Acting · London, England, UK · Born September 15, 1891
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.
TVLord Peter Wimsey
1972
as Dowager Duchess
MovieThe Magic Christian
1969
as Dame Agnes Grand
MovieHeavens Above!
1963
as Lady Despard
MovieVictoria Regina
1961
as Mistress of the Robes
MovieA Breath of Scandal
1960
as Princess Eugénie
MovieGigi
1958
as Aunt Alicia
MovieIt Happened in Rome
1957
as Cynthia
MovieElizabeth of Ladymead
1948
as Mother in 1903
MovieGreat Day
1945
as Lady Mott
MovieBanana Ridge
1942
as Sue Long
MovieSuspicion
1941
as Mrs. Newsham
MovieMan About Town
1939
as Mme. Dubois
MovieGood Girls Go to Paris
1939
as Caroline Brand
MovieBreakdowns of 1938
1938
as Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieHard to Get
1938
as Mrs. Henny Richards
MovieGarden of the Moon
1938
as Mrs. Lornay
MovieYouth Takes a Fling
1938
as Mrs. Merrivale
MovieSecrets of an Actress
1938
as Miss Marian Plantagenet
MovieFools for Scandal
1938
as Lady Paula Malverton
MovieTovarich
1937
as Fermonde Dupont
MovieThe Crouching Beast
1935
as The Pellegrini
MovieThe Dictator
1935
as Von Eyben
Rolling in Money
1934
as Duchess of Braceborough
Sally Bishop
1932
as Dolly Durlacher
MovieThe Return of the Rat
1929
as Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
MovieFurther Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant
1928
as Pauline Alexander
MovieEasy Virtue
1928
as Larita Filton
MovieDownhill
1927
as Julia
MovieThe Triumph of the Rat
1926
as Zelie
Windsor Castle
1926
MovieThe Rat
1925
as Zelie de Chaumet
