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Isabel Jewell  (July 19, 1907 in film|1907 - April
5, 1972 in film|1972) was an United
States|American film actor|actress.

Born in Shoshone, Wyoming, Jewell was a Broadway
actress who achieved immediate success and glowing
critical reviews in two productions, Up Pops the
Devil (1930) and Blessed Event (1932).  She was
brought to Hollywood for the film version of the
latter, by Warner Brothers.   A petite 4' 11" tall
and with platinum blonde hair, Jewell appeared in
a variety of supporting roles during the early
1930s.   She played stereotypical gangster's women
in such films as Manhattan Melodrama  (1934) and
Marked Woman (1937).   She was well received
playing against type, as a seamstress sentenced to
death on the guillotine, in A Tale of Two Cities
(1935).  Her most significant role was as the
prostitution|prostitute Gloria Stone in Lost
Horizon (1937)|Lost Horizon (1937). 

Her subsequent films included Gone With the Wind
(1939), Northwest Passage (1940), High Sierra
(1941), and the low budget The Leopard Man (1943)
but by the end of the 1940s her roles had reduced
in significance to the degree that her
performances were often uncredited.  By the end of
her career she had appeared in more than one
hundred films.  

She died in Hollywood, California.

Isabel Jewell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 
1560 Vine St.