Isabel Jeans

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.

Filmography

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