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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.
The roles that explain the career.
18 credits across 1 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | The Magic Christian | Dame Agnes Grand | Film |
| 1963 | Heavens Above! | Lady Despard | Film |
| 1960 | A Breath of Scandal | Princess Eugénie | Film |
| 1958 | Gigi | Aunt Alicia | Film |
| 1957 | It Happened in Rome | Cynthia | Film |
| 1948 | Elizabeth of Ladymead | Mother in 1903 | Film |
| 1945 | Great Day | Lady Mott | Film |
| 1941 | Suspicion | Mrs. Newsham | Film |
| 1939 | Good Girls Go to Paris | Caroline Brand | Film |
| 1939 | Man About Town | Mme. Dubois | Film |
| 1938 | Youth Takes a Fling | Mrs. Merrivale | Film |
| 1938 | Secrets of an Actress | Miss Marian Plantagenet | Film |
| 1938 | Fools for Scandal | Lady Paula Malverton | Film |
| 1938 | Garden of the Moon | Mrs. Lornay | Film |
| 1937 | Tovarich | Fermonde Dupont | Film |
| 1928 | Easy Virtue | Larita Filton | Film |
| 1928 | Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant | Pauline Alexander | Film |
| 1927 | Downhill | Julia | Film |
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