Isabel Jewell

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Isabel Jewell (born July 19, 1907 in Shoshoni , Wyoming , † April 5, 1972 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actress .

Live and act

From her home in the Midwestern United States, Jewell moved to Broadway around 1930 to work as an actress. She soon got good reviews for her performances, for example in the pieces Up Pops the Devil and Blessed Event . She made her film debut in 1932 in the film adaptation of Blessed Event with Lee Tracy and Mary Brian in the leading roles, but without a mention in the credits . In the 1930s, Jewell became a successful supporting actress, often playing the role of the "bad girl" who is easily sexually available or interacts with shady people. She embodied gangster brides in films such as Manhattan Melodrama (1934) and Murder in the Nightclub (1939). One of her best-known roles was that of the prostitute Gloria in Frank Capra's classic film Lost Horizon (Eng. In the Shackles of Shangri-La ) on the side of Ronald Colman from 1937. She also took on a minor supporting role in Gone with the Wind (1939) as Emmy Slattery having an unseemly affair with Warden Wilkerson (played by Victor Jory ).

In the early 1940s, Jewell's roles became smaller and she increasingly only came out in B-films about small roles. For the rest of her career she only appeared occasionally in film and television. She had an interesting success in 1972 with the semi-documentary biography Ciao! Manhattan about Edie Sedgwick , but Jewell died in the year of publication at the age of 64. Her two marriages with actor Paul Marion (1915–2011) and filmmaker Owen Crump (1903–1998) were divorced, it is unknown whether she had children. Isabel Jewell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .

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personal data
SURNAME Jewell, Isabel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Shoshoni , Wyoming
DATE OF DEATH April 5th 1972
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States