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
Suspicion
Mrs. Newsham
Gigi
Aunt Alicia
The Magic Christian
Dame Agnes Grand
Downhill
Julia
Easy Virtue
Larita Filton
Lord Peter Wimsey
Dowager Duchess
A Breath of Scandal
Princess Eugénie
Garden of the Moon
Mrs. Lornay
Tovarich
Fermonde Dupont
Heavens Above!
Lady Despard
It Happened in Rome
Cynthia
Banana Ridge
Sue Long
Breakdowns of 1938
Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
Great Day
Lady Mott
Man About Town
Mme. Dubois
Hard to Get
Mrs. Henny Richards
Good Girls Go to Paris
Caroline Brand
The Dictator
Von Eyben
The Crouching Beast
The Pellegrini
Secrets of an Actress
Miss Marian Plantagenet
Youth Takes a Fling
Mrs. Merrivale
Fools for Scandal
Lady Paula Malverton
Rolling in Money
Duchess of Braceborough
Sally Bishop
Dolly Durlacher
Elizabeth of Ladymead
Mother in 1903
Windsor Castle
The Rat
Zelie de Chaumet
The Return of the Rat
Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant
Pauline Alexander
The Triumph of the Rat
Zelie