Still of Ronald Colman, John Howard, Isabel Jewell and Thomas Mitchell in Lost Horizon (1937)
Caption: Still of Ronald Colman, John Howard, Isabel Jewell and Thomas Mitchell in Lost Horizon (1937)
Actress, Soundtrack
Born: July 19, 1907
Star sign: Cancer
Height: 4' 11" (1.5 m)
Known for: Gone with the Wind (1939), Lost Horizon (1937), The Seventh Victim (1943), The Leopard Man (1943)
Source: IMDB
Isabel Jewell, like other actresses in Hollywood in the 1930s, suffered from chronic typecasting. The diminutive, platinum-haired daughter of a doctor and medical researcher seemed to be forever playing hard-boiled, tough-talking broads: gangster's molls, dumb blondes, prostitutes and, of course, poor "white trash" Emmy Slattery in Gone with the ...