Isabel Jeans
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.
Movie Appearances
Suspicion
as Mrs. Newsham
1941
The Magic Christian
as Dame Agnes Grand
1969
Easy Virtue
as Larita Filton
1928
Tovarich
as Fermonde Dupont
1937
Gigi
as Aunt Alicia
1958
A Breath of Scandal
as Princess Eugénie
1960
Elizabeth of Ladymead
as Mother in 1903
1948
Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant
as Pauline Alexander
1928
Secrets of an Actress
as Miss Marian Plantagenet
1938
Fools for Scandal
as Lady Paula Malverton
1938
Great Day
as Lady Mott
1945
Rolling in Money
as Duchess of Braceborough
1934
Man About Town
as Mme. Dubois
1939
Hard to Get
as Mrs. Henny Richards
1938
Heavens Above!
as Lady Despard
1963
The Rat
as Zelie de Chaumet
1925
The Triumph of the Rat
as Zelie
1926
Youth Takes a Fling
as Mrs. Merrivale
1938
Banana Ridge
as Sue Long
1942
Garden of the Moon
as Mrs. Lornay
1938
