Biography
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.
Movies & TV Shows
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Suspicion (1941) — Mrs. Newsham
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Gigi (1958) — Aunt Alicia
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Downhill (1927) — Julia
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Easy Virtue (1928) — Larita Filton
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The Magic Christian (1969) — Dame Agnes Grand
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Heavens Above! (1963) — Lady Despard
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A Breath of Scandal (1960) — Princess Eugénie
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Good Girls Go to Paris (1939) — Caroline Brand
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It Happened in Rome (1957) — Cynthia
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Secrets of an Actress (1938) — Miss Marian Plantagenet
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Fools for Scandal (1938) — Lady Paula Malverton
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Great Day (1945) — Lady Mott
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Hard to Get (1938) — Mrs. Henny Richards
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Garden of the Moon (1938) — Mrs. Lornay
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Tovarich (1937) — Fermonde Dupont
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Man About Town (1939) — Mme. Dubois
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The Triumph of the Rat (1926) — Zelie
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Banana Ridge (1942) — Sue Long
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The Return of the Rat (1929) — Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
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Breakdowns of 1938 (1938) — Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948) — Mother in 1903
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The Rat (1925) — Zelie de Chaumet
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Youth Takes a Fling (1938) — Mrs. Merrivale
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The Dictator (1935) — Von Eyben
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Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant (1928) — Pauline Alexander
- Rolling in Money (1934) — Duchess of Braceborough
- Windsor Castle (1926)
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The Crouching Beast (1935) — The Pellegrini
- Sally Bishop (1932) — Dolly Durlacher
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Victoria Regina (1961) — Mistress of the Robes
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Lord Peter Wimsey (1972) — Dowager Duchess