Isabel Jewell: Isabel Jewell. Actress: Gone with the Wind. 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 often playing hard-boiled, tough-talking broads: gangster's molls, dumb blondes, prostitutes and, of course, poor "white trash" Emmy Slattery in Gone with the Wind (1939). However, she also played ordinary 'nice' next-door girl types, for example in...
Known For: Gone with the Wind (Emmy Slattery), Born to Kill (Laury Palmer), A Tale of Two Cities (Seamstress), Counsellor at Law (Bessie Green)