Isabel Jeans
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 15, 1891
- Died
- September 4, 1985 (aged 93)
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
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.
Known For
Filmography
Lord Peter Wimsey
TV · as Dowager Duchess · 5 eps
The Magic Christian
Movie · as Dame Agnes Grand
Heavens Above!
Movie · as Lady Despard
Victoria Regina
Movie · as Mistress of the Robes
A Breath of Scandal
Movie · as Princess Eugénie
Gigi
Movie · as Aunt Alicia
It Happened in Rome
Movie · as Cynthia
Elizabeth of Ladymead
Movie · as Mother in 1903
Great Day
Movie · as Lady Mott
Banana Ridge
Movie · as Sue Long
Suspicion
Movie · as Mrs. Newsham
Man About Town
Movie · as Mme. Dubois
Good Girls Go to Paris
Movie · as Caroline Brand
Secrets of an Actress
Movie · as Miss Marian Plantagenet
Fools for Scandal
Movie · as Lady Paula Malverton
Hard to Get
Movie · as Mrs. Henny Richards
Youth Takes a Fling
Movie · as Mrs. Merrivale
Garden of the Moon
Movie · as Mrs. Lornay
Breakdowns of 1938
Movie · as Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tovarich
Movie · as Fermonde Dupont
The Dictator
Movie · as Von Eyben
The Crouching Beast
Movie · as The Pellegrini
Rolling in Money
Movie · as Duchess of Braceborough
Sally Bishop
Movie · as Dolly Durlacher
The Return of the Rat
Movie · as Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
Easy Virtue
Movie · as Larita Filton
Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant
Movie · as Pauline Alexander
Downhill
Movie · as Julia
The Triumph of the Rat
Movie · as Zelie
Windsor Castle
Movie
The Rat
Movie · as Zelie de Chaumet