Isabel Jeans
30 movies · 1 TV show
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Sep 15, 1891
- Died
- Sep 4, 1985 (age 93)
- Place of birth
- London, England, UK
Biography
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Isabel Jeans (16 September 1891 – 4 September 1985) was an English stage and film actress.
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She played a couple of major roles in two Alfred Hitchcock silent films, Downhill (1927) and Easy Virtue (1928), before playing a number of grande dames in Hollywood films, such as Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941) and Gigi (1958). In 1968 she played Lady Bracknell in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest at London's Theatre Royal Haymarket, which ran for nine months to packed houses. Other members of the cast were Pauline Collins, Daniel Massey, Helen Weir, Robert Eddison and Dame Flora Robson.
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Isabel Jeans: movies and TV shows
Acting (31)
- 1972
- 1969 The Magic Christian
as Dame Agnes Grand
- 1963 Heavens Above!
as Lady Despard
- 1961 Victoria Regina
as Mistress of the Robes
- 1960 A Breath of Scandal
as Princess Eugénie
- 1958 Gigi
as Aunt Alicia
- 1957 It Happened in Rome
as Cynthia
- 1948 Elizabeth of Ladymead
as Mother in 1903
- 1945 Great Day
as Lady Mott
- 1942 Banana Ridge
as Sue Long
- 1941 Suspicion
as Mrs. Newsham
- 1939 Man About Town
as Mme. Dubois
- 1939 Good Girls Go to Paris
as Caroline Brand
- 1938 Breakdowns of 1938
as Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1938 Hard to Get
as Mrs. Henny Richards
- 1938 Garden of the Moon
as Mrs. Lornay
- 1938 Youth Takes a Fling
as Mrs. Merrivale
- 1938 Secrets of an Actress
as Miss Marian Plantagenet
- 1938 Fools for Scandal
as Lady Paula Malverton
- 1937 Tovarich
as Fermonde Dupont
- 1935 The Crouching Beast
as The Pellegrini
- 1935 The Dictator
as Von Eyben
- 1934 Rolling in Money
as Duchess of Braceborough
- 1932 Sally Bishop
as Dolly Durlacher
- 1929 The Return of the Rat
as Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
- 1928 Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant
as Pauline Alexander
- 1928 Easy Virtue
as Larita Filton
- 1927 Downhill
as Julia
- 1926 The Triumph of the Rat
as Zelie
- 1926
- 1925 The Rat
as Zelie de Chaumet