Isabel Jeans
Acting • Born 1891-09-15 – Died 1985-09-04
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.
Filmography
31 credits
Suspicion
Movie • 1941
Mrs. Newsham
The Magic Christian
Movie • 1969
Dame Agnes Grand
Easy Virtue
Movie • 1928
Larita Filton
Tovarich
Movie • 1937
Fermonde Dupont
Gigi
Movie • 1958
Aunt Alicia
A Breath of Scandal
Movie • 1960
Princess Eugénie
Elizabeth of Ladymead
Movie • 1948
Mother in 1903
Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant
Movie • 1928
Pauline Alexander
Secrets of an Actress
Movie • 1938
Miss Marian Plantagenet
Fools for Scandal
Movie • 1938
Lady Paula Malverton
Great Day
Movie • 1945
Lady Mott
Rolling in Money
Movie • 1934
Duchess of Braceborough
Man About Town
Movie • 1939
Mme. Dubois
Hard to Get
Movie • 1938
Mrs. Henny Richards
Heavens Above!
Movie • 1963
Lady Despard
The Rat
Movie • 1925
Zelie de Chaumet
The Triumph of the Rat
Movie • 1926
Zelie
Youth Takes a Fling
Movie • 1938
Mrs. Merrivale
Banana Ridge
Movie • 1942
Sue Long
Garden of the Moon
Movie • 1938
Mrs. Lornay
It Happened in Rome
Movie • 1957
Cynthia
Good Girls Go to Paris
Movie • 1939
Caroline Brand
Windsor Castle
Movie • 1926
The Dictator
Movie • 1935
Von Eyben
The Return of the Rat
Movie • 1929
Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
The Crouching Beast
Movie • 1935
The Pellegrini
Sally Bishop
Movie • 1932
Dolly Durlacher
Breakdowns of 1938
Movie • 1938
Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
Downhill
Movie • 1927
Julia
Victoria Regina
Movie • 1961
Mistress of the Robes
Lord Peter Wimsey
TV • 1972
Dowager Duchess