Isabel Jeans
Actor
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
Gigi
as Aunt Alicia 1958
Downhill
as Julia 1927
Easy Virtue
as Larita Filton 1928
The Magic Christian
as Dame Agnes Grand 1969
Heavens Above!
as Lady Despard 1963
A Breath of Scandal
as Princess Eugénie 1960
Good Girls Go to Paris
as Caroline Brand 1939
It Happened in Rome
as Cynthia 1957
Secrets of an Actress
as Miss Marian Plantagenet 1938
Fools for Scandal
as Lady Paula Malverton 1938
Great Day
as Lady Mott 1945
Hard to Get
as Mrs. Henny Richards 1938
Garden of the Moon
as Mrs. Lornay 1938
Tovarich
as Fermonde Dupont 1937
Man About Town
as Mme. Dubois 1939
The Triumph of the Rat
as Zelie 1926