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.
Known For
Credits
- 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 · Man About Town as Mme. Dubois
- 1939 · Good Girls Go to Paris as Caroline Brand
- 1938 · Breakdowns of 1938 as Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1938 · Hard to Get as Mrs. Henny Richards
- 1938 · Garden of the Moon as Mrs. Lornay
- 1938 · Youth Takes a Fling as Mrs. Merrivale
- 1938 · Secrets of an Actress as Miss Marian Plantagenet
- 1938 · Fools for Scandal as Lady Paula Malverton
- 1937 · Tovarich as Fermonde Dupont
- 1935 · The Crouching Beast as The Pellegrini
- 1935 · The Dictator as Von Eyben
- 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 · Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant as Pauline Alexander
- 1928 · Easy Virtue as Larita Filton
- 1927 · Downhill as Julia
- 1926 · The Triumph of the Rat as Zelie
- 1926 · Windsor Castle as
- 1925 · The Rat as Zelie de Chaumet