Isabel Jeans

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Isabel Jeans

Acting September 15, 1891

London, England, UK

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…

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Suspicion

Suspicion

7.1 1941 Movie
Gigi

Gigi

6.2 1958 Movie
Downhill

Downhill

5.7 1927 Movie
Easy Virtue

Easy Virtue

5.3 1928 Movie
The Magic Christian

The Magic Christian

5.8 1969 Movie
Heavens Above!

Heavens Above!

6.6 1963 Movie
A Breath of Scandal

A Breath of Scandal

5.5 1960 Movie
Good Girls Go to Paris

Good Girls Go to Paris

7.1 1939 Movie
It Happened in Rome

It Happened in Rome

5.8 1957 Movie
Breakdowns of 1938

Breakdowns of 1938

5.8 1938 Movie
Tovarich

Tovarich

6.4 1937 Movie
Lord Peter Wimsey

Lord Peter Wimsey

1972 TV Show

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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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 1972
    Lord Peter Wimsey

    TV show Dowager Duchess

  2. 1969
    The Magic Christian

    Movie Dame Agnes Grand

  3. 1963
    Heavens Above!

    Movie Lady Despard

  4. 1961
    Victoria Regina

    Movie Mistress of the Robes

  5. 1960
    A Breath of Scandal

    Movie Princess Eugénie

  6. 1958
    Gigi

    Movie Aunt Alicia

  7. 1957
    It Happened in Rome

    Movie Cynthia

  8. 1948
    Elizabeth of Ladymead

    Movie Mother in 1903

  9. 1945
    Great Day

    Movie Lady Mott

  10. 1942
    Banana Ridge

    Movie Sue Long

  11. 1941
    Suspicion

    Movie Mrs. Newsham

  12. 1939
    Man About Town

    Movie Mme. Dubois

  13. 1939
    Good Girls Go to Paris

    Movie Caroline Brand

  14. 1938
    Breakdowns of 1938

    Movie Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)

  15. 1938
    Hard to Get

    Movie Mrs. Henny Richards

  16. 1938
    Garden of the Moon

    Movie Mrs. Lornay

More credits
  1. 1938
    Youth Takes a Fling

    Movie Mrs. Merrivale

  2. 1938
    Secrets of an Actress

    Movie Miss Marian Plantagenet

  3. 1938
    Fools for Scandal

    Movie Lady Paula Malverton

  4. 1937
    Tovarich

    Movie Fermonde Dupont

  5. 1935
    The Crouching Beast

    Movie The Pellegrini

  6. 1935
    The Dictator

    Movie Von Eyben

  7. 1934
    Rolling in Money

    Movie Duchess of Braceborough

  8. 1932
    Sally Bishop

    Movie Dolly Durlacher

  9. 1929
    The Return of the Rat

    Movie Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron

  10. 1928
    Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant

    Movie Pauline Alexander

  11. 1928
    Easy Virtue

    Movie Larita Filton

  12. 1927
    Downhill

    Movie Julia

  13. 1926
    The Triumph of the Rat

    Movie Zelie

  14. 1926
    Windsor Castle

    Movie

  15. 1925
    The Rat

    Movie Zelie de Chaumet