Isabel Jeans

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1891-09-15 (94 years old)

Deathday

1985-09-04

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

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 fr...

Acting

1941

Suspicion

as Mrs. Newsham

1969

The Magic Christian

as Dame Agnes Grand

1928

Easy Virtue

as Larita Filton

1937

Tovarich

as Fermonde Dupont

1958

Gigi

as Aunt Alicia

1960

A Breath of Scandal

as Princess Eugénie

1948

Elizabeth of Ladymead

as Mother in 1903

1938

Secrets of an Actress

as Miss Marian Plantagenet

1938

Fools for Scandal

as Lady Paula Malverton

1945

Great Day

as Lady Mott

1934

Rolling in Money

as Duchess of Braceborough

1939

Man About Town

as Mme. Dubois

1938

Hard to Get

as Mrs. Henny Richards

1963

Heavens Above!

as Lady Despard

1925

The Rat

as Zelie de Chaumet

1938

Youth Takes a Fling

as Mrs. Merrivale

1942

Banana Ridge

as Sue Long

1938

Garden of the Moon

as Mrs. Lornay

1957

1939

Good Girls Go to Paris

as Caroline Brand

1935

The Dictator

as Von Eyben

1929

The Return of the Rat

as Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron

1935

The Crouching Beast

as The Pellegrini

1932

Sally Bishop

as Dolly Durlacher

1938

Breakdowns of 1938

as Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)

1927

Downhill

as Julia

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