Isabel Jeans

Isabel Jeans

  • Birthday: 1891-09-15
  • Deathday: 1985-09-04
  • Place of birth: London, England, UK

Biography

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.

Filmography

Easy Virtue

1928

As Larita Filton

Rolling in Money

1934

As Duchess of Braceborough

The Return of the Rat

1929

As Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron

The Magic Christian

1969

As Dame Agnes Grand

Elizabeth of Ladymead

1948

As Mother in 1903

The Rat

1925

As Zelie de Chaumet

Heavens Above!

1963

As Lady Despard

Banana Ridge

1942

As Sue Long

Sally Bishop

1932

As Dolly Durlacher

Great Day

1945

As Lady Mott

The Crouching Beast

1935

As The Pellegrini

A Breath of Scandal

1960

As Princess Eugénie

Secrets of an Actress

1938

As Miss Marian Plantagenet

Fools for Scandal

1938

As Lady Paula Malverton

Youth Takes a Fling

1938

As Mrs. Merrivale

Suspicion

1941

As Mrs. Newsham

Tovarich

1937

As Fermonde Dupont

Man About Town

1939

As Mme. Dubois

Garden of the Moon

1938

As Mrs. Lornay

Good Girls Go to Paris

1939

As Caroline Brand

The Dictator

1935

As Von Eyben

Gigi

1958

As Aunt Alicia

Hard to Get

1938

As Mrs. Henny Richards

It Happened in Rome

1957

As Cynthia

Downhill

1927

As Julia

Breakdowns of 1938

1938

As Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)

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