Isabel Jeans

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

Lord Peter Wimsey 1972
The Magic Christian 1969 ★ 5.8
Heavens Above! 1963 ★ 6.6
Victoria Regina 1961 ★ 8.0
A Breath of Scandal 1960 ★ 5.6
Gigi 1958 ★ 6.2
It Happened in Rome 1957 ★ 5.8
Great Day 1945 ★ 7.4
Banana Ridge 1942 ★ 6.2
Suspicion 1941 ★ 7.1
Good Girls Go to Paris 1939 ★ 7.1
Man About Town 1939 ★ 4.5
Breakdowns of 1938 1938 ★ 5.8
Hard to Get 1938 ★ 6.3
Secrets of an Actress 1938 ★ 6.0
Garden of the Moon 1938 ★ 6.8
Fools for Scandal 1938 ★ 6.3
Youth Takes a Fling 1938 ★ 5.5
Tovarich 1937 ★ 6.4
The Dictator 1935 ★ 6.5
Easy Virtue 1928 ★ 5.3
Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant 1928 ★ 9.0
Downhill 1927 ★ 5.7
The Rat 1925 ★ 8.5