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Isabel Jeans

Born September 15, 1891 in London, England, UKDied September 4, 198529 films

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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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Suspicion posterFirst watchSuspicion19417.1as Mrs. NewshamA sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts.View film

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Filmography

29 films as actor
  1. 1969The Magic ChristianDame Agnes Grand
  2. 1963Heavens Above!Lady Despard
  3. 1961Victoria ReginaMistress of the Robes
  4. 1960A Breath of ScandalPrincess Eugénie
  5. 1958GigiAunt Alicia
  6. 1957It Happened in RomeCynthia
  7. 1948Elizabeth of LadymeadMother in 1903
  8. 1945Great DayLady Mott
  9. 1942Banana RidgeSue Long
  10. 1941SuspicionMrs. Newsham
  11. 1939Man About TownMme. Dubois
  12. 1939Good Girls Go to ParisCaroline Brand
  13. 1938Hard to GetMrs. Henny Richards
  14. 1938Garden of the MoonMrs. Lornay
  15. 1938Youth Takes a FlingMrs. Merrivale
  16. 1938Secrets of an ActressMiss Marian Plantagenet
  17. 1938Fools for ScandalLady Paula Malverton
  18. 1937TovarichFermonde Dupont
  19. 1935The Crouching BeastThe Pellegrini
  20. 1935The DictatorVon Eyben
  21. 1934Rolling in MoneyDuchess of Braceborough
  22. 1932Sally BishopDolly Durlacher
  23. 1929The Return of the RatZélia de Chaumet Boucheron
  24. 1928Further Adventures of the Flag LieutenantPauline Alexander
  25. 1928Easy VirtueLarita Filton
  26. 1927DownhillJulia
  27. 1926The Triumph of the RatZelie
  28. 1926Windsor Castle
  29. 1925The RatZelie de Chaumet