Isabel Jeans

Isabel Jeans

Born: September 15, 1891
Died: September 4, 1985
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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The Magic Christian
Title: The Magic Christian
Character: Dame Agnes Grand
Released: December 12, 1969
Type: Movie
Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought.
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Heavens Above!
Title: Heavens Above!
Character: Lady Despard
Released: May 20, 1963
Type: Movie
A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...
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A Breath of Scandal
Title: A Breath of Scandal
Character: Princess Eugénie
Released: March 16, 1960
Type: Movie
A European princess jeopardizes her crown when she falls for an American millionaire.
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Gigi
Title: Gigi
Character: Aunt Alicia
Released: May 15, 1958
Type: Movie
A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.
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It Happened in Rome
Title: It Happened in Rome
Character: Cynthia
Released: April 8, 1957
Type: Movie
Three girls are on a hitchhiking trip through northern Italy, the riviera, Venice, Pisa and Rome.
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Elizabeth of Ladymead
Title: Elizabeth of Ladymead
Character: Mother in 1903
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.
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Great Day
Title: Great Day
Character: Lady Mott
Released: July 9, 1945
Type: Movie
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
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Banana Ridge
Title: Banana Ridge
Character: Sue Long
Released: April 20, 1942
Type: Movie
When Susie Long appears, together with her 20 year old son, Pink and Pound are thrown into confusion that one of them could be his father.
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Suspicion
Title: Suspicion
Character: Mrs. Newsham
Released: November 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though warned that Johnnie is little more than a fortune hunter, Lina marries him anyway and remains loyal to her irresponsible husband as he plows his way from one disreputable business scheme to another. Gradually Lina comes to the conclusion that Johnnie intends to kill her in order to collect her inheritance.
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Man About Town
Title: Man About Town
Character: Mme. Dubois
Released: June 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.
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Good Girls Go to Paris
Title: Good Girls Go to Paris
Character: Caroline Brand
Released: June 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
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Breakdowns of 1938
Title: Breakdowns of 1938
Character: Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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Hard to Get
Title: Hard to Get
Character: Mrs. Henny Richards
Released: November 5, 1938
Type: Movie
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.
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Garden of the Moon
Title: Garden of the Moon
Character: Mrs. Lornay
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.
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Youth Takes a Fling
Title: Youth Takes a Fling
Character: Mrs. Merrivale
Released: September 22, 1938
Type: Movie
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
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Secrets of an Actress
Title: Secrets of an Actress
Character: Miss Marian Plantagenet
Released: September 10, 1938
Type: Movie
Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.
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Fools for Scandal
Title: Fools for Scandal
Character: Lady Paula Malverton
Released: April 16, 1938
Type: Movie
An incognito Hollywood star (Carole Lombard) in Paris meets a penniless nobleman (Fernand Gravet) who follows her to London.
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Tovarich
Title: Tovarich
Character: Fermonde Dupont
Released: December 25, 1937
Type: Movie
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.
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The Crouching Beast
Title: The Crouching Beast
Character: The Pellegrini
Released: August 29, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to pass his information to an American journalist.
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The Dictator
Title: The Dictator
Character: Von Eyben
Released: February 7, 1935
Type: Movie
The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.
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Rolling in Money
Title: Rolling in Money
Character: Duchess of Braceborough
Released: March 1, 1934
Type: Movie
An impoverished duchess arranges a marriage for her daughter to a wealthy working-class London barber.
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Sally Bishop
Title: Sally Bishop
Character: Dolly Durlacher
Released: October 17, 1932
Type: Movie
A British romantic drama film directed by T. Hayes Hunter
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The Return of the Rat
Title: The Return of the Rat
Character: Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
Released: May 30, 1929
Type: Movie
The rich, amoral Zelie is married to Pierre Boucheron, "The Rat" - but her interest in another man is an open secret. Forced to defend his honour, the Rat takes refuge in his old domain of the Paris underworld. But even here he has a rival - and when murder is afoot, the sinister Morel's ambition threatens to cost the Rat dear....
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Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant
Title: Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant
Character: Pauline Alexander
Released: September 10, 1928
Type: Movie
'Shanghai. Lieutenant escapes from spies and regains stolen plans.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Easy Virtue
Title: Easy Virtue
Character: Larita Filton
Released: March 5, 1928
Type: Movie
Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They are later married, but John's well-to-do family finds out Larita's secret.
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Downhill
Title: Downhill
Character: Julia
Released: October 24, 1927
Type: Movie
Roddy, first son of the rich Berwick family, is expelled from school when he takes the blame for his friend Tim's charge. His family sends him away and all of his friends leave him alone. Through many life choices that don't work out in his favor, Roddy begins to find his life slowly spiraling out of his control.
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The Triumph of the Rat
Title: The Triumph of the Rat
Character: Zelie
Released: March 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' and a former underworld notoriety, is now living the high life as the kept man of Zelie de Chaumet. But when she learns he is planning to marry another woman, her vengeance pursues him into the murkiest depths of Paris...
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The Rat
Title: The Rat
Character: Zelie de Chaumet
Released: September 7, 1925
Type: Movie
When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' , boy-king of the Paris underworld, and the innocent Odile. Love, life and jewels are risked and lost in this powerful romantic melodrama as the four characters' lives are changed by this chance encounter for ever.