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Isabel Jeans

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1891-09-15

Day of Death

1985-09-04

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Isabel Jeans

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 (30)

⭐ 5.7 Role: Dame Agnes Grand

The Magic Christian

1969
⭐ 6.6 Role: Lady Despard

Heavens Above!

1963
⭐ 8.0 Role: Mistress of the Robes

Victoria Regina

1961
⭐ 5.5 Role: Princess Eugénie

A Breath of Scandal

1960
⭐ 6.2 Role: Aunt Alicia

Gigi

1958
⭐ 5.8 Role: Cynthia

It Happened in Rome

1957
⭐ 8.0 Role: Mother in 1903

Elizabeth of Ladymead

1948
⭐ 7.4 Role: Lady Mott

Great Day

1945
⭐ 6.2 Role: Sue Long

Banana Ridge

1942
⭐ 7.1 Role: Mrs. Newsham

Suspicion

1941
⭐ 4.5 Role: Mme. Dubois

Man About Town

1939
⭐ 7.1 Role: Caroline Brand

Good Girls Go to Paris

1939
⭐ 5.8 Role: Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)

Breakdowns of 1938

1938
⭐ 6.3 Role: Mrs. Henny Richards

Hard to Get

1938
⭐ 6.8 Role: Mrs. Lornay

Garden of the Moon

1938