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