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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 30
Movies 29
TV Shows 1
Lord Peter Wimsey: Clouds of Witness (1972)
The Magic Christian (1969)
Heavens Above! (1963)
A Breath of Scandal (1960)
Gigi (1958)
Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948)
Great Day (1945)
Banana Ridge (1942)
Suspicion (1941)
Man About Town (1939)
Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
Breakdowns of 1938 (1938)
Hard to Get (1938)
Garden of the Moon (1938)
Youth Takes a Fling (1938)
Secrets of an Actress (1938)
Fools for Scandal (1938)
Tovarich (1937)
The Crouching Beast (1935)
The Dictator (1935)
Rolling in Money (1934)
Sally Bishop (1932)
The Return of the Rat (1929)
Easy Virtue (1928)
Downhill (1927)
Windsor Castle (1926)
The Rat (1925)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1891-09-16
Deathday1985-09-04 (93 years old)
Birth PlaceLondon, United Kingdom
RelationshipsClaude Rains (1913 - 1915)
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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