Acting
Isabel Jeans
EN, IT cinema · 30 credits
Born
15 September 1891
Died
4 September 1985 (aged 93)
Birthplace
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.
Known for
Filmography
The Magic Christian
as Dame Agnes Grand
Heavens Above!
as Lady Despard
Victoria Regina
as Mistress of the Robes
A Breath of Scandal
as Princess Eugénie
Gigi
as Aunt Alicia
It Happened in Rome
as Cynthia
Elizabeth of Ladymead
as Mother in 1903
Great Day
as Lady Mott
Banana Ridge
as Sue Long
Suspicion
as Mrs. Newsham
Man About Town
as Mme. Dubois
Good Girls Go to Paris
as Caroline Brand
Secrets of an Actress
as Miss Marian Plantagenet
Fools for Scandal
as Lady Paula Malverton
Hard to Get
as Mrs. Henny Richards
Youth Takes a Fling
as Mrs. Merrivale
Garden of the Moon
as Mrs. Lornay
Breakdowns of 1938
as Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tovarich
as Fermonde Dupont
The Dictator
as Von Eyben
The Crouching Beast
as The Pellegrini
Rolling in Money
1934
Rolling in Money
as Duchess of Braceborough
Sally Bishop
1932
Sally Bishop
as Dolly Durlacher
The Return of the Rat
as Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
Easy Virtue
as Larita Filton
Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant
as Pauline Alexander
Downhill
as Julia
The Rat
as Zelie de Chaumet