Isabel Jewell

Known for ActingBorn 1907-07-19Died 1972-04-05Shoshone, 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 WikipediaRead more

Movies & web series

For Beauty's Sake

Let’s Be Ritzy

Michael O'Halloran

Gone with the Wind

Bernardine

Scatterbrain

Swing It, Sailor!

The Man Who Lived Twice

Hollywood on Parade No. B-1

Advice to the Lovelorn

The Bishop's Wife

Beauty for Sale

High Sierra

Design for Living

Manhattan Melodrama

The Crowd Roars

Mad Love

The Leathernecks Have Landed

Times Square Lady

Lost Horizon

Bondage

Gunsmoke

A Tale of Two Cities

Blessed Event

Born to Kill

The Casino Murder Case

The Falcon and the Co-Eds

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

Lock-Up

The Crime of the Century

Northwest Passage

Marked Woman

Shadow of Doubt

The Leopard Man

Danger! Women at Work

Irene

Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!

The Seventh Victim

Evelyn Prentice

Here Comes the Groom

Bombshell

Counsellor at Law

Big Brown Eyes

Badman's Territory

Babies for Sale

Drum Beat

Steppin' in Society

36 Hours to Kill