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Isabel Jeans
Acting
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 Ed…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
The Magic Christian
as Dame Agnes Grand
Heavens Above!
as Lady Despard
Victoria Regina
as Mistress of the Robes
A Breath of Scandal
as Princess Eugénie
Gigi
as Aunt Alicia
It Happened in Rome
as Cynthia
Elizabeth of Ladymead
as Mother in 1903
Great Day
as Lady Mott
Banana Ridge
as Sue Long
Suspicion
as Mrs. Newsham
