Isabel Jeans
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. Other members of the cast were Pauline Collins, Daniel Massey, Helen Weir, Robert Eddison and Dame Flora Robson.
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Filmography
The Magic Christian
1969
as Dame Agnes Grand
Heavens Above!
1963
as Lady Despard
Victoria Regina
1961
as Mistress of the Robes
A Breath of Scandal
1960
as Princess Eugénie
Gigi
1958
as Aunt Alicia
It Happened in Rome
1957
as Cynthia
Elizabeth of Ladymead
1948
as Mother in 1903
Great Day
1945
as Lady Mott
Banana Ridge
1942
as Sue Long
Suspicion
1941
as Mrs. Newsham
Man About Town
1939
as Mme. Dubois
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939
as Caroline Brand
Breakdowns of 1938
1938
as Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hard to Get
1938
as Mrs. Henny Richards
Garden of the Moon
1938
as Mrs. Lornay
Youth Takes a Fling
1938
as Mrs. Merrivale
Secrets of an Actress
1938
as Miss Marian Plantagenet
Fools for Scandal
1938
as Lady Paula Malverton
Tovarich
1937
as Fermonde Dupont
The Crouching Beast
1935
as The Pellegrini
The Dictator
1935
as Von Eyben
- No poster
Rolling in Money
1934
as Duchess of Braceborough
- No poster
Sally Bishop
1932
as Dolly Durlacher
The Return of the Rat
1929
as Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron