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Isabel Jeans

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.


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Born:
Sep 16, 1891 In London, England, UK
Movie/TV Credits:
27
First Appeared:
In the movie The Rat 1925-09-07
Latest Project:
Movie The Magic Christian 1969-12-12
Known For
Poster of The Crouching Beast
Poster of The Return of the Rat
Poster of The Triumph of the Rat
Poster of The Rat
Filmography
Movie The Magic Christian Dame Agnes Grand 1969-12-12
Movie Heavens Above! Lady Despard 1963-05-20
Movie A Breath of Scandal Princess Eugénie 1960-03-16
Movie Gigi Aunt Alicia 1958-05-15
Movie It Happened in Rome Cynthia 1957-04-08
Movie Elizabeth of Ladymead Mother in 1903 1948-12-22
Movie Great Day Lady Mott 1945-07-09
Movie Banana Ridge Sue Long 1942-04-20
Movie Suspicion Mrs. Newsham 1941-11-14
Movie Good Girls Go to Paris Caroline Brand 1939-06-20
Movie Man About Town Mme. Dubois 1939-06-29
Movie Youth Takes a Fling Mrs. Merrivale 1938-09-22
Movie Fools for Scandal Lady Paula Malverton 1938-04-16
Movie Secrets of an Actress Miss Marian Plantagenet 1938-09-10
Movie Garden of the Moon Mrs. Lornay 1938-09-23
Movie Breakdowns of 1938 Paula (archive footage) (uncredited) 1938-12-31
Movie Hard to Get Mrs. Henny Richards 1938-11-05
Movie Tovarich Fermonde Dupont 1937-12-25
Movie The Dictator Von Eyben 1935-02-07
Movie The Crouching Beast The Pellegrini 1935-08-29
Movie Rolling in Money Duchess of Braceborough 1934-08-20
Movie Sally Bishop Dolly Durlacher 1932-10-17
Movie The Return of the Rat Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron 1929-05-30
Movie Easy Virtue Larita Filton 1928-03-05
Movie Downhill Julia 1927-10-24
Movie The Triumph of the Rat Zelie 1926-03-21
Movie The Rat Zelie de Chaumet 1925-09-07