Isabel Jeans
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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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.128 |
| Birthday | 1891-09-15 |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1941
Suspicion
7.1/793
A wealthy and sheltered young woman elopes with a charming playboy and soon learns of his bad traits, including his extreme dishonesty and lust for mo...
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Suspicion
1969
The Magic Christian
5.7/39
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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The Magic Christian
1928
Easy Virtue
5.1/72
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 a...
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Easy Virtue
1937
Tovarich
6.2/4
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 Tatia...
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Tovarich
1958
Gigi
6.2/315
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 f...
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Gigi
1960
A Breath of Scandal
5.1/14
A European princess jeopardizes her crown when she falls for an American millionaire.
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A Breath of Scandal
1948
Elizabeth of Ladymead
6/1
Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.
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Elizabeth of Ladymead
1928
Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant
0/0
'Shanghai. Lieutenant escapes from spies and regains stolen plans.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant
1938
Secrets of an Actress
5.6/5
Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.
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Secrets of an Actress
1938
Fools for Scandal
6.2/5
An incognito Hollywood star (Carole Lombard) in Paris meets a penniless nobleman (Fernand Gravet) who follows her to London.
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Fools for Scandal
1945
Great Day
7.3/5
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
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Great Day
1934
Rolling in Money
0/0
An impoverished duchess arranges a marriage for her daughter to a wealthy working-class London barber.
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Rolling in Money
1939
Man About Town
4.5/3
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 pick...
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Man About Town
1938
Hard to Get
6/5
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 b...
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Hard to Get
1963
Heavens Above!
6.2/22
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 p...
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Heavens Above!
1925
The Rat
0/0
When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron, alias...
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The Rat
1926
The Triumph of the Rat
6/4
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 lea...
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The Triumph of the Rat
1938
Youth Takes a Fling
1/1
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 m...
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Youth Takes a Fling
1942
Banana Ridge
5.8/4
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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Banana Ridge
1938
Garden of the Moon
5.8/4
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 ov...
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Garden of the Moon
1957
It Happened in Rome
5.4/7
Three girls are on a hitchhiking trip through northern Italy, the riviera, Venice, Pisa and Rome.
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It Happened in Rome
1939
Good Girls Go to Paris
7.1/9
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...
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Good Girls Go to Paris
1926
Windsor Castle
0/0
British horror drama short from 1926.
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Windsor Castle
1935
The Dictator
6/1
The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroli...
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The Dictator
1929
The Return of the Rat
5.8/4
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...
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The Return of the Rat
1935
The Crouching Beast
0/0
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 pas...
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The Crouching Beast
1932
Sally Bishop
0/0
A British romantic drama film directed by T. Hayes Hunter
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Sally Bishop
1938
Breakdowns of 1938
5/2
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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Breakdowns of 1938
1927
Downhill
5.7/81
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 an...
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