Isabel Jeans
Birthday
1891/09/15
Day of death
1985/09/04 (94 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also know as
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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...Read more
Acting
(1941) Suspicion
as Mrs. Newsham
(1969) The Magic Christian
as Dame Agnes Grand
(1928) Easy Virtue
as Larita Filton
(1937) Tovarich
as Fermonde Dupont
(1958) Gigi
as Aunt Alicia
(1960) A Breath of Scandal
as Princess Eugénie
(1948) Elizabeth of Ladymead
as Mother in 1903
(1928) Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant
as Pauline Alexander
(1938) Secrets of an Actress
as Miss Marian Plantagenet
(1938) Fools for Scandal
as Lady Paula Malverton
(1945) Great Day
as Lady Mott
(1934) Rolling in Money
as Duchess of Braceborough
(1939) Man About Town
as Mme. Dubois
(1938) Hard to Get
as Mrs. Henny Richards
(1963) Heavens Above!
as Lady Despard
(1925) The Rat
as Zelie de Chaumet
(1926) The Triumph of the Rat
as Zelie
(1938) Youth Takes a Fling
as Mrs. Merrivale
(1942) Banana Ridge
as Sue Long
(1938) Garden of the Moon
as Mrs. Lornay
(1957) It Happened in Rome
as Cynthia
(1939) Good Girls Go to Paris
as Caroline Brand
(1926) Windsor Castle
as ---
(1935) The Dictator
as Von Eyben
(1929) The Return of the Rat
as Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
(1935) The Crouching Beast
as The Pellegrini
(1932) Sally Bishop
as Dolly Durlacher
(1938) Breakdowns of 1938
as Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1927) Downhill
as Julia