Isabel Jeans
Acting
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 from the Wikipedia article Isabel Jeans, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography 31
Movies (30)
The Magic Christian1969Dame Agnes Grand
Heavens Above!1963Lady Despard
Victoria Regina1961Mistress of the Robes
A Breath of Scandal1960Princess Eugénie
Gigi1958Aunt Alicia
It Happened in Rome1957Cynthia
Elizabeth of Ladymead1948Mother in 1903
Great Day1945Lady Mott
Banana Ridge1942Sue Long
Suspicion1941Mrs. Newsham
Man About Town1939Mme. Dubois
Good Girls Go to Paris1939Caroline Brand
Breakdowns of 19381938Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hard to Get1938Mrs. Henny Richards
Garden of the Moon1938Mrs. Lornay
Youth Takes a Fling1938Mrs. Merrivale
Secrets of an Actress1938Miss Marian Plantagenet
Fools for Scandal1938Lady Paula Malverton
Tovarich1937Fermonde Dupont
The Crouching Beast1935The Pellegrini
The Dictator1935Von Eyben- Rolling in Money1934Duchess of Braceborough
- Sally Bishop1932Dolly Durlacher
The Return of the Rat1929Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant1928Pauline Alexander
Easy Virtue1928Larita Filton
Downhill1927Julia
The Triumph of the Rat1926Zelie- Windsor Castle1926
The Rat1925Zelie de Chaumet
Shows (1)
Lord Peter Wimsey1972Dowager Duchess