Her brother Desmond Jeans was a boxer and actor, and her elder sister, Isabel, was also an actress.

[10] She entertained troops with ENSA during World War II, sometimes working with her husband.

After the war, she continued acting, including starring as Mrs. Tarlton, in one of the eight episodes of the BBC's H M Tennant's Globe Theatre, in 1956; and, in a stage tour of Australia and New Zealand, between 1956 and 1958.

Jeans made one appearance each in Dixon of Dock Green, in 1967, as Mrs. Regan; in Theatre 625, as Mother Denis, in 1968; and as Ursula Benton, in The Root of All Evil?, also in 1968.

[9] She shares a memorial plaque with her second husband, Roger Livesey, in the actors' church St Paul's, Covent Garden.