7.1
7.1
Design for Living
1933
as Plunkett's Stenographer
Isabel Jewell
Acting
Born:July 19, 1907
Died:April 5, 1972(aged 64)
Birthplace:Shoshone, Wyoming, USA
Nationality:United States
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CommunityBiography
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
Filmography (64 movies)
7.1
7.1
High Sierra
1941
as Blonde
7.0
7.0
Mad Love
1935
as Marianne (scenes deleted)
7.0
7.0
Beauty for Sale
1933
as Hortense
7.0
7.0
Manhattan Melodrama
1934
as Annabelle
7.0
7.0
Advice to the Lovelorn
1933
as Rose
7.0
7.0
Bernardine
1957
as Ruby McDuff
7.0
7.0
Lost Horizon
1937
as Gloria Stone
6.8
6.8
A Tale of Two Cities
1935
as The Seamstress
6.7
6.7
The Man Who Lived Twice
1936
as Peggy Russell
6.7
6.7
Born to Kill
1947
as Laury Palmer
6.5
6.5
Marked Woman
1937
as Emmy Lou Eagan
6.5
6.5
The Leopard Man
1943
as Maria the Fortune Teller
6.5
6.5
The Casino Murder Case
1935
as Amelia
6.5
6.5
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
1943
as Mary Phoebus
6.5
6.5
The Seventh Victim
1943
as Frances Fallon
6.5
6.5
The Crowd Roars
1938
as Mrs. Martin
6.5
6.5
Blessed Event
1932
as Dorothy Lane
6.5
6.5
Evelyn Prentice
1934
as Judith Wilson
6.5
6.5
Northwest Passage
1940
as Jennie Coit
6.4
6.4
Bombshell
1933
as Nellie, Junior's Girlfriend
6.4
6.4
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936
as Lilli Eipper
6.4
6.4
Counsellor at Law
1933
as Bessie Green
6.3
6.3
The Crime of the Century
1933
as Bridge Player (uncredited)
6.3
6.3
Big Brown Eyes
1936
as Bessie Blair
6.2
6.2
Shadow of Doubt
1935
as Inez
6.0
6.0
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
1934
6.0
6.0
Career Woman
1936
as Gracie Clay
6.0
6.0
Danger! Women at Work
1943
as Marie
6.0
6.0
Times Square Lady
1935
as Babe
6.0
6.0
Irene
1940
as Jane McGee
6.0
6.0
Drum Beat
1954
as Lily White
5.9
5.9
Small Town Girl
1936
as Emily 'Em' Brannan
5.7
5.7
Badman's Territory
1946
as Belle Starr
5.7
5.7
Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!
1940
as Gertie - Truck Stop Waitress
5.5
5.5
Ceiling Zero
1936
as Lou Clarke
5.5
5.5
Babies for Sale
1940
as Edith Drake
5.5
5.5
Love on Toast
1937
as Belle Huntley
5.4
5.4
Ciao! Manhattan
1973
as Mummy
5.4
5.4
Man in the Attic
1953
as Katy
5.3
5.3
36 Hours to Kill
1936
as Jeanie Benson
5.3
5.3
Go West Young Man
1936
as Gladys
5.2
5.2
Dancing Feet
1936
as Mabel Henry
5.0
5.0
Scatterbrain
1940
as Esther Harrington
5.0
5.0
Marked Men
1940
as Linda Harkness
5.0
5.0
The Leathernecks Have Landed
1936
as Brooklyn
5.0
5.0
The Merry Monahans
1944
as Rose
5.0
5.0
Swing It, Sailor!
1938
as Myrtle Montrose
5.0
5.0
She Had to Choose
1934
as Sally Bates
4.4
4.4
Day of Reckoning
1933
as Kate Lovett
4.4
4.4
Sensation Hunters
1945
as Mae
4.1
4.1
Belle Starr's Daughter
1948
as Belle Starr
4.0
4.0
Here Comes the Groom
1934
as Angy
3.5
3.5
Sweet Kill
1972
as Mrs. Cole
3.5
3.5
The Women in His Life
1933
as Catherine Watson
3.0
3.0
Missing Daughters
1939
as Peggy
3.0
3.0
They Asked For It
1939
as Molly Herkimer
2.7
2.7
I've Been Around
1935
as Sally Van Loan
For Beauty's Sake
1941
as Amy Devore
Bondage
1933
as Beulah
Steppin' in Society
1945
as Jenny the Juke
The New Cinema
1968
as Self
Michael O'Halloran
1948
as Mrs Laura Nelson
Let’s Be Ritzy
1934
as Betty
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