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Isabel Jeans
from the trailer for the film Tovarich (1937)BornSeptember 16, 1891
London, EnglandDied4 September 1985 (aged 93)
London, England
Isabel Jeans (September 16, 1891 – September 4, 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).
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:
Isabel Jeans
from the trailer for the film Tovarich (1937)BornSeptember 16, 1891
London, EnglandDied4 September 1985 (aged 93)
London, England
Isabel Jeans (September 16, 1891 – September 4, 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).
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
- 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)
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