Isabel Jeans
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Film
Suspicion
Mrs. Newsham
1941
Film
Gigi
Aunt Alicia
1958
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey
Dowager Duchess
1972
Film
The Magic Christian
Dame Agnes Grand
1969
Film
A Breath of Scandal
Princess Eugénie
1960
Film
Downhill
Julia
1927
Film
Easy Virtue
Larita Filton
1928
Film
Heavens Above!
Lady Despard
1963
Film
Breakdowns of 1938
Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
1938
Film
Hard to Get
Mrs. Henny Richards
1938
Film
Good Girls Go to Paris
Caroline Brand
1939
Film
Tovarich
Fermonde Dupont
1937
Film
It Happened in Rome
Cynthia
1957
Film
Victoria Regina
Mistress of the Robes
1961
Film
Secrets of an Actress
Miss Marian Plantagenet
1938
Film
Great Day
Lady Mott
1945
Film
Garden of the Moon
Mrs. Lornay
1938
Film
Fools for Scandal
Lady Paula Malverton
1938
Film
Youth Takes a Fling
Mrs. Merrivale
1938
Windsor Castle
1926
Film
Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant
Pauline Alexander
1928
Film
The Dictator
Von Eyben
1935
Film
Man About Town
Mme. Dubois
1939
Film
Banana Ridge
Sue Long
1942
Film
The Rat
Zelie de Chaumet
1925
Film
The Crouching Beast
The Pellegrini
1935
Film
The Return of the Rat
Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
1929
Film
Elizabeth of Ladymead
Mother in 1903
1948
Sally Bishop
Dolly Durlacher
1932
Rolling in Money
Duchess of Braceborough
1934
Film
The Triumph of the Rat
Zelie
1926