Isabel Jeans
Born: 1891-09-15 in London, England, UK
Died: 1985-09-04
Known For: Acting
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
1972
- Lord Peter Wimsey as Dowager Duchess
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
- Man About Town as Mme. Dubois
1938
- Fools for Scandal as Lady Paula Malverton
- Breakdowns of 1938 as Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Garden of the Moon as Mrs. Lornay
- Youth Takes a Fling as Mrs. Merrivale
- Secrets of an Actress as Miss Marian Plantagenet
- Hard to Get as Mrs. Henny Richards
1937
- Tovarich as Fermonde Dupont
1935
- The Dictator as Von Eyben
- 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
- Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant as Pauline Alexander
1927
- Downhill as Julia
1926
- Windsor Castle
- The Triumph of the Rat as Zelie
1925
- The Rat as Zelie de Chaumet