Isabel JeansFilmography

Born:: September 16, 1891 in London, England, UK
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: British actress Isabel Jeans was 18 when she made her London stage debut in 1909. Her first film was 1917's The Profligate. The graceful, sophisticated Jeans became a Broadway critics' darling in the 1920s and 1930s by virtue of her performances in such plays as The Road to Rome and The Man in...Read More

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The Magic Christian

Actors: Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Isabel Jeans, Christopher Lee, Caroline Blakiston, Raquel Welch

Synopsis: This zany British comedy finds a homeless hobo (Ringo Starr) being adopted by the world's richest man, Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers). Setting sail on the luxury liner The Magic Christian, Sir Grand tests the limit of human avarice. With money to motivate the greedy, Laurence Harvey combines his Read More

1969
Heavens Above!

Actors: Peter Sellers, Bernard Miles, Cecil Parker, Eric Sykes, Irene Handl, Miriam Karlin, Isabel Jeans

Synopsis: Considered a bit too sacrilegious for general consumption in 1963, the Boulting brothers' Heavens Above was simply ahead of its time, and has since accrued a loyal and vocal following. Peter Sellers plays an idealistic British reverend with a bad habit of telling the truth at all times. He also Read More

1963
A Breath of Scandal

Actors: Sophia Loren, Maurice Chevalier, John Gavin, Angela Lansbury, Milly Vitale

Synopsis: Based on the Ferenc Molnar play Olympia, A Breath of Scandal serves as an elegant vehicle for a ravishing Sophia Loren. The star plays Princess Olympia, who despite her station in life cannot resist the urge to satisfy her sexual appetites. Exiled to the countryside, Olympia falls in love with Read More

1960
It Happened in Rome

Synopsis: It Happened in Rome -- as well as in Venice, Florence, and points in between in this frothy excursion into beautiful Italy. The slight story concerns two young girls -- the German Hilde (Inge Schoener) and the French Josette (Isabelle Corey) -- who are hitching through the countryside. Vacationing Read More

1959
Gigi

Actors: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor, Isabel Jeans

Synopsis: Leslie Caron plays Gigi, a young girl raised by two veteran Parisian courtesans (Hermione Gingold and Isabel Jeans) to be the mistress of wealthy young Gaston (Louis Jourdan). When Gaston falls in love with Gigi and asks her to be his wife, Jeans is appalled: never has anyone in their family ever Read More

1958
Souvenir d'Italie

Actors: June Laverick, Inge Schoener, Isabelle Corey, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: The superb cinematography of Aldo Tonti adds immeasureably to the enjoyment of Souvenir D'Italie. The story revolves around three lovely young ladies: Margaret (June Laverick) from England, Hilde (Ingeborg Schoener) from Germany and Josette (Isabelle Corey) from France. Hitchhiking through Read More

4/18/57
Gigi

Actors: Yvonne de Bray, Danièle Delorme, Gaby Morlay, Frank Villard, Jean Tissier

Synopsis: This French film version of Colette's best-selling novel Gigi predated both the 1950 stage adaptation and the 1958 Hollywood musical of the same name. Set in fin de siecle Paris, The story is the familiar one about 16-year-old Gigi (Daniele Delorme), a waif-like creature who is trained to become a Read More

1949
Elizabeth of Ladymead

Actors: Anna Neagle, Hugh Williams, Michael Laurence, Bernard Lee, Nicholas Phipps

Synopsis: Fans of British film star Anna Neagle had a field day with her bravura Technicolor vehicle Elizabeth of Ladymead--though not enough fans showed up back in 1948 to make the film a success. Neagle portrays four different characters from four different historical periods, each named Elizabeth. The Read More

1948
Great Day

Actors: Eric Portman, Flora Robson, Sheila Sim, Isabel Jeans, Walter Fitzgerald

Synopsis: American first lady Eleanor Roosevelt's impending visit to a tiny English country village is the motivation of the Anglo-American coproduction Great Day. As the villagers prepare for their prestigious guest, all sorts of internal squabbles and personal foibles rise to the surface. The story Read More

1946
Banana Ridge

Synopsis: Another cheeky entry from the Aldwych Theatre farceurs, Banana Ridge is based on a play by Aldwych perennial Ben Travers. Alfred Drayton plays a wealthy, respected gentleman suddenly confronted with old flame Isabel Jeans. She shows up out of nowhere, claiming that her illegitimate son is his. The Read More

1941
Suspicion

Actors: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty

Synopsis: Wealthy, sheltered Joan Fontaine is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Cary Grant. Though warned that Grant is little more than a fortune-hunter, Fontaine marries him anyway. She remains loyal to her irresponsible husband as he plows his way from one disreputable business scheme to Read More

1941
Man About Town

Actors: Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold, Binnie Barnes, Monty Woolley

Synopsis: Jack Benny goes to London in this frothy musical. He plays a Broadway producer and while in London begins pining for the love of glamorous singer Dorothy Lamour. Unfortunately, she finds him unattractive. Wanting to make her jealous, Benny pursues a pair of women who are trying to make their Read More

1939
Good Girls Go to Paris

Actors: Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Alan Curtis, Joan Perry, Isabel Jeans

Synopsis: Spunky Joan Blondell is practically the whole show in the diverting comedy Good Girls Go to Paris. Blondell is cast as ambitious college-campus waitress Jenny Swanson, who yearns to see the sights in Gay Paree. She gets her chance by latching onto British exchange professor Ronald Brooke (Melvyn Douglas Read More

1939
Hard to Get

Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Dick Powell, Charles Winninger, Melville Cooper, Allen Jenkins, Bonita Granville

Synopsis: Dick Powell had already played the poor guy who falls for rich gal in Happiness Ahead (34); Hard to Get is a far superior film in this vein, and with better songs to boot. The wealthy lady in this film is Olivia de Havilland, who at this point in her career specialized in spoiled heiresses. Dick Powell Read More

1938
Youth Takes a Fling

Actors: Andrea Leeds, Joel McCrea, Frank Jenks, Dorothea Kent, Isabel Jeans

Synopsis: Andrea Leeds, whose career had shifted into hyperdrive after her brilliant performance in Stage Door (1937), stars in the Universal programmer Youth Takes a Fling. Leeds plays Helen Brown, a New York City department-store salesgirl who falls in love with Kansas City truckdriver Joe Meadows (Joel Read More

1938
Fools for Scandal

Actors: Carole Lombard, Fernand Gravey, Ralph Bellamy, Allen Jenkins, Isabel Jeans

Synopsis: In her only Warner Bros. starring film, Carole Lombard plays a Hollywood movie actress who makes the park-bench acquaintance of an impoverished French marquis (Fernand Gravet). Hoping to coerce Carole into marriage, the nobleman poses as a butler and enters her household. His plan is to compromise Read More

1938
Secrets of an Actress

Actors: Kay Francis, George Brent, Ian Hunter, Gloria Dickson, Isabel Jeans

Synopsis: Kay Francis fights off tears, deprivations and a mediocre script in Warner Bros.' Secrets of an Actress. La Francis plays Fay Carter, a popular Broadway star romantically involved with architect Dick Orr (George Brent), who has put up the money for her latest production. Problem is, Dick is Read More

1938
Garden of the Moon

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Margaret Lindsay, John Payne, Johnnie Davis, Melville Cooper

Synopsis: The Garden of the Moon is a fancy New York nightclub owned by Pat O'Brien. Margaret Lindsay (replacing a recalcitrant Bette Davis) is the girl who comes between O'Brien and his bandleader, John Payne. The duplicitous O'Brien spends most of his screen time figuring out various underhanded means to Read More

1938
Tovarich

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone, Anita Louise, Melville Cooper

Synopsis: Two members of the Russian monarchy pose as French servants while hiding the Czar's fortune. This unlikely plot is at the core of this successful 1937 Hollywood comedy-drama starring the French-born Charles Boyer as Prince Mikail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff. The prince and his wife, Grand Duchess Read More

1937
Loves of a Dictator

Actors: Clive Brook, Madeleine Carroll, Emlyn Williams, Alfred Drayton, Nicholas Hannen

1935
The Dictator

Actors: Clive Brook, Madeleine Carroll, Emlyn Williams, Alfred Drayton, Nicholas Hannen

Synopsis: In this romantic costume drama, a man in the service of a king finds that falling in love with the queen can carry a high price. Struensee (Clive Brook) is a doctor from Hamburg who is called upon to treat Denmark's King Charles VII (Emlyn Williams) while the potentate visits Germany. The grateful Read More

1935
The Crouching Beast

Actors: Wynne Gibson, Fritz Kortner, Richard Bird, Andrews Englemann, Isabel Jeans

Synopsis: The Crouching Beast was based on Clubfoot, an espionage novel by Valentine Williams. Set in 1915 Constantinople, the story is motivated by the sinister activities of Turkish secret agent Ahmed Bey (Fritz Kortner), better known as Clubfoot. Wynne Gibson stars as American newspaperwoman Gail Dunbar Read More

1935
Rolling in Money

1934
Sally Bishop

Actors: Joan Barry, Harold Huth, Isabel Jeans, Kay Hammond

Synopsis: In this romance, a typist is the secret mistress of a wealthy man. After three years of illicit romance, he suddenly dumps her for the love of a wealthy heiress. The broken-hearted girl goes on with her life and falls in love with another, but when her original lover returns to beg forgiveness Read More

1932
Power over Men

Synopsis: In this British mystery, a diplomat's wife, thinking she is protecting her lover, takes the rap for her husband's murder. It is later revealed that a spy was the real culprit. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1929
The Return of the Rat

Synopsis: This is the final episode in the three part Rat series. This time, the Rat decides to go straight to marry his beloved. Unfortunately, the relationship disintegrates, and the Rat heads right back for the underworld. There he falls in love with a barmaid, but then finds he cannot escape the Read More

1929
When Boys Leave Home

1928
Downhill

Synopsis: Downhill is an apt title for this disappointing Alfred Hitchcock silent feature. Ivor Novello plays the black sheep of a prosperous family, whose life begins its downward spiral when he is expelled from school after shielding a friend from punishment. Following several desultory adventures Read More

1927
Easy Virtue

Synopsis: In the early stages of his directing career, Alfred Hitchcock made a number of hackneyed studio films which barely resemble the works he would go on to direct. The society drama Easy Virtue is one of the nine silent movies Hitchcock directed. The film opens with Larita Filton posing for her Read More

1927
Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant

Actors: Henry Edwards, Fred Raynham, Fewlass Llewellyn, Lillian Oldiand, Isabel Jeans

Synopsis: W. P. Drury's popular literary and theatrical piece The Flag Lieutenant spawned this 1927 sequel. Henry Edwards once more essays the role of Lt. Dick Lascelles, who in the 1926 filmization of Flag Lieutenant managed to clear himself from accusations of cowardice. This time, Lt. Lascelles saves a Read More

1927
The Rat

Synopsis: Ivor Novello and Isabel Jeans co-star with Mae Marsh, Marie Ault, and James Lindsay in this crime drama. The courtesan Zeile de Chaumet takes the murder rap to protect the man she loves. Robert Scholtz and Julie Suedo also appear in this feature highlighted by scenes from the Follies Bergere. Read More

1925
The Profligate

1917