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Isabel Jeans

1891-09-15 – 1985-09-04 (age 93) London, England, UK
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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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Known For

Suspicion
Suspicion

1941

as Mrs. Newsham

Gigi
Gigi

1958

as Aunt Alicia

The Magic Christian
The Magic Christian

1969

as Dame Agnes Grand

A Breath of Scandal
A Breath of Scandal

1960

as Princess Eugénie

Easy Virtue
Easy Virtue

1928

as Larita Filton

Tovarich
Tovarich

1937

as Fermonde Dupont

It Happened in Rome
It Happened in Rome

1957

as Cynthia

Hard to Get
Hard to Get

1938

as Mrs. Henny Richards

Downhill
Downhill

1927

as Julia

Garden of the Moon
Garden of the Moon

1938

as Mrs. Lornay

Victoria Regina
Victoria Regina

1961

as Mistress of the Robes

Heavens Above!
Heavens Above!

1963

as Lady Despard

Good Girls Go to Paris
Good Girls Go to Paris

1939

as Caroline Brand

Breakdowns of 1938
Breakdowns of 1938

1938

as Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)

Secrets of an Actress
Secrets of an Actress

1938

as Miss Marian Plantagenet

Fools for Scandal
Fools for Scandal

1938

as Lady Paula Malverton

Man About Town
Man About Town

1939

as Mme. Dubois

The Return of the Rat
The Return of the Rat

1929

as Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron

Youth Takes a Fling
Youth Takes a Fling

1938

as Mrs. Merrivale