Highest rated movie: Gone with the Wind (1939)
Lowest rated movie: Go West Young Man (1936)
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Movies starring Isabel Jewell have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 66%.
Gone with the Wind - released in 1939 - is Isabel Jewell's highest rated movie, with a score of 86% based on 825 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Isabel Jewell is Go West Young Man - released in 1936 - with a score of 46% based on 3 reviews.
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.
Isabel Jewell has acted in films with Edward Gargan, Milton Kibbee, Grace Hayle and Wilbur Mack.
Isabel Jewell has worked with these film directors: Victor Fleming, William Wyler, Howard Hawks and Robert Wise.
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