Isabel Jewell
Isabel Jewell | |
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from the trailer for The Casino Murder Case (1935). | |
Born |
Shoshoni, Wyoming, U.S. | July 19, 1907
Died |
April 5, 1972 64) Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged
Other names |
Isabel Jewel Isobel Jewell |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1932–1972 |
Spouse(s) |
Paul Marion (1941-1943) (divorced) Owen Crump (1936-?) (divorced)[1] |
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, and Gone With the Wind.
Early life and career
Born in Shoshoni, Fremont County, Wyoming, Jewell was a Broadway actress who achieved immediate success and glowing critical reviews in two productions, Up Pops the Devil (1930) and Blessed Event (1932).
She was brought to Hollywood by Warner Brothers for the film version of the latter. Jewell appeared in a variety of supporting roles during the early 1930s. She played stereotypical gangster's women in such films as Manhattan Melodrama (1934) and Marked Woman (1937). She was well received playing against type, as an innocent seamstress sentenced to death on the guillotine, in A Tale of Two Cities (1935).
Her most significant role was as the prostitute Gloria Stone in Lost Horizon (1937). In the mid to late 1930s, Jewell was seen at nightclubs with William Hopper (who appeared on Perry Mason and was the son of gossip columnist Hedda Hopper and stage star DeWolf Hopper).
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 also performed in radio dramas in the 1950s, including This is Your FBI.
In 1972, she appeared opposite Edie Sedgwick in the film Ciao! Manhattan. Her final film was the B movie Sweet Kill (1973), the directorial debut of future Academy Award winner Curtis Hanson.
Death
Jewell died in Los Angeles, California, aged 64, from undisclosed causes. Her ashes were buried in the Pacific Ocean.[2]
She was recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to motion pictures.
Filmography
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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1932 | Blessed Event | Dorothy Lane | Uncredited |
1933 | The Crime of the Century | Bridge Player | Uncredited |
Bondage | Beulah | ||
Beauty for Sale | Hortense | Credited as Isobel Jewell | |
Bombshell | Lily, Junior's Girl Friend | Credited as Isobel Jewell | |
Day of Reckoning | Kate Lovett | ||
Advice to the Lovelorn | Rose | ||
The Women in His Life | Catherine 'Cathy' Watson | ||
Counsellor at Law | Bessie Green | ||
Design for Living | Plunkett's Stenographer | ||
1934 | Men in White | Scenes deleted | |
Let's Be Ritzy | Betty | ||
Manhattan Melodrama | Annabelle | ||
Here Comes the Groom | Angy | ||
She Had to Choose | Sally Bates | ||
Evelyn Prentice | Judith Wilson | ||
I've Been Around | Sally Van Loan | ||
1935 | Shadow of Doubt | Inez 'Johnny' Johnson - singer | |
Times Square Lady | 'Babe' Sweeney | ||
The Casino Murder Case | Amelia Llewellyn | ||
Mad Love | Marianne | Scenes deleted | |
A Tale of Two Cities | Seamstress | ||
1936 | Ceiling Zero | Lou Clarke | |
Dancing Feet | Mabel Henry | ||
The Leathernecks Have Landed | Brooklyn | ||
Big Brown Eyes | Bessie Blair | ||
Small Town Girl | Emily 'Em' Brannan | ||
36 Hours to Kill | Jeanie Benson | ||
The Man Who Lived Twice | Peggy Russell | ||
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie | Lilli Eipper | ||
Go West, Young Man | Gladys | ||
Career Woman | Gracie Clay | ||
1937 | Lost Horizon | Gloria | |
Marked Woman | Emmy Lou Eagan | ||
Love on Toast | Belle Huntley | ||
1938 | Swing It, Sailor! | Myrtle Montrose | |
The Crowd Roars | Mrs. Martin | ||
1939 | They Asked for It | Molly Herkimer | |
Missing Daughters | Peggy | ||
Gone with the Wind | Emmy Slattery | ||
1940 | Oh Johnny, How You Can Love | Gertie | |
'Northwest Passage' (Book I -- Rogers' Rangers) | Jennie Coit | ||
Irene | Jane McGee | ||
Babies for Sale | Edith Drake | ||
Scatterbrain | Esther Harrington | ||
Marked Men | Linda Harkness | ||
Little Men | Stella | ||
1941 | High Sierra | Blonde | |
For Beauty's Sake | Amy Devore | ||
1943 | The Leopard Man | Maria - Fortune Teller | |
The Seventh Victim | Frances Fallon | ||
Danger! Women at Work | Marie | ||
The Falcon and the Co-eds | Mary Phoebus | ||
1944 | The Merry Monahans | Rose Monahan | |
1945 | Steppin' in Society | Jenny the Juke | |
Sensation Hunters | Mae | ||
1946 | Badman's Territory | Belle Starr | |
1947 | Born to Kill | Laury Palmer | |
The Bishop's Wife | Hysterical mother | ||
1948 | Michael O'Halloran | Mrs. Laura Nelson | |
The Snake Pit | Ward 33 Inmate | Uncredited | |
Unfaithfully Yours | First Telephone Operator | Uncredited | |
Belle Starr's Daughter | Belle Starr | ||
1949 | The Story of Molly X | Mrs. Mack—Prison Laundry Matron | Uncredited |
1952 | The Adventures of Kit Carson | Mary Barker | 1 episode |
Fireside Theatre | 1 episode | ||
The Unexpected | Sister | 1 episode | |
Mr. & Mrs. North | 1 episode | ||
1953 | Man in the Attic | Katy | |
1954 | Drum Beat | Lily White | |
1955 | Treasury Men in Action | 1 episode | |
1956 | Dr. Christian | Mae | 1 episode |
1957 | Bernardine | Mrs. McDuff | |
Climax! | Actress | 1 episode | |
1961 | The Aquanauts | Miss Port | 1 episode |
Lock Up | 1 episode | ||
1962 | The Untouchables | Sophie | 1 episode |
1964 | Kraft Suspense Theatre | Mrs. Lyons | 1 episode |
1965 | Gunsmoke | Mme. Ahr | 1 episode |
1972 | Ciao! Manhattan | Mummy | |
1973 | Sweet Kill | Mrs. Cole |
References
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