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Isabel Jewell

Actor
Born July 19, 1907Died 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

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • The Bishop's Wife
  • Design for Living
  • Man in the Attic
  • Sweet Kill
  • Belle Starr's Daughter
  • Sensation Hunters

Known For

  • Lost Horizon
  • The Seventh Victim
  • Design for Living
  • Marked Woman
  • Mad Love
  • Born to Kill
  • The Leopard Man
  • Manhattan Melodrama
  • Ciao Manhattan
  • Northwest Passage
  • Counsellor at Law
  • Evelyn Prentice
  • Bombshell
  • Big Brown Eyes
  • Sweet Kill
  • Ceiling Zero
  • Marked Men
  • Shadow of Doubt
  • The Leathernecks Have Landed
  • She Had to Choose

Filmography

1972
Ciao Manhattan · as Mummy
1972
Sweet Kill · as Mrs. Cole
1969
Hollywood: The Selznick Years · as 'a Tale Of Two Cities' (archive Footage) (uncredited)
1967
Judd for the Defense (TV Series) · as Geraldine Hull
1963
Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) · as Mrs. Lyons
1960
The Aquanauts (TV Series) · as Miss Port
1959
Lock-Up (TV Series)
1959
The Untouchables (TV Series) · as Sophie
1957
Bernardine · as Ruby Mcduff
1955
Matinee Theater (TV Series) · as Cast
1955
Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Madame Ahr
1954
Drum Beat · as Lily White
1954
Climax! (TV Series) · as Actress
1953
1952
Mr. & Mrs. North (TV Series)
1952
The Unexpected (TV Series) · as Sister
1951
The Adventures of Kit Carson (TV Series) · as Mary Barker
1950
1950
Treasury Men in Action (TV Series) · as Cast
1949
The Story of Molly X · as Mrs. Mack - Prison Laundry Matron
1949
Fireside Theatre (TV Series) · as Cast
1948
Unfaithfully Yours · as First Telephone Operator
1948
1948
The Snake Pit · as Ward 33 Inmate
1947
The Bishop's Wife · as Hysterical Mother
1947
Born to Kill · as Laury Palmer
1946
Badman's Territory · as Belle Starr
1945
1944
1943
The Falcon and the Co-eds · as Mary Phoebus
1943
1943
The Seventh Victim · as Frances Fallon
1943
The Leopard Man · as Maria The Fortune Teller
1941
High Sierra · as Blonde
1940
Little Men · as Stella
1940
Marked Men · as Linda Harkness
1940
Scatterbrain · as Esther Harrington
1940
Babies for Sale · as Edith Drake
1940
Irene · as Jane Mcgee
1940
Northwest Passage · as Jennie Coit
1939
Gone with the Wind · as Emmy Slattery
1938
The Crowd Roars · as Mrs. Martin
1938
Swing It, Sailor! · as Myrtle Montrose
1937
Love on Toast · as Belle Huntley
1937
Marked Woman · as Emmy Lou Eagan
1937
Lost Horizon · as Gloria Stone
1936
Career Woman · as Gracie Clay
1936
Go West Young Man · as Gladys
1936
1936
The Man Who Lived Twice · as Peggy Russell
1936
36 Hours to Kill · as Jeanie Benson
1936
Small Town Girl · as Emily 'em' Brannan
1936
Big Brown Eyes · as Bessie Blair
1936
1936
Dancing Feet · as Mabel Henry
1936
Ceiling Zero · as Lou Clarke
1935
A Tale of Two Cities · as The Seamstress
1935
Mad Love · as Marianne (scenes Deleted)
1935
1935
1935
Shadow of Doubt · as Inez
1934
Evelyn Prentice · as Judith Wilson
1934
She Had to Choose · as Sally Bates
1934
Manhattan Melodrama · as Annabelle
1933
Design for Living · as Plunkett's Stenographer
1933
Counsellor at Law · as Bessie Green
1933
The Women in His Life · as Catherine Watson
1933
1933
Day of Reckoning · as Kate Lovett
1933
Bombshell · as Nellie, Junior's Girlfriend
1933
Beauty for Sale · as Hortense
1933
The Crime of the Century · as Bridge Player (uncredited)
1932
Blessed Event · as Dorothy Lane
1931
The Week End Mystery · as Miss Keith

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