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
Mrs. Newsham
Suspicion
Dame Agnes Grand
The Magic Christian
Larita Filton
Easy Virtue
Fermonde Dupont
Tovarich
Aunt Alicia
Gigi
Princess Eugénie
A Breath of Scandal
Mother in 1903
Elizabeth of Ladymead
Pauline Alexander
Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant
Miss Marian Plantagenet
Secrets of an Actress
Lady Paula Malverton
Fools for Scandal
Lady Mott
Great Day
Duchess of Braceborough
Rolling in Money
Mme. Dubois
Man About Town
Mrs. Henny Richards
Hard to Get
Lady Despard
Heavens Above!
Zelie de Chaumet
The Rat
Zelie
The Triumph of the Rat
Mrs. Merrivale
Youth Takes a Fling
Sue Long
Banana Ridge
Mrs. Lornay
Garden of the Moon
Cynthia
Souvenir d'Italie
Caroline Brand
Good Girls Go to Paris
Windsor Castle
Von Eyben
The Dictator
Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
The Return of the Rat
The Pellegrini
The Crouching Beast
Dolly Durlacher
Sally Bishop
Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
Breakdowns of 1938
Julia
Downhill
Mistress of the Robes
Victoria Regina
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
30
Gender
Female
Birthday
1891-09-15
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also Known As