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Isabel Jeans
Actor
Born September 15, 1891Died September 4, 1985 (93 years)
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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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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
| 1972 | Clouds of Witness (TV Series) · as Dowager Duchess |
| 1969 | The Magic Christian · as Dame Agnes Grand |
| 1963 | Heavens Above! · as Lady Despard |
| 1960 | A Breath of Scandal · as Princess Eugénie |
| 1959 | The Third Man (TV Series) · as Dame Lavinia |
| 1958 | Gigi · as Aunt Alicia |
| 1957 | It Happened in Rome · as Cynthia |
| 1956 | Playhouse 90 (TV Series) · as Maude Lowder |
| 1955 | ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) · as Countess De Breville |
| 1950 | Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) · as Lady Elizabeth Mulhammer |
| 1948 | Elizabeth of Ladymead · as Mother In 1903 |
| 1945 | Great Day · as Lady Mott |
| 1941 | Suspicion · as Mrs. Newsham |
| 1939 | Man About Town · as Mme. Dubois |
| 1939 | Good Girls Go to Paris · as Caroline Brand |
| 1938 | Hard to Get · as Mrs. Henny Richards |
| 1938 | Garden of the Moon · as Mrs. Lornay |
| 1938 | Youth Takes a Fling · as Mrs. Merrivale |
| 1938 | Secrets of an Actress · as Miss Marian Plantagenet |
| 1938 | Fools for Scandal · as Lady Paula Malverton |
| 1937 | Tovarich · as Fermonde Dupont |
| 1935 | Loves of a Dictator · as Von Eyben |
| 1927 | Further Adventures of a Flag Officer · as Pauline Alexander |
| 1927 | |
| 1927 | Easy Virtue · as Larita Filton |
| 1926 | |
| 1925 | The Rat · as Zelie De Chaumet |
| 1921 | Tilly of Bloomsbury · as Sylvia Mainwaring |