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Isabel Jewell
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Actor Born: July 19, 1907 in Shoshone, WY Death: April 5, 1972 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:Born and raised on a Wyoming ranch, American actress "Isabel Jewell" would only rarely be called upon to play a "Western" type during her career. For the most part, Isabel -- who made her screen debut in "Blessed Event" (1932) -- was typecast as a gum-chewing, brassy urban blonde, or as an empty-headed gun moll. Jewell's three best remembered film performances were in "Tale of Two Cities" (1935), where she was atypically cast as the pathetic seamstress who is sentenced to the guillotine; "Lost Horizon" (1937), as the consumptive prostitute who finds a new lease on life when she is whisked away to the land of Shangri-La; and "Gone with the Wind" (1939), where she appears briefly as "poor white trash" Emmy Slattery. In 1946, Isabel finally got to show off the riding skills she'd accumulated in her youth in Wyoming when she was cast as female gunslinger Belle Starr in "Badman's Territory". Denied... Full Biography
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