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Isabel Jeans

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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

Born

Sep 15, 1891

London, England, UK

Died

Sep 04, 1985

Known For

Acting

Movies

30 acting

0 crew

Popularity

0.7

Known For

Suspicion
Suspicion
1941 • as Mrs. Newsham
★ 7.1
Gigi
Gigi
1958 • as Aunt Alicia
★ 6.3
Victoria Regina
Victoria Regina
1961 • as Mistress of the Robes
★ 8.0
The Magic Christian
The Magic Christian
1969 • as Dame Agnes Grand
★ 5.8
It Happened in Rome
It Happened in Rome
1957 • as Cynthia
★ 5.8
A Breath of Scandal
A Breath of Scandal
1960 • as Princess Eugénie
★ 5.5
movie
★ 8.0
Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant
Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant
1928 • as Pauline Alexander
★ 9.0
Downhill
Downhill
1927 • as Julia
★ 5.7
Good Girls Go to Paris
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939 • as Caroline Brand
★ 7.1
Easy Virtue
Easy Virtue
1928 • as Larita Filton
★ 5.3
The Dictator
The Dictator
1935 • as Von Eyben
★ 6.5
Tovarich
Tovarich
1937 • as Fermonde Dupont
★ 6.4
Garden of the Moon
Garden of the Moon
1938 • as Mrs. Lornay
★ 6.7
Heavens Above!
Heavens Above!
1963 • as Lady Despard
★ 6.6
Hard to Get
Hard to Get
1938 • as Mrs. Henny Richards
★ 6.3
Secrets of an Actress
Secrets of an Actress
1938 • as Miss Marian Plantagenet
★ 6.0
Man About Town
Man About Town
1939 • as Mme. Dubois
★ 4.5
Fools for Scandal
Fools for Scandal
1938 • as Lady Paula Malverton
★ 6.3
Youth Takes a Fling
Youth Takes a Fling
1938 • as Mrs. Merrivale
★ 5.5
Breakdowns of 1938
Breakdowns of 1938
1938 • as Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
★ 5.8
The Return of the Rat
The Return of the Rat
1929 • as Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
★ 6.6
The Triumph of the Rat
The Triumph of the Rat
1926 • as Zelie
★ 6.6
The Crouching Beast
The Crouching Beast
1935 • as The Pellegrini
★ 9.0
Banana Ridge
Banana Ridge
1942 • as Sue Long
★ 6.2
movie
Sally Bishop
1932 • as Dolly Durlacher
★ 7.0
Great Day
Great Day
1945 • as Lady Mott
★ 7.4
Elizabeth of Ladymead
Elizabeth of Ladymead
1948 • as Mother in 1903
★ 8.0
The Rat
The Rat
1925 • as Zelie de Chaumet
★ 8.5
movie
Rolling in Money
1934 • as Duchess of Braceborough
★ 10.0