Isabel Jewell
Born
July 19, 1907
Died
April 5, 1972 (64 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Shoshone, Wyoming, USA
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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
Ciao! Manhattan
Mummy
1973
Sweet Kill
Mrs. Cole
1972
The New Cinema
Self
1968
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
'A Tale of Two Cities' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1961
Lock-Up
(1 episode)
1959
Bernardine
Ruby McDuff
1957
Gunsmoke
Madame Ahr · (1 episode)
1955
Drum Beat
Lily White
1954
Man in the Attic
Katy
1953
Mr. & Mrs. North
(1 episode)
1952
Belle Starr's Daughter
Belle Starr
1948
Michael O'Halloran
Mrs Laura Nelson
1948
The Bishop's Wife
Hysterical Mother
1947
Born to Kill
Laury Palmer
1947
Badman's Territory
Belle Starr
1946
Sensation Hunters
Mae
1945
Steppin' in Society
Jenny the Juke
1945
The Merry Monahans
Rose
1944
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
Mary Phoebus
1943
Danger! Women at Work
Marie
1943
The Seventh Victim
Frances Fallon
1943
The Leopard Man
Maria the Fortune Teller
1943
For Beauty's Sake
Amy Devore
1941
High Sierra
Blonde
1941
Little Men
Stella
1940
Marked Men
Linda Harkness
1940
Scatterbrain
Esther Harrington
1940
Babies for Sale
Edith Drake
1940
Irene
Jane McGee
1940
Northwest Passage
Jennie Coit
1940
Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!
Gertie - Truck Stop Waitress
1940
Gone with the Wind
Emmy Slattery
1939
Missing Daughters
Peggy
1939
They Asked For It
Molly Herkimer
1939
The Crowd Roars
Mrs. Martin
1938
Swing It, Sailor!
Myrtle Montrose
1938
Love on Toast
Belle Huntley
1937
Marked Woman
Emmy Lou Eagan
1937
Lost Horizon
Gloria Stone
1937
Career Woman
Gracie Clay
1936
Go West Young Man
Gladys
1936
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Lilli Eipper
1936
The Man Who Lived Twice
Peggy Russell
1936
36 Hours to Kill
Jeanie Benson
1936
Small Town Girl
Emily 'Em' Brannan
1936
Big Brown Eyes
Bessie Blair
1936
The Leathernecks Have Landed
Brooklyn
1936
Dancing Feet
Mabel Henry
1936
Ceiling Zero
Lou Clarke
1936
A Tale of Two Cities
The Seamstress
1935
Mad Love
Marianne (scenes deleted)
1935
The Casino Murder Case
Amelia
1935
Times Square Lady
Babe
1935
I've Been Around
Sally Van Loan
1935
Shadow of Doubt
Inez
1935
Evelyn Prentice
Judith Wilson
1934
She Had to Choose
Sally Bates
1934
Here Comes the Groom
Angy
1934
Manhattan Melodrama
Annabelle
1934
Let’s Be Ritzy
Betty
1934
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
1934
Design for Living
Plunkett's Stenographer
1933
Counsellor at Law
Bessie Green
1933
The Women in His Life
Catherine Watson
1933
Advice to the Lovelorn
Rose
1933
Day of Reckoning
Kate Lovett
1933
Bombshell
Nellie, Junior's Girlfriend
1933
Beauty for Sale
Hortense
1933
Bondage
Beulah
1933
The Crime of the Century
Bridge Player (uncredited)
1933
Blessed Event
Dorothy Lane
1932