Isabel Jeans

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Isabel Jeans (September 16, 1891 London, England – September 4, 1985 London, England) was a distinguished English stage and film actress.

She was an elegant and courtly character actress who led a long and distinguished stage career. She played a couple of major roles in two Hitchcock silents, Downhill {1927) and Easy Virtue (1928), before playing a number of grande dames in Hollywood films, such as Suspicion (1941) and Gigi (1958).

[edit] Family Life

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

Isabel was twice married:

• 1) The actor Claude Rains (1913–1915}
• 2) The actor Gilbert Wakefield

[edit] 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)
• Gigi (1958)

[edit] External links

• The Internet Movie Database