Isabel Jewell
Acting
Biography
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
Born: July 19, 1907
Place of Birth: Shoshone, Wyoming, USA
Known For
Filmography
as Mummy
as Mrs. Cole
as Self
as Ruby McDuff
as Madame Ahr
as Lily White
as Katy
as Belle Starr
as Mrs Laura Nelson
as Hysterical Mother
as Laury Palmer
as Belle Starr
as Mae
as Jenny the Juke
as Rose
as Mary Phoebus
as Marie
as Frances Fallon
as Maria the Fortune Teller
as Amy Devore
as Blonde
as Stella
as Linda Harkness
as Esther Harrington
as Edith Drake
as Jane McGee
as Jennie Coit
as Emmy Slattery
as Peggy
as Mrs. Martin
as Myrtle Montrose
as Belle Huntley
as Emmy Lou Eagan
as Gloria Stone
as Gracie Clay
as Gladys
as Lilli Eipper
as Peggy Russell
as Jeanie Benson
as Emily 'Em' Brannan
as Bessie Blair
as Brooklyn
as Mabel Henry
as Lou Clarke
as The Seamstress
as Marianne (scenes deleted)
as Amelia
as Babe
as Sally Van Loan
as Inez
as Judith Wilson
as Sally Bates
as Angy
as Annabelle
as Betty
as Plunkett's Stenographer
as Bessie Green
as Catherine Watson
as Rose
as Kate Lovett
as Nellie, Junior's Girlfriend
as Hortense
as Beulah
as Bridge Player (uncredited)
as Dorothy Lane