Isabel Jeans

Born:September 15, 1891

Place of Birth:London, England, UK

Died:September 4, 1985

Known For: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 Eddison and Dame Flora Robson.

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Filmography

Acting

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Gigi

Aunt Alicia

1958

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Suspicion

Mrs. Newsham

1941

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Heavens Above!

Lady Despard

1963