Isabel Jewell
- Birthday
- Jul 19, 1907
Bio: Born and raised on a Wyoming ranch, American actress Isabel Jewell would only rarely be called upon to play a "Western" type during her career. For the most part, Isabel -- who made her screen debut in Blessed Event (1932) -- was typecast as a gum-chewing, brassy urban blonde, or as an empty-headed gun moll. Jewell's three best remembered film performances were in… More Bio: Born and raised on a Wyoming ranch, American actress Isabel Jewell would only rarely be called upon to play a "Western" type during her career. For the most part, Isabel -- who made her screen debut in Blessed Event (1932) -- was typecast as a gum-chewing, brassy urban blonde, or as an empty-headed gun moll. Jewell's three best remembered film performances were in Tale of Two Cities (1935), where she was atypically cast as the pathetic seamstress who is sentenced to the guillotine; Lost Horizon (1937), as the consumptive prostitute who finds a new lease on life when she is whisked away to the land of Shangri-La; and Gone with the Wind (1939), where she appears briefly as "poor white trash" Emmy Slattery. In 1946, Isabel finally got to show off the riding skills she'd accumulated in her youth in Wyoming when she was cast as female gunslinger Belle Starr in Badman's Territory. Denied starring roles because of her height (she was well under five feet), Isabel Jewell worked as a supporting player in films until the '50s and in television until the '60s. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Gone With The Wind
High Sierra
Ciao! Manhattan
Badman's Territory
Lost Horizon
Filmography
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Ciao Manhattan (Edie in Ciao! Manhattan) (1972)
- Mummy, Director
- 60%
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Arousers (1970)
- Mrs. Cole
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Drum Beat (1954)
- Lily White
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Man in the Attic (1953)
- Katy
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The Story of Molly X (1949)
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