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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

30

Gender

Female

Birthday

1891-09-15

Day of Death

1985-09-04 (94 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Also Known As

Isabel Jeans

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.

Known For

Acting

Suspicion

1941

Suspicion

as

Mrs. Newsham

The Magic Christian

1969

The Magic Christian

as

Dame Agnes Grand

Easy Virtue

1928

Easy Virtue

as

Larita Filton

Tovarich

1937

Tovarich

as

Fermonde Dupont

Gigi

1958

Gigi

as

Aunt Alicia

A Breath of Scandal

1960

A Breath of Scandal

as

Princess Eugénie

Elizabeth of Ladymead

1948

Elizabeth of Ladymead

as

Mother in 1903

Secrets of an Actress

1938

Secrets of an Actress

as

Miss Marian Plantagenet

Fools for Scandal

1938

Fools for Scandal

as

Lady Paula Malverton

Great Day

1945

Great Day

as

Lady Mott

Rolling in Money

1934

Rolling in Money

as

Duchess of Braceborough

Man About Town

1939

Man About Town

as

Mme. Dubois

Hard to Get

1938

Hard to Get

as

Mrs. Henny Richards

Heavens Above!

1963

Heavens Above!

as

Lady Despard

The Rat

1925

The Rat

as

Zelie de Chaumet

Youth Takes a Fling

1938

Youth Takes a Fling

as

Mrs. Merrivale

Banana Ridge

1942

Banana Ridge

as

Sue Long

Garden of the Moon

1938

Garden of the Moon

as

Mrs. Lornay

It Happened in Rome

1957

It Happened in Rome

as

Cynthia

Good Girls Go to Paris

1939

Good Girls Go to Paris

as

Caroline Brand

The Dictator

1935

The Dictator

as

Von Eyben

The Return of the Rat

1929

The Return of the Rat

as

Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron

The Crouching Beast

1935

The Crouching Beast

as

The Pellegrini

Sally Bishop

1932

Sally Bishop

as

Dolly Durlacher

Breakdowns of 1938

1938

Breakdowns of 1938

as

Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)

Downhill

1927

Downhill

as

Julia

Lord Peter Wimsey

Lord Peter Wimsey

as

Dowager Duchess

Production

Crew

Directing