Isabel Jewell
Acting • Born 1907-07-19 – Died 1972-04-05
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Isabel Jewell (July 19, 1907 – April 5, 1972) was an American actress most active in the 1930s and early 1940s. Some of her most famous films were Ceiling Zero, Marked Woman, A Tale of Two Cities, and Gone With the Wind. After years in theater stock companies, including an 87-week stint in Lincoln, Nebraska, she hit the big time after getting a part on Broadway in Up Pops the Devil (1930). She received glowing critical reviews for Blessed Event (1932) as well. Jewell's film debut came in Blessed Event (1932). She had been brought to Hollywood by Warner Brothers for the film version of Up Pops the Devil. Jewell gained other supporting roles, appearing in a variety of films in the early 1930s. She played stereotypical gangsters' women in such films as Manhattan Melodrama (1934) and Marked Woman (1937). She was well received playing against type, as the seamstress sentenced to death on the guillotine along with Sydney Carton (Ronald Colman in A Tale of Two Cities (1935). Her most significant role was as the prostitute Gloria Stone in Lost Horizon (1937). Jewell's films included Gone with the Wind (1939) (in the role of "that white trash, Emmy Slattery"), Northwest Passage (1940), High Sierra (1941), and the low-budget The Leopard Man (1943). By the end of the 1940s, her roles had reduced in significance to the degree that her performances were often uncredited, e.g. The Snake Pit. She performed in radio dramas in the 1950s, including This is Your FBI. In 1972, Jewell appeared opposite Edie Sedgwick in the film Ciao! Manhattan. Her final film was the B movie Sweet Kill (1973), the directorial debut of Curtis Hanson, a future Academy Award winner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isabel Jewell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
70 credits
Gone with the Wind
Movie • 1939
Emmy Slattery
Lost Horizon
Movie • 1937
Gloria Stone
The Seventh Victim
Movie • 1943
Frances Fallon
Marked Woman
Movie • 1937
Emmy Lou Eagan
I've Been Around
Movie • 1935
Sally Van Loan
Born to Kill
Movie • 1947
Laury Palmer
High Sierra
Movie • 1941
Blonde
A Tale of Two Cities
Movie • 1935
The Seamstress
Manhattan Melodrama
Movie • 1934
Annabelle
The Leopard Man
Movie • 1943
Maria the Fortune Teller
Man in the Attic
Movie • 1953
Katy
Ciao! Manhattan
Movie • 1973
Mummy
Blessed Event
Movie • 1932
Dorothy Lane
Advice to the Lovelorn
Movie • 1933
Rose
Bombshell
Movie • 1933
Nellie, Junior's Girlfriend
36 Hours to Kill
Movie • 1936
Jeanie Benson
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
Movie • 1943
Mary Phoebus
The Bishop's Wife
Movie • 1947
Hysterical Mother
Go West Young Man
Movie • 1936
Gladys
Counsellor at Law
Movie • 1933
Bessie Green
Evelyn Prentice
Movie • 1934
Judith Wilson
Ceiling Zero
Movie • 1936
Lou Clarke
Design for Living
Movie • 1933
Plunkett's Stenographer
The Man Who Lived Twice
Movie • 1936
Peggy Russell
The Casino Murder Case
Movie • 1935
Amelia Llewellyn
Marked Men
Movie • 1940
Linda Harkness
Small Town Girl
Movie • 1936
Emily 'Em' Brannan
Sweet Kill
Movie • 1972
Mrs. Cole
Irene
Movie • 1940
Jane McGee
Career Woman
Movie • 1936
Gracie Clay
Day of Reckoning
Movie • 1933
Kate Lovett
Bondage
Movie • 1933
Beulah
Here Comes the Groom
Movie • 1934
Angy
Michael O'Halloran
Movie • 1948
Mrs Laura Nelson
Beauty for Sale
Movie • 1933
Hortense
Babies for Sale
Movie • 1940
Edith Drake
Shadow of Doubt
Movie • 1935
Inez
The Crime of the Century
Movie • 1933
Bridge Player (uncredited)
The Merry Monahans
Movie • 1944
Rose
Swing It, Sailor!
Movie • 1938
Myrtle Montrose
The Crowd Roars
Movie • 1938
Mrs. Martin
Scatterbrain
Movie • 1940
Esther Harrington
Big Brown Eyes
Movie • 1936
Bessie Blair
She Had to Choose
Movie • 1934
Sally Bates
The Women in His Life
Movie • 1933
Catherine Watson
Danger! Women at Work
Movie • 1943
Marie
Belle Starr's Daughter
Movie • 1948
Belle Starr
Times Square Lady
Movie • 1935
Babe
Northwest Passage
Movie • 1940
Jennie Coit
Dancing Feet
Movie • 1936
Mabel Henry
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Movie • 1936
Lilli Eipper
Steppin' in Society
Movie • 1945
Jenny the Juke
Sensation Hunters
Movie • 1945
Mae
Love on Toast
Movie • 1937
Belle Huntley
The Leathernecks Have Landed
Movie • 1936
Brooklyn
Missing Daughters
Movie • 1939
Peggy
Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!
Movie • 1940
Gertie - Truck Stop Waitress
They Asked For It
Movie • 1939
Molly Herkimer
The New Cinema
Movie • 1968
Self
Little Men
Movie • 1940
Stella
Let’s Be Ritzy
Movie • 1934
Betty
Drum Beat
Movie • 1954
Lily White
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
Movie • 1934
For Beauty's Sake
Movie • 1941
Amy Devore
Badman's Territory
Movie • 1946
Belle Starr
Bernardine
Movie • 1957
Ruby McDuff
Mad Love
Movie • 1935
Marianne (scenes deleted)
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Madame Ahr
Lock-Up
TV • 1959
Mr. & Mrs. North
TV • 1952