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Isabel Jewell (July 19, 1907 β 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
all 70
Movies 67
TV Shows 3
Ciao! Manhattan (1973)
Sweet Kill (1972)
The New Cinema (1968)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1961)
Lock Up (1959)
Bernardine (1957)
Gunsmoke (1955)
Drum Beat (1954)
Man in the Attic (1953)
Mr. & Mrs. North (1952)
Belle Starr's Daughter (1948)
Michael O'Halloran (1948)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Born to Kill (1947)
Badman's Territory (1946)
Sensation Hunters (1945)
Steppin' in Society (1945)
The Merry Monahans (1944)
The Falcon and the Co-Eds (1943)
Danger! Women at Work (1943)
The Seventh Victim (1943)
The Leopard Man (1943)
For Beauty's Sake (1941)
High Sierra (1941)
Little Men (1940)
Marked Men (1940)
Scatterbrain (1940)
Babies for Sale (1940)
Irene (1940)
Northwest Passage (1940)
Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love! (1940)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Missing Daughters (1939)
They Asked For It (1939)
The Crowd Roars (1938)
Swing It, Sailor! (1938)
Love on Toast (1937)
Marked Woman (1937)
Lost Horizon (1937)
Career Woman (1936)
Go West Young Man (1936)
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936)
The Man Who Lived Twice (1936)
36 Hours to Kill (1936)
Small Town Girl (1936)
Big Brown Eyes (1936)
The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936)
Dancing Feet (1936)
Ceiling Zero (1936)
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
The Casino Murder Case (1935)
Times Square Lady (1935)
I've Been Around (1935)
Shadow of Doubt (1935)
Evelyn Prentice (1934)
She Had to Choose (1934)
Here Comes the Groom (1934)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 (1934)
Design for Living (1933)
Counsellor at Law (1933)
The Women in His Life (1933)
Advice to the Lovelorn (1933)
Day of Reckoning (1933)
Bombshell (1933)
Beauty for Sale (1933)
Bondage (1933)
The Crime of the Century (1933)
Blessed Event (1932)
The Week End Mystery (1931)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1907-07-19
Deathday1972-04-05 (64 years old)
Birth PlaceShoshoni, United States of America
RelationshipsPaul Marion (1941-01-01 - 1943-01-01)
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsIsabel Jewel, Isobel Jewell
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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