A wealthy dying woman's relatives gather, unaware that they have all been cut out of the will...
  
  (1938)
• Poison Pen
  Poison Pen (film)
  Poison Pen is a 1939 British psychological drama, directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Flora Robson, Reginald Tate and Ann Todd. The film is an adaptation of a novel by Welsh author Richard Llewellyn...
  
  (1939)
• The House of the Arrow (1940)