About

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29
Birthday:
1891-09-15
Place of birth:
London, England, UK
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Isabel Jeans

Overview

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.

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Known for

Acting
1969 The Magic Christian Actor Dame Agnes Grand 58
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1963 Heavens Above! Actor Lady Despard 59
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1960 A Breath of Scandal Actor Princess Eugénie 58
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1958 Gigi Actor Aunt Alicia 60
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1957 It Happened in Rome Actor Cynthia 58
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1948 Elizabeth of Ladymead Actor Mother in 1903 59
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1945 Great Day Actor Lady Mott 59
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1942 Banana Ridge Actor Sue Long 59
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1941 Suspicion Actor Mrs. Newsham 66
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1939 Man About Town Actor Mme. Dubois 58
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1939 Good Girls Go to Paris Actor Caroline Brand 59
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1938 Breakdowns of 1938 Actor Paula (archive footage) (uncredited) 59
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1938 Hard to Get Actor Mrs. Henny Richards 59
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1938 Garden of the Moon Actor Mrs. Lornay 59
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1938 Youth Takes a Fling Actor Mrs. Merrivale 58
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1938 Secrets of an Actress Actor Miss Marian Plantagenet 59
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1938 Fools for Scandal Actor Lady Paula Malverton 59
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1937 Tovarich Actor Fermonde Dupont 58
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1935 The Crouching Beast Actor The Pellegrini N/A
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1935 The Dictator Actor Von Eyben 59
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1934 Rolling in Money Actor Duchess of Braceborough N/A
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1932 Sally Bishop Actor Dolly Durlacher N/A
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1929 The Return of the Rat Actor Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron 58
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1928 Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant Actor Pauline Alexander N/A
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1928 Easy Virtue Actor Larita Filton 57
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1927 Downhill Actor Julia 58
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1926 The Triumph of the Rat Actor Zelie 58
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1926 Windsor Castle Actor N/A
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1925 The Rat Actor Zelie de Chaumet N/A
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