Isabel Jeans
Age: 93 | From: London, England, UK
Person Details
Birthday: 1891-09-16 14:47:11
Death: 1985-09-04 14:47:11
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth: London, England, UK
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Movie Involvements: 14
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Suspicion
(1941) Mrs. Newsham
Downhill
(1927) Julia
Easy Virtue
(1928) Larita Filton
Secrets of an Actress
(1938) Miss Marian Plantagenet
It Happened in Rome
(1957) Cynthia
Great Day
(1945) Lady Mott
Elizabeth of Ladymead
(1948) Mother in 1903
The Triumph of the Rat
(1926) ZelieActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Dame Agnes Grand | |
| 1963 | Lady Despard | |
| 1960 | Princess Eugénie | |
| 1958 | Aunt Alicia | |
| 1957 | Cynthia | |
| 1948 | Mother in 1903 | |
| 1945 | Lady Mott | |
| 1942 | Sue Long | |
| 1941 | Mrs. Newsham | |
| 1939 | Mme. Dubois | |
| Caroline Brand | ||
| 1938 | Paula (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Mrs. Henny Richards | ||
| Mrs. Lornay | ||
| Mrs. Merrivale | ||
| Miss Marian Plantagenet | ||
| Lady Paula Malverton | ||
| 1937 | Fermonde Dupont | |
| 1935 | The Pellegrini | |
| Von Eyben | ||
| 1934 | Duchess of Braceborough | |
| 1932 | Dolly Durlacher | |
| 1929 | Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron | |
| 1928 | Pauline Alexander | |
| Larita Filton | ||
| 1927 | Julia | |
| 1926 | Zelie | |
| N/A | ||
| 1925 | Zelie de Chaumet | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
