Acting

Isabel Jeans

Born September 15, 1891 · London, England, UK

Died September 4, 1985 · aged 93

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Isabel Jeans (16 September 1891 – 4 September 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). In 1968 she played Lady Bracknell in Wilde…

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Suspicion

Suspicion · 1941

MovieMysteryRomance

A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.

Gigi

MovieComedyRomance

A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.

A Breath of Scandal

A Breath of Scandal · 1960

A Breath of Scandal

MovieComedyDrama

A European princess jeopardizes her crown when she falls for an American millionaire.

The Magic Christian

The Magic Christian · 1969

The Magic Christian

Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought.

It Happened in Rome

It Happened in Rome · 1957

It Happened in Rome

MovieRomanceComedy

Three girls are on a hitchhiking trip through northern Italy, the riviera, Venice, Pisa and Rome.

Tovarich

Tovarich · 1937

MovieRomanceComedy

When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.

Easy Virtue

Easy Virtue · 1928

MovieRomanceDrama

Unjustly accused of adultery in a scandalous divorce, Larita Filton flees to the French Riviera. She soon falls in love with a young Englishman, John Whittaker, and begins anew under an assumed name. But when John brings her home to his disapproving family, Larita’s past begins to resurface.

Fools for Scandal

Fools for Scandal · 1938

Fools for Scandal

An incognito Hollywood star in Paris meets a penniless nobleman who follows her to London.

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Suspicion

Suspicion · 1941

MovieMysteryRomance

A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.

Mrs. Newsham

Gigi

MovieComedyRomance

A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.

Aunt Alicia

A Breath of Scandal

A Breath of Scandal · 1960

A Breath of Scandal

MovieComedyDrama

A European princess jeopardizes her crown when she falls for an American millionaire.

Princess Eugénie

The Magic Christian

The Magic Christian · 1969

The Magic Christian

Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought.

Dame Agnes Grand

It Happened in Rome

It Happened in Rome · 1957

It Happened in Rome

MovieRomanceComedy

Three girls are on a hitchhiking trip through northern Italy, the riviera, Venice, Pisa and Rome.

Cynthia

Tovarich

Tovarich · 1937

MovieRomanceComedy

When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.

Fermonde Dupont

Easy Virtue

Easy Virtue · 1928

MovieRomanceDrama

Unjustly accused of adultery in a scandalous divorce, Larita Filton flees to the French Riviera. She soon falls in love with a young Englishman, John Whittaker, and begins anew under an assumed name. But when John brings her home to his disapproving family, Larita’s past begins to resurface.

Larita Filton

Fools for Scandal

Fools for Scandal · 1938

Fools for Scandal

An incognito Hollywood star in Paris meets a penniless nobleman who follows her to London.

Lady Paula Malverton

Heavens Above!

Heavens Above! · 1963

A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, where he immediately horrifies his snobby parishioners by appointing a dustman and a black man as vicar's wardens and throwing open the vicarage to the sprawling, disreputable Smith family, who have just been evicted from their caravan site. He converts the dowager aristocrat to works of absurd charity but he soon has the town and much of the country in uproar.

Lady Despard

Good Girls Go to Paris

Good Girls Go to Paris · 1939

Good Girls Go to Paris

Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.

Caroline Brand

Breakdowns of 1938

Breakdowns of 1938 · 1938

Breakdowns of 1938

MovieDocumentaryComedy

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)

Victoria Regina

Victoria Regina · 1961

Victoria Regina

MovieDramaHistory

Julie Harris portrays the famed Queen Victoria over a 60 year span, from the age of 18 through her romance with Prince Albert through her diamond jubilee in 1897.

Mistress of the Robes

Hard to Get

Hard to Get · 1938

MovieComedyRomance

When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.

Mrs. Henny Richards

Garden of the Moon

Garden of the Moon · 1938

Garden of the Moon

MovieComedyMusic

Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.

Mrs. Lornay

Downhill

Downhill · 1927

When school captain Roddy Berwick takes the blame for his friend’s scandal, he is expelled and disowned by his family. Cast out of his privileged world, Roddy drifts through a series of humiliations—from waiter to penniless actor to gigolo—descending ever further into ruin and self-disgust.

Julia

Secrets of an Actress

Secrets of an Actress · 1938

Secrets of an Actress

MovieDramaRomance

Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.

Miss Marian Plantagenet

Great Day

Great Day · 1945

An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.

Lady Mott

Man About Town

Man About Town · 1939

MovieComedyMusic

Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.

Mme. Dubois

Youth Takes a Fling

Youth Takes a Fling · 1938

Youth Takes a Fling

MovieRomanceComedy

McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.

Mrs. Merrivale

The Return of the Rat

The Return of the Rat · 1929

The Return of the Rat

MovieCrimeRomance

The rich, amoral Zelie is married to Pierre Boucheron, "The Rat" - but her interest in another man is an open secret. Forced to defend his honour, the Rat takes refuge in his old domain of the Paris underworld. But even here he has a rival - and when murder is afoot, the sinister Morel's ambition threatens to cost the Rat dear....

Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron

The Triumph of the Rat

The Triumph of the Rat · 1926

The Triumph of the Rat

MovieRomanceDrama

Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' and a former underworld notoriety, is now living the high life as the kept man of Zelie de Chaumet. But when she learns he is planning to marry another woman, her vengeance pursues him into the murkiest depths of Paris...

Zelie

The Crouching Beast

The Crouching Beast · 1935

The Crouching Beast

In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to pass his information to an American journalist.

The Pellegrini

The Dictator

The Dictator · 1935

MovieHistoryRomance

The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.

Von Eyben

Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant

Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant · 1928

Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant

'Shanghai. Lieutenant escapes from spies and regains stolen plans.' (British Film Catalogue)

Pauline Alexander

Lord Peter Wimsey

Lord Peter Wimsey · 1972

Lord Peter Wimsey

Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detective. These are the TV Mini Series that were produced following the stories in the novels.

Dowager Duchess