Isabel Jeans
An image from Gigi, one of the productions that also features Isabel Jeans.
Isabel Jeans

Isabel Jeans

September 15, 1891 — London, England, UK

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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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Suspicion

Suspicion

1941

Gigi

Gigi

1958

Downhill

Downhill

1927

Easy Virtue

Easy Virtue

1928

The Magic Christian

The Magic Christian

1969

Heavens Above!

Heavens Above!

1963

A Breath of Scandal

A Breath of Scandal

1960

Good Girls Go to Paris

Good Girls Go to Paris

1939