Isabel Jeans

Isabel Jeans

Birthday: 1891-09-15

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.

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Suspicion
Suspicion

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The Magic Christian
The Magic Christian

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Easy Virtue
Easy Virtue

Unjustly accused of adultery in a scandalous divorce, Larita Filton flees to the French Riviera. She...

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Tovarich
Tovarich

When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they...

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Gigi
Gigi

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A Breath of Scandal
A Breath of Scandal

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Elizabeth of Ladymead
Elizabeth of Ladymead

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Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant
Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant

'Shanghai. Lieutenant escapes from spies and regains stolen plans.' (British Film Catalogue)...

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Secrets of an Actress
Secrets of an Actress

Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress....

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Fools for Scandal
Fools for Scandal

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Great Day
Great Day

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Rolling in Money
Rolling in Money

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Man About Town
Man About Town

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Hard to Get
Hard to Get

When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill...

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Heavens Above!
Heavens Above!

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The Rat
The Rat

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The Triumph of the Rat
The Triumph of the Rat

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Youth Takes a Fling
Youth Takes a Fling

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Banana Ridge
Banana Ridge

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Garden of the Moon
Garden of the Moon

Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performin...

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It Happened in Rome
It Happened in Rome

Three girls are on a hitchhiking trip through northern Italy, the riviera, Venice, Pisa and Rome....

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Good Girls Go to Paris
Good Girls Go to Paris

Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor ...

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Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle

British horror drama short from 1926....

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The Dictator
The Dictator

The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Chris...

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The Return of the Rat
The Return of the Rat

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The Crouching Beast
The Crouching Beast

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Sally Bishop
Sally Bishop

A British romantic drama film directed by T. Hayes Hunter...

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Breakdowns of 1938
Breakdowns of 1938

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938....

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Downhill
Downhill

When school captain Roddy Berwick takes the blame for his friend’s scandal, he is expelled and disow...

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Victoria Regina
Victoria Regina

Julie Harris portrays the famed Queen Victoria over a 60 year span, from the age of 18 through her r...

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