Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 19, 1907
Died
Apr 05, 1972
Place of Birth
Shoshone, Wyoming, USA
Credits
70 titles
Isabel Jewell
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
Filmography
Ciao! Manhattan
Mummy
Sweet Kill
Mrs. Cole
The New Cinema
Self
Lock-Up
Bernardine
Ruby McDuff
Gunsmoke
Madame Ahr
Drum Beat
Lily White
Man in the Attic
Katy
Mr. & Mrs. North
Belle Starr's Daughter
Belle Starr
Michael O'Halloran
Mrs Laura Nelson
The Bishop's Wife
Hysterical Mother
Born to Kill
Laury Palmer
Badman's Territory
Belle Starr
Sensation Hunters
Mae
Steppin' in Society
Jenny the Juke
The Merry Monahans
Rose
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
Mary Phoebus
Danger! Women at Work
Marie
The Seventh Victim
Frances Fallon
The Leopard Man
Maria the Fortune Teller
For Beauty's Sake
Amy Devore
High Sierra
Blonde
Little Men
Stella
Marked Men
Linda Harkness
Scatterbrain
Esther Harrington
Babies for Sale
Edith Drake
Irene
Jane McGee
Northwest Passage
Jennie Coit
Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!
Gertie - Truck Stop Waitress
Gone with the Wind
Emmy Slattery
Missing Daughters
Peggy
They Asked For It
Molly Herkimer
The Crowd Roars
Mrs. Martin
Swing It, Sailor!
Myrtle Montrose
Love on Toast
Belle Huntley
Marked Woman
Emmy Lou Eagan
Lost Horizon
Gloria Stone
Career Woman
Gracie Clay
Go West Young Man
Gladys
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Lilli Eipper
The Man Who Lived Twice
Peggy Russell
36 Hours to Kill
Jeanie Benson
Small Town Girl
Emily 'Em' Brannan
Big Brown Eyes
Bessie Blair
The Leathernecks Have Landed
Brooklyn
Dancing Feet
Mabel Henry
Ceiling Zero
Lou Clarke
A Tale of Two Cities
The Seamstress
Mad Love
Marianne (scenes deleted)