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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 19, 1907
Died
April 5, 1972
Place of Birth
Shoshone, Wyoming, USA
Also Known As
- Isabel Jewel
- Isobel Jewell
Isabel Jewell
0.3 Popularity
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
Known For
5.6
Mummy
Ciao! Manhattan
1973
3.9
Mrs. Cole
Sweet Kill
1972
0.0
Self
The New Cinema
1968
3.3
'A Tale of Two Cities' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
6.2
Lock-Up
1959
7.0
Ruby McDuff
Bernardine
1957
6.6
Madame Ahr
Gunsmoke
1955
6.0
Lily White
Drum Beat
1954
5.5
Katy
Man in the Attic
1953
4.3
Mr. & Mrs. North
1952
Credits
Ciao! Manhattan
as Mummy
1973
5.6
Sweet Kill
as Mrs. Cole
1972
3.9
The New Cinema
as Self
1968
0.0
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as 'A Tale of Two Cities' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1961
3.3
Lock-Up
1959
6.2
Bernardine
as Ruby McDuff
1957
7.0
Gunsmoke
as Madame Ahr
1955
6.6
Drum Beat
as Lily White
1954
6.0
Man in the Attic
as Katy
1953
5.5
Mr. & Mrs. North
1952
4.3
Belle Starr's Daughter
as Belle Starr
1948
4.1
Michael O'Halloran
as Mrs Laura Nelson
1948
0.0
The Bishop's Wife
as Hysterical Mother
1947
7.0
Born to Kill
as Laury Palmer
1947
6.7
Badman's Territory
as Belle Starr
1946
5.7
Sensation Hunters
as Mae
1945
4.7
Steppin' in Society
as Jenny the Juke
1945
0.0
The Merry Monahans
as Rose
1944
5.5
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
as Mary Phoebus
1943
6.4
Danger! Women at Work
as Marie
1943
6.0
The Seventh Victim
as Frances Fallon
1943
6.5
The Leopard Man
as Maria the Fortune Teller
1943
6.5
For Beauty's Sake
as Amy Devore
1941
0.0
High Sierra
as Blonde
1941
7.1
Little Men
as Stella
1940
5.6
Marked Men
as Linda Harkness
1940
5.0
Scatterbrain
as Esther Harrington
1940
0.0
Babies for Sale
as Edith Drake
1940
5.5
Irene
as Jane McGee
1940
6.0
Northwest Passage
as Jennie Coit
1940
6.4
🎬
Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!
as Gertie - Truck Stop Waitress
1940
5.7
Gone with the Wind
as Emmy Slattery
1939
7.9
Missing Daughters
as Peggy
1939
3.0
🎬
They Asked For It
as Molly Herkimer
1939
3.0
The Crowd Roars
as Mrs. Martin
1938
6.5
Swing It, Sailor!
as Myrtle Montrose
1938
5.0
Love on Toast
as Belle Huntley
1937
5.5
Marked Woman
as Emmy Lou Eagan
1937
6.5
Lost Horizon
as Gloria Stone
1937
7.0
Career Woman
as Gracie Clay
1936
6.0
Go West Young Man
as Gladys
1936
5.3
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
as Lilli Eipper
1936
6.4
The Man Who Lived Twice
as Peggy Russell
1936
6.7
36 Hours to Kill
as Jeanie Benson
1936
5.3
Small Town Girl
as Emily 'Em' Brannan
1936
6.2
Big Brown Eyes
as Bessie Blair
1936
6.3
The Leathernecks Have Landed
as Brooklyn
1936
5.0
Dancing Feet
as Mabel Henry
1936
5.2
Ceiling Zero
as Lou Clarke
1936
5.6
A Tale of Two Cities
as The Seamstress
1935
6.8
Mad Love
as Marianne (scenes deleted)
1935
7.0
The Casino Murder Case
as Amelia
1935
6.5
Times Square Lady
as Babe
1935
6.0
I've Been Around
as Sally Van Loan
1935
2.5
Shadow of Doubt
as Inez
1935
6.2
Evelyn Prentice
as Judith Wilson
1934
6.7
She Had to Choose
as Sally Bates
1934
5.0
Here Comes the Groom
as Angy
1934
4.0
Manhattan Melodrama
as Annabelle
1934
7.0
Let’s Be Ritzy
as Betty
1934
0.0
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
1934
6.0
Design for Living
as Plunkett's Stenographer
1933
7.1
Counsellor at Law
as Bessie Green
1933
6.6
The Women in His Life
as Catherine Watson
1933
4.0
Advice to the Lovelorn
as Rose
1933
7.0
Day of Reckoning
as Kate Lovett
1933
5.0
Bombshell
as Nellie, Junior's Girlfriend
1933
6.5
Beauty for Sale
as Hortense
1933
7.0
Bondage
as Beulah
1933
0.0
The Crime of the Century
as Bridge Player (uncredited)
1933
6.3
Blessed Event
as Dorothy Lane
1932
6.5