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 from the Wikipedia article Isabel Jeans, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
All Movies (30)
- The Magic Christian1969 · as Dame Agnes Grand
- Heavens Above!1963 · as Lady Despard
- Victoria Regina1961 · as Mistress of the Robes
- A Breath of Scandal1960 · as Princess Eugénie
- Gigi1958 · as Aunt Alicia
- It Happened in Rome1957 · as Cynthia
- Elizabeth of Ladymead1948 · as Mother in 1903
- Great Day1945 · as Lady Mott
- Banana Ridge1942 · as Sue Long
- Suspicion1941 · as Mrs. Newsham
- Man About Town1939 · as Mme. Dubois
- Good Girls Go to Paris1939 · as Caroline Brand
- Breakdowns of 19381938 · as Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Hard to Get1938 · as Mrs. Henny Richards
- Garden of the Moon1938 · as Mrs. Lornay
- Youth Takes a Fling1938 · as Mrs. Merrivale
- Secrets of an Actress1938 · as Miss Marian Plantagenet
- Fools for Scandal1938 · as Lady Paula Malverton
- Tovarich1937 · as Fermonde Dupont
- The Crouching Beast1935 · as The Pellegrini
- The Dictator1935 · as Von Eyben
- Rolling in Money1934 · as Duchess of Braceborough
- Sally Bishop1932 · as Dolly Durlacher
- The Return of the Rat1929 · as Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
- Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant1928 · as Pauline Alexander
- Easy Virtue1928 · as Larita Filton
- Downhill1927 · as Julia
- The Triumph of the Rat1926 · as Zelie
- Windsor Castle1926
- The Rat1925 · as Zelie de Chaumet
All TV Shows (1)
- Lord Peter Wimsey1972 · as Dowager Duchess