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
Suspicion
1941
as Mrs. Newsham
Gigi
1958
as Aunt Alicia
The Magic Christian
1969
as Dame Agnes Grand
Easy Virtue
1928
as Larita Filton
Downhill
1927
as Julia
Man About Town
1939
as Mme. Dubois
Tovarich
1937
as Fermonde Dupont
Heavens Above!
1963
as Lady Despard
The Dictator
1935
as Von Eyben
A Breath of Scandal
1960
as Princess Eugénie
It Happened in Rome
1957
as Cynthia
Youth Takes a Fling
1938
as Mrs. Merrivale
The Return of the Rat
1929
as Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
Breakdowns of 1938
1938
as Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
Garden of the Moon
1938
as Mrs. Lornay
The Triumph of the Rat
1926
as Zelie
The Crouching Beast
1935
as The Pellegrini
Great Day
1945
as Lady Mott
Fools for Scandal
1938
as Lady Paula Malverton
Hard to Get
1938
as Mrs. Henny Richards