Isabel Jeans

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Isabel Jeans (16 September 1891 – 4 September 1985) was an English stage and film actress. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isabel Jeans, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Birth Location London, England, UK
Born 1891-09-15
Died 1985-09-04

Movies

The Magic Christian as Dame Agnes Grand
1969
Heavens Above! as Lady Despard
1963
A Breath of Scandal as Princess Eugénie
1960
Gigi as Aunt Alicia
1958
It Happened in Rome as Cynthia
1957
Elizabeth of Ladymead as Mother in 1903
1948
Great Day as Lady Mott
1945
Banana Ridge as Sue Long
1942
Suspicion as Mrs. Newsham
1941
Man About Town as Mme. Dubois
1939
Good Girls Go to Paris as Caroline Brand
1939
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
1938
Tovarich as Fermonde Dupont
1937
The Crouching Beast as The Pellegrini
1935
The Dictator as Von Eyben
1935
Rolling in Money as Duchess of Braceborough
1934
Sally Bishop as Dolly Durlacher
1932
The Return of the Rat as Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
1929
1928
Easy Virtue as Larita Filton
1928
Downhill as Julia
1927
1926
The Rat as Zelie de Chaumet
1925
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