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Years active
  
1917-1972

Name
  
Isabel Jeans

Role
  
Film actress


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Born
  
16 September 1891 (
1891-09-16
)

Died
  
September 4, 1985, London, United Kingdom

Spouse
  
Gilbert Wakefield (m. 1920–1963), Claude Rains (m. 1913–1915)

Siblings
  
Ursula Jeans, Desmond Jeans

Movies
  
Easy Virtue, Gigi, Downhill, Suspicion, The Magic Christian

Similar People
  
Ursula Jeans, Graham Cutts, Claude Rains, Joseph McGrath, Michael Balcon

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Isabel Jeans (16 September 1891 – 4 September 1985) was an English stage and film actress known for her roles in several Alfred Hitchcock films and her portrayal of Aunt Alicia in the 1958 musical film Gigi, among others.

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Early life and career

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Born in London, Jeans was the daughter of an art critic.

She planned to become a singer but began her career on the London stage in 1908 at age 15, at the invitation of Herbert Beerbohm Tree. An early Broadway appearance was in The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife in January 1915 and as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream in February 1915. She played Lady Mercia Merivale in the London musical hit Kissing Time (1919). She appeared in a production of James Elroy Flecker's Hassan at His Majesty's Theatre in London in 1923. Incidental music for the play was by Frederick Delius, and the ballet in the House-of-the-Moving Walls was created by Fokine. In 1924, she appeared in Ivor Novello's play The Rat at the Prince of Wales's Theatre in London. The following year, she was in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play, The Rivals at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, together with Claude Rains, his ex-wife Marie Hemingway, and his then-current wife, Beatrix Thomson.

Films and later years

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She appeared in major roles in two Alfred Hitchcock silent films, Downhill (1927) and Easy Virtue (1928) and various other British films, before playing a number of grande dames in Hollywood films starting in 1937, such as Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941), as well as in such films as Banana Ridge (1942), Gigi (1958) and A Breath of Scandal (1960).

Later stage roles included a revival of The Happy Hypocrite in London in 1936. Later Broadway roles were Crystal Wetherby in The Man in Possession in 1930 and Mrs. Emmeline Lucas in Make Way for Lucia in 1948. English productions included Anton Chekhov's plays, The Seagull, (1949 at the Lyric Theatre, London and then St. James's Theatre), Jean Anouilh's play, "Ardele" (1951 at the Vaudeville Theatre), Noël Coward's play, The Vortex (1952 at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith), T.S. Eliot's play, The Confidential Clerk (1953 at the Lyric Theatre), and William Congreve's play, The Double Dealer (1959 at the Old Vic Theatre, and other plays there that season, with Judi Dench). She also acted in West End productions of plays by Oscar Wilde, including Lady Windermere's Fan (1945 at the Haymarket Theatre, directed by Sir John Gielgud; and 1966 at the Phoenix Theatre (London)), A Woman of No Importance (1953 at the Savoy Theatre) and as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (1968 at the Haymarket Theatre).

Family and personal life

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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 married twice: first to the actor Claude Rains, from 1913 to 1918; and then to the barrister and playwright Gilbert Edward "Gilley" Wakefield, from 1920 until his death in 1963. She enjoyed horse racing and poker.

Filmography

Actress
1972
Clouds of Witness (TV Mini Series) as
Dowager Duchess
- Episode #1.5 (1972) - Dowager Duchess
- Episode #1.3 (1972) - Dowager Duchess
- Episode #1.2 (1972) - Dowager Duchess
1969
The Magic Christian as
Dame Agnes Grand
1966
Seven Deadly Sins (TV Series) as
Mrs. Harlow
- File on Harry Jordan (1966) - Mrs. Harlow
1963
Heavens Above! as
Lady Despard
1961
Victoria Regina (TV Movie) as
Mistress of the Robes
1961
ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) as
Countess de Breville
- Boule de Suif (1961) - Countess de Breville
1960
A Breath of Scandal as
Princess Eugénie
1959
The Third Man (TV Series) as
Dame Lavinia
- Toys of the Dead (1959) - Dame Lavinia
1959
Playhouse 90 (TV Series) as
Maude Lowder
- The Wings of the Dove (1959) - Maude Lowder
1958
Gigi as
Aunt Alicia
1957
It Happened in Rome as
Cynthia
1953
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) as
Lady Elizabeth Mulhammer
- The Confidential Clerk (1955) - Lady Elizabeth Mulhammer
- The Confidential Clerk (1953) - Lady Elizabeth Mulhammer
1948
Elizabeth of Ladymead as
Mother in 1903
1945
Great Day as
Lady Mott
1942
Banana Ridge as
Sue Long
1941
Suspicion as
Mrs. Newsham
1939
Man About Town as
Mme. Dubois
1939
Good Girls Go to Paris as
Caroline Brand
1938
Hard to Get as
Mrs. Richards
1938
Youth Takes a Fling as
Mrs. Merrivale
1938
Garden of the Moon as
Mrs. Lornay
1938
Secrets of an Actress as
Marian Plantagenet
1938
Fools for Scandal as
Lady Paula Malverton
1937
Tovarich as
Fermonde Dupont
1935
The Crouching Beast as
The Pellegrini
1935
Loves of a Dictator as
Von Eyben
1934
Rolling in Money as
Duchess of Braceborough
1932
Sally Bishop as
Dolly Durlacher
1929
Power Over Men as
Marion Delacour
1929
The Return of the Rat as
Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
1927
Further Adventures of a Flag Officer as
Pauline
1927
Easy Virtue as
Larita Filton
1927
Downhill as
Julia Fotheringale
1926
The Triumph of the Rat as
Zelie de Chaumet
1926
Windsor Castle (Short)
1925
The Rat as
Zelie de Chaumet
1921
Romance and Reality (Short)
1921
Tilly of Bloomsbury as
Sylvia Mainwaring
1917
The Profligate as
Janet Preece
Thanks
2006
Modern Love (special thanks)
Self
1959
Words and Music (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #2.2 (1959) - Self
1959
Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (TV Series) as
Self
- J (1959) - Self
Archive Footage
2015
True Fear: The Making of Psycho (Documentary)
1938
Breakdowns of 1938 (Documentary short) as
Paula (Fools for Scandal outtakes) (uncredited)

References

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