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Isabel Jeans

Isabel Jeans

Acting

September 15, 1891 — September 4, 1985London, England, UK

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

The Magic Christian1969

The Magic Christian

Dame Agnes Grand

Heavens Above!1963

Heavens Above!

Lady Despard

Victoria Regina1961

Victoria Regina

Mistress of the Robes

A Breath of Scandal1960

A Breath of Scandal

Princess Eugénie

Gigi1958

Gigi

Aunt Alicia

It Happened in Rome1957

It Happened in Rome

Cynthia

Elizabeth of Ladymead1948

Elizabeth of Ladymead

Mother in 1903

Great Day1945

Great Day

Lady Mott

Banana Ridge1942

Banana Ridge

Sue Long

Suspicion1941

Suspicion

Mrs. Newsham

Man About Town1939

Man About Town

Mme. Dubois

Good Girls Go to Paris1939

Good Girls Go to Paris

Caroline Brand

Secrets of an Actress1938

Secrets of an Actress

Miss Marian Plantagenet

Fools for Scandal1938

Fools for Scandal

Lady Paula Malverton

Hard to Get1938

Hard to Get

Mrs. Henny Richards

Youth Takes a Fling1938

Youth Takes a Fling

Mrs. Merrivale

Garden of the Moon1938

Garden of the Moon

Mrs. Lornay

Breakdowns of 19381938

Breakdowns of 1938

Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)

Tovarich1937

Tovarich

Fermonde Dupont

The Dictator1935

The Dictator

Von Eyben

The Crouching Beast1935

The Crouching Beast

The Pellegrini

The Return of the Rat1929

The Return of the Rat

Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron

Easy Virtue1928

Easy Virtue

Larita Filton

Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant1928

Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant

Pauline Alexander