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 Hitchcocks Suspicion 1941 and Gigi 1958 In 1968 she played Lady Bracknell in Wildes The Importance of Being Earnest at Londons 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia