Isabel Jeans
Birthday: 1891-09-16 | Place of Birth: London, England, UKFrom 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Dame Agnes Grand
as Lady Despard
as Aunt Alicia
as Mrs. Newsham
as Mme. Dubois
as Miss Marian Plantagenet
as Mrs. Henny Richards
as Fermonde Dupont
as Julia
as Larita Filton
as Zelie de Chaumet
