1891-09-15 London, 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.
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The Magic Christian | Dame Agnes Grand | 1969-12-12 |
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Heavens Above! | Lady Despard | 1963-05-20 |
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A Breath of Scandal | Princess Eugénie | 1960-03-16 |
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Gigi | Aunt Alicia | 1958-05-15 |
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Souvenir d'Italie | Cynthia | 1957-04-08 |
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Elizabeth of Ladymead | Mother in 1903 | 1948-12-22 |
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Great Day | Lady Mott | 1945-07-09 |
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Banana Ridge | Sue Long | 1942-04-20 |
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Suspicion | Mrs. Newsham | 1941-11-14 |
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Good Girls Go to Paris | Caroline Brand | 1939-06-20 |
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Man About Town | Mme. Dubois | 1939-06-29 |
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Fools for Scandal | Lady Paula Malverton | 1938-04-16 |
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Garden of the Moon | Mrs. Lornay | 1938-09-23 |
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Breakdowns of 1938 | Paula (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1938-12-31 |
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Youth Takes a Fling | Mrs. Merrivale | 1938-09-22 |
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Secrets of an Actress | Miss Marian Plantagenet | 1938-09-10 |
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Hard to Get | Mrs. Henny Richards | 1938-11-05 |
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Tovarich | Fermonde Dupont | 1937-12-25 |
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The Crouching Beast | The Pellegrini | 1935-08-29 |
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The Dictator | Von Eyben | 1935-02-07 |
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Rolling in Money | Duchess of Braceborough | 1934-03-01 |
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Sally Bishop | Dolly Durlacher | 1932-10-17 |
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The Return of the Rat | Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron | 1929-05-30 |
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Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant | Pauline Alexander | 1928-09-10 |
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Easy Virtue | Larita Filton | 1928-03-05 |
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Downhill | Julia | 1927-10-24 |
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Windsor Castle | 1926-01-01 | |
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The Triumph of the Rat | Zelie | 1926-03-21 |
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The Rat | Zelie de Chaumet | 1925-09-07 |
