Isabel Jeans

Birthday: 1891-09-15
Deathday: 1985-09-04
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned

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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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Credits

Year Title Character
1969-12-12 The Magic Christian Dame Agnes Grand
1963-05-20 Heavens Above! Lady Despard
1960-03-16 A Breath of Scandal Princess Eugénie
1958-05-15 Gigi Aunt Alicia
1957-04-08 It Happened in Rome Cynthia
1948-12-22 Elizabeth of Ladymead Mother in 1903
1945-07-09 Great Day Lady Mott
1942-04-20 Banana Ridge Sue Long
1941-11-14 Suspicion Mrs. Newsham
1939-06-29 Man About Town Mme. Dubois
1939-06-20 Good Girls Go to Paris Caroline Brand
1938-11-05 Hard to Get Mrs. Henny Richards
1938-09-23 Garden of the Moon Mrs. Lornay
1938-09-22 Youth Takes a Fling Mrs. Merrivale
1938-09-10 Secrets of an Actress Miss Marian Plantagenet
1938-04-16 Fools for Scandal Lady Paula Malverton
1937-12-25 Tovarich Fermonde Dupont
1935-08-29 The Crouching Beast The Pellegrini
1935-02-07 The Dictator Von Eyben
1934-08-20 Rolling in Money Duchess of Braceborough
1932-10-17 Sally Bishop Dolly Durlacher
1929-05-30 The Return of the Rat Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
1928-09-10 Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant Pauline Alexander
1928-04-01 Easy Virtue Larita Filton
1927-10-24 Downhill Julia
1926-03-21 The Triumph of the Rat Zelie
1926-01-01 Windsor Castle
1925-09-07 The Rat Zelie de Chaumet