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Isabel Jewell

Isabel Jewell

Birthday: 1907-07-19 | Place of Birth: Shoshone, 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 Wikipedia

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2013
Design for Living

as    Plunkett's Stenographer

1972
Sweet Kill

as    Mrs. Cole

1948
Belle Starr's Daughter

as    Belle Starr

1947
Born to Kill

as    Laury Palmer

1945
Steppin' in Society

as    Jenny the Juke

1943
The Seventh Victim

as    Frances Fallon

1943
The Leopard Man

as    Maria the Fortune Teller

1943
The Falcon and the Co-Eds

as    Mary Phoebus

1940
Scatterbrain

as    Esther Harrington

1940
Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!

as    Gertie - Truck Stop Waitress

1940
Irene

as    Jane McGee

1940
Northwest Passage

as    Jennie Coit

1940
Marked Men

as    Linda Harkness

1939
They Asked For It

as    Molly Herkimer

1939
Missing Daughters

as    Peggy

1938
Swing It, Sailor!

as    Myrtle Montrose

1937
Love on Toast

as    Belle Huntley

1937
Marked Woman

as    Emmy Lou Eagan

1937
Lost Horizon

as    Gloria Stone

1936
Big Brown Eyes

as    Bessie Blair

1936
Small Town Girl

as    Emily 'Em' Brannan

1936
36 Hours to Kill

as    Jeanie Benson

1936
Ceiling Zero

as    Lou Clarke

1936
Dancing Feet

as    Mabel Henry

1935
The Casino Murder Case

as    Amelia

1935
Times Square Lady

as    Babe

1935
Shadow of Doubt

as    Inez

1934
Manhattan Melodrama

as    Annabelle

1934
Evelyn Prentice

as    Judith Wilson

1933
Bombshell

as    Nellie, Junior's Girlfriend