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Stately Isabel Jeans was brought to Hollywood by the director 'Anatole Litvak' , as the land-owning Lady Despard.
Elegant, courtly British character actress long on the stage who played a couple of top roles in Alfred Hitchcock s silent films, Downhill and Easy Virtue , then went to Hollywood and settled into a number of grande dames, for Hitchcock ( Suspicion ) and many others.
Sister of Desmond Jeans and Ursula Jeans.
Claude Rains separated from wife Isabel Jeans three times, reuniting twice. He finally filed for divorce on grounds of adultery when she miscarried Gilbert Wakefield s baby. She admitted the adultery during the divorce and later married "Gilley" Wakefield.
She was the sister-in-law of Roger Livesey , who was married to her younger sister Ursula Jeans , and Maggie Livesey, who was married to her younger brother Desmond Jeans. The Liveseys were themselves siblings.
