Isabel Jeans
Acting
1891-09-15 · London, 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.
Filmography(31)
tvLord Peter Wimsey
as Dowager Duchess · 1972 · 0.0
movieThe Magic Christian
as Dame Agnes Grand · 1969 · 5.8
movieHeavens Above!
as Lady Despard · 1963 · 6.6
movieVictoria Regina
as Mistress of the Robes · 1961 · 8.0
movieA Breath of Scandal
as Princess Eugénie · 1960 · 5.5
movieGigi
as Aunt Alicia · 1958 · 6.2
movieIt Happened in Rome
as Cynthia · 1957 · 5.8
movieElizabeth of Ladymead
as Mother in 1903 · 1948 · 8.0
movieGreat Day
as Lady Mott · 1945 · 7.4
movieBanana Ridge
as Sue Long · 1942 · 6.2
movieSuspicion
as Mrs. Newsham · 1941 · 7.1
movieMan About Town
as Mme. Dubois · 1939 · 4.5
movieGood Girls Go to Paris
as Caroline Brand · 1939 · 7.1
movieBreakdowns of 1938
as Paula (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1938 · 5.8
movieHard to Get
as Mrs. Henny Richards · 1938 · 6.3
movieGarden of the Moon
as Mrs. Lornay · 1938 · 6.8
movieYouth Takes a Fling
as Mrs. Merrivale · 1938 · 5.5
movieSecrets of an Actress
as Miss Marian Plantagenet · 1938 · 6.0
movieFools for Scandal
as Lady Paula Malverton · 1938 · 6.3
movieTovarich
as Fermonde Dupont · 1937 · 6.4
movieThe Crouching Beast
as The Pellegrini · 1935 · 9.0
movieThe Dictator
as Von Eyben · 1935 · 6.5
movieRolling in Money
as Duchess of Braceborough · 1934 · 10.0
movieSally Bishop
as Dolly Durlacher · 1932 · 7.0