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Isabel Jewell
Actor
Died April 5, 1972 (64 years)
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Isabel Jewell (July 19, 1907 – April 5, 1972) was an American actress most active in the 1930s and early 1940s. Some of her most famous films were Ceiling Zero, Marked Woman, A Tale of Two Cities, and Gone With the Wind. After years in theater stock companies, including an 87-week stint in Lincoln, Nebraska, she hit the big time after getting a part on Broadway in Up Pops the Devil (1930). She received glowing critical reviews for Blessed Event (1932) as well.
Jewell's film debut came in Blessed Event (1932). She had been brought to Hollywood by Warner Brothers for the film version of Up Pops the Devil. Jewell gained other supporting roles, appearing in a variety of films in the early 1930s. She played stereotypical gangsters' women in such films as Manhattan Melodrama (1934) and Marked Woman (1937). She was well received playing against type, as the seamstress sentenced to death on the guillotine along with Sydney Carton (Ronald Colman in A Tale of Two Cities (1935). Her most significant role was as the prostitute Gloria Stone in Lost Horizon (1937). Jewell's films included Gone with the Wind (1939) (in the role of "that white trash, Emmy Slattery"), Northwest Passage (1940), High Sierra (1941), and the low-budget The Leopard Man (1943).
By the end of the 1940s, her roles had reduced in significance to the degree that her performances were often uncredited, e.g. The Snake Pit. She performed in radio dramas in the 1950s, including This is Your FBI.
In 1972, Jewell appeared opposite Edie Sedgwick in the film Ciao! Manhattan. Her final film was the B movie Sweet Kill (1973), the directorial debut of Curtis Hanson, a future Academy Award winner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isabel Jewell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
| 1972 | Sweet Kill · as Mrs. Cole |
| 1972 | Ciao Manhattan · as Mummy |
| 1963 | Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) · as Mrs. Lyons |
| 1959 | Lock-Up (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1959 | The Untouchables (TV Series) · as Sophie |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Madame Ahr |
| 1954 | Drum Beat · as Lily White |
| 1954 | Climax! (TV Series) · as Actress |
| 1953 | Man in the Attic · as Katy |
| 1952 | Mr. & Mrs. North (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1952 | The Unexpected (TV Series) · as Sister |
| 1951 | The Adventures of Kit Carson (TV Series) · as Mary Barker |
| 1950 | The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (TV Series) · as Sally |
| 1950 | Treasury Men in Action (TV Series) · as actor |
| 1948 | Unfaithfully Yours · as First Telephone Operator |
| 1948 | The Snake Pit · as Ward 33 Inmate |
| 1948 | Belle Starr's Daughter · as Belle Starr |
| 1947 | The Bishop's Wife · as Hysterical Mother |
| 1947 | Born to Kill · as Laury Palmer |
| 1946 | Badman's Territory · as Belle Starr |
| 1945 | Sensation Hunters · as Mae |
| 1943 | The Seventh Victim · as Frances Fallon |
| 1943 | The Leopard Man · as Maria the Fortune Teller |
| 1941 | High Sierra · as Blonde |
| 1940 | Northwest Passage · as Jennie Coit |
| 1940 | Marked Men · as Linda Harkness |
| 1940 | Little Men · as Stella |
| 1939 | Gone with the Wind · as Emmy Slattery |
| 1937 | Lost Horizon · as Gloria Stone |
| 1937 | Marked Woman · as Emmy Lou Eagan |
| 1936 | Ceiling Zero · as Lou Clarke |
| 1936 | The Leathernecks Have Landed · as Brooklyn |
| 1935 | A Tale of Two Cities · as The Seamstress |
| 1935 | Mad Love · as Marianne |
| 1935 | Shadow of Doubt · as Inez |
| 1934 | Manhattan Melodrama · as Annabelle |
| 1934 | Evelyn Prentice · as Judith Wilson |
| 1934 | She Had to Choose · as Sally Bates |
| 1933 | Design for Living · as Plunkett's Stenographer |
| 1933 | The Crime of the Century · as Bridge Player |
| 1933 | Bombshell · as Girl Friend |
| 1932 | Blessed Event · as Dorothy Lane |
| 1931 | The Week End Mystery · as Miss Keith |