Isabel Jeans
Actor
- Born
- September 15, 1891 · London, England, UK
- Died
- September 4, 1985 (age 93)
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Isabel Jeans (16 September 1891 – 4 September 1985) was an English stage and film actress.
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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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Known for
Suspicion
November 14, 1941
Gigi
May 15, 1958
Downhill
October 24, 1927
Easy Virtue
April 1, 1928
The Magic Christian
December 12, 1969
Heavens Above!
May 20, 1963
A Breath of Scandal
March 16, 1960
Good Girls Go to Paris
June 20, 1939
It Happened in Rome
April 8, 1957
Secrets of an Actress
September 10, 1938
Fools for Scandal
April 16, 1938
Great Day
July 9, 1945
Acting30
- 1969The Magic Christian as Dame Agnes Grand
- 1963Heavens Above! as Lady Despard
- 1961Victoria Regina as Mistress of the Robes
- 1960A Breath of Scandal as Princess Eugénie
- 1958Gigi as Aunt Alicia
- 1957It Happened in Rome as Cynthia
- 1948Elizabeth of Ladymead as Mother in 1903
- 1945Great Day as Lady Mott
- 1942Banana Ridge as Sue Long
- 1941Suspicion