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Isabel Jeans

Sep 15, 1891 - Sep 04, 1985 (93 years old) in 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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Known For

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The Dictator
Von Eyben
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Elizabeth of Ladymead
Mother in 1903
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The Crouching Beast
The Pellegrini
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Fools for Scandal
Lady Paula Malverton
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Garden of the Moon
Mrs. Lornay
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The Return of the Rat
Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
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A Breath of Scandal
Princess Eugénie
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Hard to Get
Mrs. Henny Richards
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Sally Bishop
Dolly Durlacher
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Rolling in Money
Duchess of Braceborough

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