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Isabel Jeans

15 Sep 1891Born
4 Sep 1985Died
93Age at death
31Credits

Biography

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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.

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Other members of the cast were Pauline Collins, Daniel Massey, Helen Weir, Robert Eddison and Dame Flora Robson.

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Known for

Filmography

  1. 1972Lord Peter WimseySeries: Dowager Duchess (5 episodes)
  2. 1969The Magic ChristianFilm: Dame Agnes Grand
  3. 1963Heavens Above!Film: Lady Despard
  4. 1961Victoria ReginaFilm: Mistress of the Robes
  5. 1960A Breath of ScandalFilm: Princess Eugénie
  6. 1958GigiFilm: Aunt Alicia
  7. 1957It Happened in RomeFilm: Cynthia
  8. 1948Elizabeth of LadymeadFilm: Mother in 1903
  9. 1945Great DayFilm: Lady Mott
  10. 1942Banana RidgeFilm: Sue Long
  11. 1941SuspicionFilm: Mrs. Newsham
  12. 1939Man About TownFilm: Mme. Dubois
  13. 1939Good Girls Go to ParisFilm: Caroline Brand
  14. 1938Breakdowns of 1938Film: Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
  15. 1938Hard to GetFilm: Mrs. Henny Richards
  16. 1938Garden of the MoonFilm: Mrs. Lornay
  17. 1938Youth Takes a FlingFilm: Mrs. Merrivale
  18. 1938Secrets of an ActressFilm: Miss Marian Plantagenet
  19. 1938Fools for ScandalFilm: Lady Paula Malverton
  20. 1937TovarichFilm: Fermonde Dupont
  21. 1935The Crouching BeastFilm: The Pellegrini
  22. 1935The DictatorFilm: Von Eyben
  23. 1934Rolling in MoneyFilm: Duchess of Braceborough
  24. 1932Sally BishopFilm: Dolly Durlacher
  25. 1929The Return of the RatFilm: Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
  26. 1928Further Adventures of the Flag LieutenantFilm: Pauline Alexander
  27. 1928Easy VirtueFilm: Larita Filton
  28. 1927DownhillFilm: Julia
  29. 1926The Triumph of the RatFilm: Zelie
  30. 1926Windsor CastleFilm
  31. 1925The RatFilm: Zelie de Chaumet

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