Isabel Jeans

Isabel Jeans

9/15/1891 – 9/4/1985London, 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.

Filmography (31 titles)

Lord Peter WimseyShow

Lord Peter Wimsey

Dowager Duchess · 1972

The Magic Christian5.8Movie

The Magic Christian

Dame Agnes Grand · 1969

Heavens Above!6.6Movie

Heavens Above!

Lady Despard · 1963

Victoria Regina8.0Movie

Victoria Regina

Mistress of the Robes · 1961

A Breath of Scandal5.5Movie

A Breath of Scandal

Princess Eugénie · 1960

Gigi6.2Movie

Gigi

Aunt Alicia · 1958

It Happened in Rome5.8Movie

It Happened in Rome

Cynthia · 1957

Elizabeth of Ladymead8.0Movie

Elizabeth of Ladymead

Mother in 1903 · 1948

Great Day7.4Movie

Great Day

Lady Mott · 1945

Banana Ridge6.2Movie

Banana Ridge

Sue Long · 1942

Suspicion7.1Movie

Suspicion

Mrs. Newsham · 1941

Man About Town4.5Movie

Man About Town

Mme. Dubois · 1939

Good Girls Go to Paris7.1Movie

Good Girls Go to Paris

Caroline Brand · 1939

Breakdowns of 19385.8Movie

Breakdowns of 1938

Paula (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1938

Hard to Get6.3Movie

Hard to Get

Mrs. Henny Richards · 1938

Garden of the Moon6.8Movie

Garden of the Moon

Mrs. Lornay · 1938

Youth Takes a Fling5.5Movie

Youth Takes a Fling

Mrs. Merrivale · 1938

Secrets of an Actress6.0Movie

Secrets of an Actress

Miss Marian Plantagenet · 1938

Fools for Scandal6.3Movie

Fools for Scandal

Lady Paula Malverton · 1938

Tovarich6.4Movie

Tovarich

Fermonde Dupont · 1937

The Crouching Beast9.0Movie

The Crouching Beast

The Pellegrini · 1935

The Dictator6.5Movie

The Dictator

Von Eyben · 1935

10.0Movie

Rolling in Money

Duchess of Braceborough · 1934

7.0Movie

Sally Bishop

Dolly Durlacher · 1932

The Return of the Rat6.6Movie

The Return of the Rat

Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron · 1929

Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant9.0Movie

Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant

Pauline Alexander · 1928

Easy Virtue5.3Movie

Easy Virtue

Larita Filton · 1928

Downhill5.8Movie

Downhill

Julia · 1927

The Triumph of the Rat6.6Movie

The Triumph of the Rat

Zelie · 1926

8.0Movie

Windsor Castle

1926