Isabel Jeans
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.
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- 1969 ·The Magic Christianas Dame Agnes Grand
- 1963 ·Heavens Above!as Lady Despard
- 1960 ·A Breath of Scandalas Princess Eugénie
- 1958 ·Gigias Aunt Alicia
- 1957 ·It Happened in Romeas Cynthia
- 1948 ·Elizabeth of Ladymeadas Mother in 1903
- 1945 ·Great Dayas Lady Mott
- 1942 ·Banana Ridgeas Sue Long
- 1941 ·Suspicionas Mrs. Newsham
- 1939 ·Man About Townas Mme. Dubois
- 1939 ·Good Girls Go to Parisas Caroline Brand
- 1938 ·Breakdowns of 1938as Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1938 ·Hard to Getas Mrs. Henny Richards
- 1938 ·Garden of the Moonas Mrs. Lornay
- 1938 ·Youth Takes a Flingas Mrs. Merrivale
- 1938 ·Secrets of an Actressas Miss Marian Plantagenet
- 1938 ·Fools for Scandalas Lady Paula Malverton
- 1937 ·Tovarichas Fermonde Dupont
- 1935 ·The Crouching Beastas The Pellegrini
- 1935 ·The Dictatoras Von Eyben
- 1934 ·Rolling in Moneyas Duchess of Braceborough
- 1932 ·Sally Bishopas Dolly Durlacher
- 1929 ·The Return of the Ratas Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
- 1928 ·Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenantas Pauline Alexander
- 1928 ·Easy Virtueas Larita Filton
- 1927 ·Downhillas Julia
- 1926 ·The Triumph of the Ratas Zelie
- 1926 ·Windsor Castleas
- 1925 ·The Ratas Zelie de Chaumet