Isabel Jewell
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Isabel Jewell (July 19, 1907 – April 5, 1972) was an American actress most active in the 1930s and early 1940s. Some of her most famous films were Ceiling Zero, Marked Woman, A Tale of Two Cities, and Gone With the Wind. After years in theater stock companies, including an 87-week stint in Lincoln, Nebraska, she hit the big time after getting a part on Broadway in Up Pops the Devil (1930). She received glowing critical reviews for Blessed Event (1932) as well.
Jewell's film debut came in Blessed Event (1932). She had been brought to Hollywood by Warner Brothers for the film version of Up Pops the Devil. Jewell gained other supporting roles, appearing in a variety of films in the early 1930s. She played stereotypical gangsters' women in such films as Manhattan Melodrama (1934) and Marked Woman (1937). She was well received playing against type, as the seamstress sentenced to death on the guillotine along with Sydney Carton (Ronald Colman in A Tale of Two Cities (1935). Her most significant role was as the prostitute Gloria Stone in Lost Horizon (1937). Jewell's films included Gone with the Wind (1939) (in the role of "that white trash, Emmy Slattery"), Northwest Passage (1940), High Sierra (1941), and the low-budget The Leopard Man (1943).
By the end of the 1940s, her roles had reduced in significance to the degree that her performances were often uncredited, e.g. The Snake Pit. She performed in radio dramas in the 1950s, including This is Your FBI.
In 1972, Jewell appeared opposite Edie Sedgwick in the film Ciao! Manhattan. Her final film was the B movie Sweet Kill (1973), the directorial debut of Curtis Hanson, a future Academy Award winner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isabel Jewell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known for
Gunsmoke
Madame Ahr
Gone with the Wind
Emmy Slattery
Lock-Up
Sensation Hunters
Mae
For Beauty's Sake
Amy Devore
Drum Beat
Lily White
The New Cinema
Self
Blessed Event
Dorothy Lane
Irene
Jane McGee
Manhattan Melodrama
Annabelle
Ceiling Zero
Lou Clarke
Here Comes the Groom
Angy
Let’s Be Ritzy
Betty
Mr. & Mrs. North
Man in the Attic
Katy
Times Square Lady
Babe
Bernardine
Ruby McDuff
Little Men
Stella
Sweet Kill
Mrs. Cole
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Lilli Eipper
Badman's Territory
Belle Starr
Big Brown Eyes
Bessie Blair
Bombshell
Nellie, Junior's Girlfriend
Small Town Girl
Emily 'Em' Brannan
High Sierra
Blonde
Swing It, Sailor!
Myrtle Montrose
The Bishop's Wife
Hysterical Mother
Scatterbrain
Esther Harrington
Lost Horizon
Gloria Stone
Northwest Passage
Jennie Coit
Michael O'Halloran
Mrs Laura Nelson
Marked Men
Linda Harkness
Babies for Sale
Edith Drake
Born to Kill
Laury Palmer
Evelyn Prentice
Judith Wilson
Mad Love
Marianne (scenes deleted)
A Tale of Two Cities
The Seamstress
Bondage
Beulah
The Leopard Man
Maria the Fortune Teller
The Seventh Victim
Frances Fallon
The Crowd Roars
Mrs. Martin
Design for Living
Plunkett's Stenographer
Marked Woman
Emmy Lou Eagan
Shadow of Doubt
Inez
Beauty for Sale
Hortense
Dancing Feet
Mabel Henry
Go West Young Man
Gladys
Day of Reckoning
Kate Lovett
Love on Toast
Belle Huntley
The Women in His Life
Catherine Watson
Belle Starr's Daughter
Belle Starr
Counsellor at Law
Bessie Green
Steppin' in Society
Jenny the Juke
Danger! Women at Work
Marie
Ciao! Manhattan
Mummy
36 Hours to Kill
Jeanie Benson
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
Mary Phoebus
The Merry Monahans
Rose
The Leathernecks Have Landed
Brooklyn
I've Been Around
Sally Van Loan
They Asked For It
Molly Herkimer
The Casino Murder Case
Amelia Llewellyn
Missing Daughters
Peggy
The Crime of the Century
Bridge Player (uncredited)
Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!
Gertie - Truck Stop Waitress
She Had to Choose
Sally Bates
Career Woman
Gracie Clay
The Man Who Lived Twice
Peggy Russell
Advice to the Lovelorn
Rose