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Born1891-09-15
BirthplaceLondon, England, UK

Isabel Jeans

Acting

Biography

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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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Filmography

Acting (30)

1969
The Magic Christianas Dame Agnes Grand
5.8
1963
Heavens Above!as Lady Despard
6.6
1961
Victoria Reginaas Mistress of the Robes
8.0
1960
A Breath of Scandalas Princess Eugénie
5.5
1958
Gigias Aunt Alicia
6.2
1957
5.8
1948
Elizabeth of Ladymeadas Mother in 1903
8.0
1945
Great Dayas Lady Mott
7.4
1942
Banana Ridgeas Sue Long
6.2
1941
Suspicionas Mrs. Newsham
7.1
1939
Man About Townas Mme. Dubois
4.5
1939
Good Girls Go to Parisas Caroline Brand
7.1
1938
Breakdowns of 1938as Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
5.8
1938
Hard to Getas Mrs. Henny Richards
6.3
1938
Garden of the Moonas Mrs. Lornay
6.8
1938
Youth Takes a Flingas Mrs. Merrivale
5.5
1938
Secrets of an Actressas Miss Marian Plantagenet
6.0
1938
Fools for Scandalas Lady Paula Malverton
6.3
1937
Tovarichas Fermonde Dupont
6.4
1935
The Crouching Beastas The Pellegrini
9.0
1935
The Dictatoras Von Eyben
6.5
1934
Rolling in Moneyas Duchess of Braceborough
10.0
1932
Sally Bishopas Dolly Durlacher
7.0
1929
The Return of the Ratas Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
6.6
1928
Easy Virtueas Larita Filton
5.3
1927
Downhillas Julia
5.7
6.6
1925
The Ratas Zelie de Chaumet
8.5