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Acting

Isabel Jewell

Career

Active from 1933 to 1973, with a break from 1949 to 1971, busiest in 1936 with 8 main titles.

Leading roles
8
top three billing
Average score
GoodWatch score68/100
Highest rated
Poster for Mad Love
Mad Love
GoodWatch score87/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 36 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Energy: 4.3 versus catalog average 4.6EnergyHeart: 4.3 versus catalog average 4.2HeartHumor: 2.2 versus catalog average 2.6HumorWorld: 5.6 versus catalog average 5.6WorldCraft: 5.5 versus catalog average 5.3CraftStyle: 5.7 versus catalog average 5.9Style
Isabel Jewell Catalog average

Rarely in their work

  • Contemporary Realism
    2.0, average 5.4
  • Tech & Humanity
    0.7, average 1.6
  • Coming of Age
    2.2, average 3.0
  • Cringe Humor
    1.5, average 2.2

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

  • Classic Hollywood 4
  • Psychological Horror 3
  • Strong Female Lead 2
  • Legal Thriller 2
  • Psychological Tension 2
  • 1930s 2
  • Pre-Code Hollywood 2
  • Stylish 2
  • Melancholy Tone 2
  • Classic Cinema 2
  • Social Commentary 2
  • Character Study 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

68
Type
Role
Score
Decade
Genre
Group by

1970s

2 titles · average score 54
Ciao! Manhattan
Ciao! Manhattan (1973)
GoodWatch score 59

as Mummy

Sweet Kill
Sweet Kill (1972)
GoodWatch score 49

as Mrs. Cole

1950s

6 titles · average score 59
Lock-Up
Lock-Up (1959)

TV show

Bernardine
Bernardine (1957)
GoodWatch score 65

as Ruby McDuff

Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke (1955)
GoodWatch score 76

TV show · as Madame Ahr

Drum Beat
Drum Beat (1954)
GoodWatch score 45

as Lily White

Man in the Attic
Man in the Attic (1953)
GoodWatch score 48

as Katy

Mr. & Mrs. North
Mr. & Mrs. North (1952)
GoodWatch score 61

TV show

1940s

21 titles · average score 65
Born to Kill
Born to Kill (1947)
GoodWatch score 78

as Laury Palmer

The Bishop's Wife
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
GoodWatch score 76

as Hysterical Mother

The Merry Monahans
The Merry Monahans (1944)

as Rose

The Seventh Victim
The Seventh Victim (1943)
GoodWatch score 80

as Frances Fallon

Danger! Women at Work
Danger! Women at Work (1943)

as Marie

The Leopard Man
The Leopard Man (1943)
GoodWatch score 77

as Maria the Fortune Teller

The Falcon and the Co-Eds
The Falcon and the Co-Eds (1943)
GoodWatch score 55

as Mary Phoebus

High Sierra
High Sierra (1941)
GoodWatch score 83

as Blonde

Marked Men
Marked Men (1940)
GoodWatch score 54

as Linda Harkness

Scatterbrain
Scatterbrain (1940)

as Esther Harrington

Babies for Sale
Babies for Sale (1940)

as Edith Drake

Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!
Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love! (1940)

as Gertie - Truck Stop Waitress

1930s

39 titles · average score 70
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind (1939)
GoodWatch score 87

as Emmy Slattery

Swing It, Sailor!
Swing It, Sailor! (1938)

as Myrtle Montrose

Lost Horizon
Lost Horizon (1937)
GoodWatch score 83

as Gloria Stone

Marked Woman
Marked Woman (1937)
GoodWatch score 69

as Emmy Lou Eagan

The Leathernecks Have Landed
The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936)

as Brooklyn

Career Woman
Career Woman (1936)

as Gracie Clay

Mad Love
Mad Love (1935)
GoodWatch score 87

as Marianne (scenes deleted)

Times Square Lady
Times Square Lady (1935)
GoodWatch score 64

as Babe

Evelyn Prentice
Evelyn Prentice (1934)
GoodWatch score 65

as Judith Wilson

Manhattan Melodrama
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
GoodWatch score 75

as Annabelle

She Had to Choose
She Had to Choose (1934)

as Sally Bates

Design for Living
Design for Living (1933)
GoodWatch score 75

as Plunkett's Stenographer