Isabel Jeans
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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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Acting
Movie
Suspicion
as Mrs. Newsham
1941
Movie
Gigi
as Aunt Alicia
1958
Movie
Downhill
as Julia
1927
Movie
Easy Virtue
as Larita Filton
1928
Movie
The Magic Christian
as Dame Agnes Grand
1969
Movie
Heavens Above!
as Lady Despard
1963
Movie
A Breath of Scandal
as Princess Eugénie
1960
Movie
Good Girls Go to Paris
as Caroline Brand
1939
Movie
It Happened in Rome
as Cynthia
1957
Movie
Secrets of an Actress
as Miss Marian Plantagenet
1938
Movie
Fools for Scandal
as Lady Paula Malverton
1938
Movie
Great Day
as Lady Mott
1945
Movie
Hard to Get
as Mrs. Henny Richards
1938
Movie
Garden of the Moon
as Mrs. Lornay
1938
Movie
Tovarich
as Fermonde Dupont
1937
Movie
Man About Town
as Mme. Dubois
1939
Movie
The Triumph of the Rat
as Zelie
1926
Movie
Banana Ridge
as Sue Long
1942
Movie
The Return of the Rat
as Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
1929
Movie
Breakdowns of 1938
as Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
1938
Movie
Elizabeth of Ladymead
as Mother in 1903
1948
Movie
The Rat
as Zelie de Chaumet
1925
Movie
Youth Takes a Fling
as Mrs. Merrivale
1938
Movie
The Dictator
as Von Eyben
1935