Isabel Jeans
Acting
Born: 1891-09-15 in London, England, UK
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
Suspicion
Mrs. Newsham
Gigi
Aunt Alicia
The Magic Christian
Dame Agnes Grand
Lord Peter Wimsey
Dowager Duchess
Victoria Regina
Mistress of the Robes
It Happened in Rome
Cynthia
Windsor Castle
Heavens Above!
Lady Despard
Hard to Get
Mrs. Henny Richards
A Breath of Scandal
Princess Eugénie
Good Girls Go to Paris
Caroline Brand
Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant
Pauline Alexander
Easy Virtue
Larita Filton
Downhill
Julia
Great Day
Lady Mott
Tovarich
Fermonde Dupont
The Crouching Beast
The Pellegrini
Breakdowns of 1938
Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Dictator
Von Eyben
Secrets of an Actress
Miss Marian Plantagenet
The Return of the Rat
Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
Man About Town
Mme. Dubois
Fools for Scandal
Lady Paula Malverton
The Rat
Zelie de Chaumet
Garden of the Moon
Mrs. Lornay
Elizabeth of Ladymead
Mother in 1903
The Triumph of the Rat
Zelie
Youth Takes a Fling
Mrs. Merrivale
Banana Ridge
Sue Long