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.
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1891-09-15 · London, England, UK
- Died
- 1985-09-04
Known for
- Suspicion (1941) — Mrs. Newsham
- Gigi (1958) — Aunt Alicia
- Downhill (1927) — Julia
- Easy Virtue (1928) — Larita Filton
- The Magic Christian (1969) — Dame Agnes Grand
- Heavens Above! (1963) — Lady Despard
- A Breath of Scandal (1960) — Princess Eugénie
- Good Girls Go to Paris (1939) — Caroline Brand
- It Happened in Rome (1957) — Cynthia
- Garden of the Moon (1938) — Mrs. Lornay
- Secrets of an Actress (1938) — Miss Marian Plantagenet
- Fools for Scandal (1938) — Lady Paula Malverton
- Great Day (1945) — Lady Mott
- Hard to Get (1938) — Mrs. Henny Richards
- Tovarich (1937) — Fermonde Dupont
- Man About Town (1939) — Mme. Dubois