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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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Suspicion
Mrs. Newsham
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Gigi
Aunt Alicia
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Easy Virtue
Larita Filton
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The Magic Christian
Dame Agnes Grand
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Downhill
Julia
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Lord Peter Wimsey
Dowager Duchess
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Tovarich
Fermonde Dupont
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Heavens Above!
Lady Despard
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It Happened in Rome
Cynthia
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Great Day
Lady Mott

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