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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
all 29
Movies 28
TV Shows 1
Dowager Duchess
Lord Peter Wimsey: Clouds of Witness (1972)
TV
Dame Agnes Grand
The Magic Christian (1969)
Movie
Lady Despard
Heavens Above! (1963)
Movie
Princess Eugénie
A Breath of Scandal (1960)
Movie
Aunt Alicia
Gigi (1958)
Movie
1
Cynthia
It Happened in Rome (1957)
Movie
Mother in 1903
Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948)
Movie
Lady Mott
Great Day (1945)
Movie
Sue Long
Banana Ridge (1942)
Movie
Mrs. Newsham
Suspicion (1941)
Movie
2
Mme. Dubois
Man About Town (1939)
Movie
Caroline Brand
Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
Movie
Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
Breakdowns of 1938 (1938)
Movie
Mrs. Richards
Hard to Get (1938)
Movie
Mrs. Lornay
Garden of the Moon (1938)
Movie
Mrs. Merrivale
Youth Takes a Fling (1938)
Movie
Marian Plantagenet
Secrets of an Actress (1938)
Movie
Lady Paula Malverton
Fools for Scandal (1938)
Movie
Fermonde Dupont
Tovarich (1937)
Movie
The Pellegrini
The Crouching Beast (1935)
Movie
Von Eyben
The Dictator (1935)
Movie
Duchess of Braceborough
Rolling in Money (1934)
Movie
Dolly Durlacher
Sally Bishop (1932)
Movie
Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
The Return of the Rat (1929)
Movie
Pauline
Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant (1928)
Movie
Larita Filton
Easy Virtue (1928)
Movie
Julia Fotheringale
Downhill (1927)
Movie
Zelie de Chaumet
The Triumph of the Rat (1926)
Movie
Zelie de Chaumet
The Rat (1925)
Movie
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1891-09-15
Deathday1985-09-04 (93 years old)
Birth PlaceLondon, United Kingdom
RelationshipsClaude Rains (1913-01-01 - 1915-01-01)
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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