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Birthday:
September 15, 1891
Place of Birth:
London, England, UK
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Isabel Jeans
Biography
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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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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | The Magic Christian | Dame Agnes Grand |
| 1963 | Heavens Above! | Lady Despard |
| 1960 | A Breath of Scandal | Princess Eugénie |
| 1958 | Gigi | Aunt Alicia |
| 1957 | It Happened in Rome | Cynthia |
| 1948 | Elizabeth of Ladymead | Mother in 1903 |
| 1945 | Great Day | Lady Mott |
| 1942 | Banana Ridge | Sue Long |
| 1941 | Suspicion | Mrs. Newsham |
| 1939 | Man About Town | Mme. Dubois |
| 1939 | Good Girls Go to Paris | Caroline Brand |
| 1938 | Secrets of an Actress | Miss Marian Plantagenet |
| 1938 | Fools for Scandal | Lady Paula Malverton |
| 1938 | Hard to Get | Mrs. Henny Richards |
| 1938 | Youth Takes a Fling | Mrs. Merrivale |
| 1938 | Garden of the Moon | Mrs. Lornay |
| 1938 | Breakdowns of 1938 | Paula (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Tovarich | Fermonde Dupont |
| 1935 | The Dictator | Von Eyben |
| 1935 | The Crouching Beast | The Pellegrini |
| 1934 | Rolling in Money | Duchess of Braceborough |
| 1932 | Sally Bishop | Dolly Durlacher |
| 1929 | The Return of the Rat | Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron |
| 1928 | Easy Virtue | Larita Filton |
| 1928 | Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant | Pauline Alexander |
| 1927 | Downhill | Julia |
| 1926 | The Triumph of the Rat | Zelie |
| 1926 | Windsor Castle | |
| 1925 | The Rat | Zelie de Chaumet |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Lord Peter Wimsey | Dowager Duchess |