Isabel Jeans
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 15, 1891
- Died
- September 4, 1985
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
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
The Magic Christian 1969
as Dame Agnes Grand
Heavens Above! 1963
as Lady Despard
Victoria Regina 1961
as Mistress of the Robes
A Breath of Scandal 1960
as Princess Eugénie
Gigi 1958
as Aunt Alicia
It Happened in Rome 1957
as Cynthia
Elizabeth of Ladymead 1948
as Mother in 1903
Great Day 1945
as Lady Mott
Banana Ridge 1942
as Sue Long
Suspicion 1941
as Mrs. Newsham
Man About Town 1939
as Mme. Dubois
Good Girls Go to Paris 1939
as Caroline Brand
Breakdowns of 1938 1938
as Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hard to Get 1938
as Mrs. Henny Richards
Garden of the Moon 1938
as Mrs. Lornay
Youth Takes a Fling 1938
as Mrs. Merrivale
Secrets of an Actress 1938
as Miss Marian Plantagenet
Fools for Scandal 1938
as Lady Paula Malverton
Tovarich 1937
as Fermonde Dupont
The Crouching Beast 1935
as The Pellegrini
The Dictator 1935
as Von Eyben
- Rolling in Money
Rolling in Money 1934
as Duchess of Braceborough
- Sally Bishop
Sally Bishop 1932
as Dolly Durlacher
The Return of the Rat 1929
as Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant 1928
as Pauline Alexander
Easy Virtue 1928
as Larita Filton
Downhill 1927
as Julia
The Triumph of the Rat 1926
as Zelie
- Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle 1926
Actor
The Rat 1925
as Zelie de Chaumet
Credits from TMDB.