Isabel Jeans
Actor · 1891 – 1985 · London, England, UK
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's The Importance of Being Earnest at London's Theatre Royal Haymarket, which ran for nine months to packed houses. Other members of the cast were Pauline Collins, Daniel Massey, Helen Weir, Robert Eddison and Dame Flora Robson. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isabel Jeans, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie7.1MysteryRomanceA 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.
Suspicion
1941 · 922 votes
Movie6.2ComedyRomanceA 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.
Gigi
1958 · 357 votes
Movie5.8ComedySir 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.
The Magic Christian
1969 · 49 votes
Movie5.5ComedyDramaA European princess jeopardizes her crown when she falls for an American millionaire.
A Breath of Scandal
1960 · 21 votes
Movie5.8DocumentaryComedyFlubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
Breakdowns of 1938
1938 · 4 votes
Movie5.8RomanceComedyThree girls are on a hitchhiking trip through northern Italy, the riviera, Venice, Pisa and Rome.
Movie6.6ComedyA 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.
Heavens Above!
1963 · 28 votes
Movie6.4RomanceComedyWhen 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.
Tovarich
1937 · 5 votes
Movie8.0DramaHistoryJulie 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.
Victoria Regina
1961 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0HorrorDrama
British horror drama short from 1926.
Windsor Castle
1926 · 1 votes
Movie5.5RomanceComedyMcCrea 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.
Youth Takes a Fling
1938 · 2 votes
Movie5.3RomanceDramaUnjustly 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.
Easy Virtue
1928 · 87 votes
Movie7.1ComedyJenny 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.
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939 · 11 votes
Movie6.3ComedyRomanceWhen 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.
Hard to Get
1938 · 6 votes
Movie5.7DramaWhen 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.
Downhill
1927 · 101 votes
Movie7.4DramaAn impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
Great Day
1945 · 6 votes
Movie4.5ComedyMusicProducer 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.
Man About Town
1939 · 5 votes
Movie6.8ComedyMusicDon 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.
Garden of the Moon
1938 · 6 votes
Movie6.2ComedyWhen Susie Long appears, together with her 20 year old son, Pink and Pound are thrown into confusion that one of them could be his father.
Banana Ridge
1942 · 5 votes
Movie6.0DramaRomanceTwo architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.
Secrets of an Actress
1938 · 6 votes
Movie6.6RomanceDramaPierre 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...
The Triumph of the Rat
1926 · 5 votes
Movie6.6CrimeRomanceThe 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....
The Return of the Rat
1929 · 5 votes
Movie9.0Adventure'Shanghai. Lieutenant escapes from spies and regains stolen plans.' (British Film Catalogue)
Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant
1928 · 1 votes
Movie8.5CrimeDramaWhen bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' , boy-king of the Paris underworld, and the innocent Odile. Love, life and jewels are risked and lost in this powerful romantic melodrama as the four characters' lives are changed by this chance encounter for ever.
The Rat
1925 · 2 votes