Biography
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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
Cast Credits
Lord Peter Wimsey
Character: Dowager Duchess
TV • 1972
The Magic Christian
Character: Dame Agnes Grand
MOVIE • 1969
Heavens Above!
Character: Lady Despard
MOVIE • 1963
A Breath of Scandal
Character: Princess Eugénie
MOVIE • 1960
Gigi
Character: Aunt Alicia
MOVIE • 1958
It Happened in Rome
Character: Cynthia
MOVIE • 1957
Elizabeth of Ladymead
Character: Mother in 1903
MOVIE • 1948
Great Day
Character: Lady Mott
MOVIE • 1945
Banana Ridge
Character: Sue Long
MOVIE • 1942
Suspicion
Character: Mrs. Newsham
MOVIE • 1941
Man About Town
Character: Mme. Dubois
MOVIE • 1939
Good Girls Go to Paris
Character: Caroline Brand
MOVIE • 1939
Breakdowns of 1938
Character: Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
MOVIE • 1938
Hard to Get
Character: Mrs. Henny Richards
MOVIE • 1938
Garden of the Moon
Character: Mrs. Lornay
MOVIE • 1938
Youth Takes a Fling
Character: Mrs. Merrivale
MOVIE • 1938
Secrets of an Actress
Character: Miss Marian Plantagenet
MOVIE • 1938
Fools for Scandal
Character: Lady Paula Malverton
MOVIE • 1938
Tovarich
Character: Fermonde Dupont
MOVIE • 1937
The Crouching Beast
Character: The Pellegrini
MOVIE • 1935