Isabel Jeans
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1891-09-15
Day of Death
1985-09-04 (93 years old)
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.
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Acting
(1969)
The Magic Christian
as Dame Agnes Grand
(1963)
Heavens Above!
as Lady Despard
(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)
Good Girls Go to Paris
as Caroline Brand
(1939)
Man About Town
as Mme. Dubois
(1938)
Secrets of an Actress
as Miss Marian Plantagenet
(1938)
Hard to Get
as Mrs. Henny Richards
(1938)
Breakdowns of 1938
as Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1938)
Garden of the Moon
as Mrs. Lornay
(1938)
Youth Takes a Fling
as Mrs. Merrivale
(1938)
Fools for Scandal
as Lady Paula Malverton
(1937)
Tovarich
as Fermonde Dupont
(1935)
The Dictator
as Von Eyben
(1935)
The Crouching Beast
as The Pellegrini
(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)
Easy Virtue
as Larita Filton
(1928)
Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant
as Pauline Alexander
(1927)
Downhill
as Julia
(1926)
The Triumph of the Rat
as Zelie
(1926)
(1925)
The Rat
as Zelie de Chaumet