Isabel Jeans
Acting
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
1969The Magic Christian
Dame Agnes Grand
1963Heavens Above!
Lady Despard
1961Victoria Regina
Mistress of the Robes
1960A Breath of Scandal
Princess Eugénie
1958Gigi
Aunt Alicia
1957It Happened in Rome
Cynthia
1948Elizabeth of Ladymead
Mother in 1903
1945Great Day
Lady Mott
1942Banana Ridge
Sue Long
1941Suspicion
Mrs. Newsham
1939Man About Town
Mme. Dubois
1939Good Girls Go to Paris
Caroline Brand
1938Secrets of an Actress
Miss Marian Plantagenet
1938Fools for Scandal
Lady Paula Malverton
1938Hard to Get
Mrs. Henny Richards
1938Youth Takes a Fling
Mrs. Merrivale
1938Garden of the Moon
Mrs. Lornay
1938Breakdowns of 1938
Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
1937Tovarich
Fermonde Dupont
1935The Dictator
Von Eyben
1935The Crouching Beast
The Pellegrini
1929The Return of the Rat
Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
1928Easy Virtue
Larita Filton
1928Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant
Pauline Alexander