Isabel Jeans
Known for ActingBorn 1891-09-15 — died 1985-09-04London, England, UK
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Isabel Jeans (16 September 1891 – 4 September 1985) was an English stage and film actress.
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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
1941 · as Mrs. Newsham
Gigi
1958 · as Aunt Alicia
The Magic Christian
1969 · as Dame Agnes Grand
Victoria Regina
1961 · as Mistress of the Robes
Windsor Castle
1926
It Happened in Rome
1957 · as Cynthia
A Breath of Scandal
1960 · as Princess Eugénie
Breakdowns of 1938
1938 · as Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
Downhill
1927 · as Julia
Heavens Above!
1963 · as Lady Despard
Hard to Get
1938 · as Mrs. Henny Richards
Easy Virtue
1928 · as Larita Filton
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939 · as Caroline Brand
Tovarich
1937 · as Fermonde Dupont
Garden of the Moon
1938 · as Mrs. Lornay
Man About Town
1939 · as Mme. Dubois
Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant
1928 · as Pauline Alexander
Fools for Scandal
1938 · as Lady Paula Malverton