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Isabel Jeans
from the trailer for the film Tovarich (1937)
Born	16 September 1891 London, England
Died	4 September 1985 (aged 93) London, England

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 a definitive 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.

Personal life

Jeans' brother Desmond was an actor and boxer, while her sister Ursula became a respected character actress and married the actor Roger Livesey.

She was twice married, both times to fellow actors:

• Claude Rains (1913–1915}
• Gilbert Wakefield

Partial filmography

• The Profligate (1917)
• Tilly of Bloomsbury (1921)
• The Rat (1925)
• Windsor Castle (1926)
• The Triumph of the Rat (1926)
• Further Adventures of a Flag Officer (1927)
• Downhill (1927)
• Easy Virtue (1928)
• Tovarich (1937)
• Fools for Scandal (1938)
• Secrets of an Actress (1938)
• Suspicion (1941)
• Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948)
• Gigi (1958)
• A Breath of Scandal (1960)
• The Magic Christian (1969)

External links

• Isabel Jeans at the Internet Movie Database
• Isabel Jeans at the Internet Broadway Database
• Isabel Jeans at Find a Grave