Isabel Jewell

Isabel Jewell

July 19, 1907 · 119 years old

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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…

Known For

16 titles
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Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon

1937 · 2h 12m · Movie

When a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay.

7.6
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Design for Living

Design for Living

1933 · 1h 31m · Movie

A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.

7.4
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The Seventh Victim

The Seventh Victim

1943 · 1h 11m · Movie

A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds that they could have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance.

6.7
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Born to Kill

Born to Kill

1947 · 1h 32m · Movie

A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with the hotheaded murderer romancing her foster sister.

7.2
5
Mad Love

Mad Love

1935 · 1h 8m · Movie

In Paris, a demented surgeon's obsession with a British actress leads him to secretly replace her concert-pianist husband's mangled hands with those of a guillotined murderer with a gift for knife-throwing.

7.2
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The Leopard Man

The Leopard Man

1943 · 1h 6m · Movie

A seemingly-tame leopard used for a publicity stunt escapes and kills a young girl, spreading panic throughout a sleepy New Mexico town.

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Marked Woman

Marked Woman

1937 · 1h 36m · Movie

A crusading district attorney persuades a clip joint hostess to testify against her mobster boss after her innocent sister is accidentally murdered during one of his unsavory parties.

7.1
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Northwest Passage

Northwest Passage

1940 · 2h 6m · Movie

Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.

7.0
9
Bombshell

Bombshell

1933 · 1h 36m · Movie

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

7.1
10
Man in the Attic

Man in the Attic

1953 · 1h 22m · Movie

After an enigmatic, self-described pathologist rents the attic room of a Victorian house, his landlady begins to suspect her lodger is Jack the Ripper.

6.1
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Counsellor at Law

Counsellor at Law

1933 · 1h 22m · Movie

A successful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns that his wife has been unfaithful.

7.5
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Big Brown Eyes

Big Brown Eyes

1936 · 1h 17m · Movie

Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.

6.5
13
Drum Beat

Drum Beat

1954 · 1h 51m · Movie

In 1872, Indian fighter Johnny MacKay is appointed peace commissioner for the California and Oregon territory but he faces tough opposition from the renegade Modocs led by their chief Captain Jack.

6.3
14
Ciao Manhattan

Ciao Manhattan

1973 · 1h 24m · Movie

This parallels the life of Andy Warhol Factory star Edie Sedgwick. The film chronicles "Susan Superstar's" (Sedgwick) glory days in the late 1960s through her inevitable downfall and the tragic addiction that would claim her life ...

5.6
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Go West Young Man

Go West Young Man

1936 · 1h 20m · Movie

A movie star, stranded in the country, trifles with a young man's affections.

6.2
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Sweet Kill

Sweet Kill

1972 · 1h 25m · Movie

Horror and suspense in the story of a psychotic maniac who literally "loves" women to death.

5.0