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Isabel Jewell

Isabel Jewell

Actor · 1907 – 1972 · Shoshone, Wyoming, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Isabel Jewell (July 19, 1907 – April 5, 1972) was an American actress most active in the 1930s and early 1940s. Some of her most famous films were Ceiling Zero, Marked Woman, A Tale of Two Cities, and Gone With the Wind. After years in theater stock companies, including an 87-week stint in Lincoln, Nebraska, she hit the big time after getting a part on Broadway in Up Pops the Devil (1930). She received glowing critical reviews for Blessed Event (1932) as well. Jewell's film debut came in Blessed Event (1932). She had been brought to Hollywood by Warner Brothers for the film version of Up Pops the Devil. Jewell gained other supporting roles, appearing in a variety of films in the early 1930s. She played stereotypical gangsters' women in such films as Manhattan Melodrama (1934) and Marked Woman (1937). She was well received playing against type, as the seamstress sentenced to death on the guillotine along with Sydney Carton (Ronald Colman in A Tale of Two Cities (1935). Her most significant role was as the prostitute Gloria Stone in Lost Horizon (1937). Jewell's films included Gone with the Wind (1939) (in the role of "that white trash, Emmy Slattery"), Northwest Passage (1940), High Sierra (1941), and the low-budget The Leopard Man (1943). By the end of the 1940s, her roles had reduced in significance to the degree that her performances were often uncredited, e.g. The Snake Pit. She performed in radio dramas in the 1950s, including This is Your FBI. In 1972, Jewell appeared opposite Edie Sedgwick in the film Ciao! Manhattan. Her final film was the B movie Sweet Kill (1973), the directorial debut of Curtis Hanson, a future Academy Award winner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isabel Jewell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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  • Movie7.9

    Gone with the Wind

    1939 · 4.5K votes

  • Movie7.1

    The Bishop's Wife

    1947 · 287 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Lost Horizon

    1937 · 252 votes

  • Movie7.1

    High Sierra

    1941 · 367 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Mad Love

    1935 · 126 votes

  • Movie6.8

    A Tale of Two Cities

    1935 · 85 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Manhattan Melodrama

    1934 · 81 votes

  • Movie4.1

    Sweet Kill

    1972 · 9 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Design for Living

    1933 · 216 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Born to Kill

    1947 · 93 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Big Brown Eyes

    1936 · 29 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Marked Woman

    1937 · 79 votes

  • Movie6.4

    The Seventh Victim

    1943 · 162 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Evelyn Prentice

    1934 · 31 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Man in the Attic

    1953 · 54 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Northwest Passage

    1940 · 64 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Badman's Territory

    1946 · 13 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Drum Beat

    1954 · 35 votes

  • Movie6.1

    36 Hours to Kill

    1936 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.7
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  • Movie5.6

    Marked Men

    1940 · 7 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Crime of the Century

    1933 · 12 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Bombshell

    1933 · 58 votes

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  • TV6.7

    Gunsmoke

    1955 · 119 votes

  • TV6.4

    Lock-Up

    1959 · 7 votes

  • TV5.0

    Mr. & Mrs. North

    1952 · 7 votes