
Isabel Jeans
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1891-09-15 – 1985-09-04
Place of birth: London, England, UK
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.
Known for

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