Isobel Elsom

Isobel Elsom

1893-03-15 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK 66 Credits

Biography

Isobel Elsom (March 16, 1893 — January 12, 1981) was an English screen, stage, and television actress.

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The Pleasure Seekers

The Pleasure Seekers

1964

as Dona Teresa Lacayo

5.1
Acting

A trio of gorgeous American tourists hope to find love while vacationing in Spain. Secretary Maggie Williams falls hard for a married newsman named Pa...

My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady

1964

as Mrs. Eynsford-Hill

7.5
Acting

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

Who's Minding the Store?

Who's Minding the Store?

1963

as Hazel

6.9
Acting

Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store ...

The Second Time Around

The Second Time Around

1961

as Mrs. Rogers

6.2
Acting

In 1911, a widow with two children leaves New York City for territorial Arizona and becomes a ranch hand and later gets herself elected sheriff. A gam...

The Errand Boy

The Errand Boy

1961

as Irma Paramutual

6.1
Acting

Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mai...

The Bellboy

The Bellboy

1960

as Hotel Guest (uncredited)

6.2
Acting

Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach, where he performs his duties quietly and without a word to anyone. All he displays are...

The Miracle

The Miracle

1959

as Mother Superior

6.7
Acting

A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.

Startime: The Turn of the Screw

Startime: The Turn of the Screw

1959

as Mrs. Grose

Acting

A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.

Rock-a-Bye Baby

Rock-a-Bye Baby

1958

as Mrs. Van Cleeve

6.8
Acting

An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will not su...

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

1957

as Mrs Fairfax

2.0
Acting

Unusual adaptation of the classic novel.

The Guns of Fort Petticoat

The Guns of Fort Petticoat

1957

as Mrs. Charlotte Ogden

6.3
Acting

Opposing his commanding officer's decision to attack a group of innocent Indians and wipe them out, Lt. Frank Hewitt leaves his post and heads home to...

Mayerling

Mayerling

1957

as Baroness Vetsera

5.5
Acting

Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desp...

Lust for Life

Lust for Life

1956

as Mrs. Stricker

7.2
Acting

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustr...

23 Paces to Baker Street

23 Paces to Baker Street

1956

as Lady Syrett

6.8
Acting

Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child...

Over-Exposed

Over-Exposed

1956

as Mrs. Payton Grange

5.2
Acting

This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an a...

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

1955

as Adeline Palmer-Jones

6.0
Acting

A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolu...

The King's Thief

The King's Thief

1955

as Mrs. Bennett

6.2
Acting

An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.

Deep in My Heart

Deep in My Heart

1954

as Mrs. Harris

6.8
Acting

Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.

Désirée

Désirée

1954

as Mme. Clary

6.4
Acting

In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-B...

The Eternal Melody

1949

as Madame Garzin

Acting

A group of struggling artists, poets, and musicians struggle to survive in squalor without giving up their artistic ideals.

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

1949

as Governess

7.1
Acting

When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she...

Smart Woman

Smart Woman

1948

as Mrs. Rogers

5.5
Acting

A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.

The Paradine Case

The Paradine Case

1947

as Innkeeper

6.2
Acting

Attorney Anthony Keane agrees to represent Londonite Mrs. Paradine, who has been fingered in her husband's murder. From the start, the married lawyer ...

Love from a Stranger

Love from a Stranger

1947

as Auntie Loo-Loo Gerard

5.7
Acting

Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Law...

Escape Me Never

Escape Me Never

1947

as Mrs. MacLean

4.7
Acting

A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.

Monsieur Verdoux

Monsieur Verdoux

1947

as Marie Grosnay

7.7
Acting

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his wo...

Ivy

Ivy

1947

as Miss Chattle

6.8
Acting

When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, or her lover, Dr. Roger...

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1947

as Angelica Muir

7.5
Acting

A young British widow rents a seaside cottage and soon becomes haunted by the ghost of its former owner.

The Two Mrs. Carrolls

The Two Mrs. Carrolls

1947

as Mrs. Latham

6.6
Acting

Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn't tell her he's already married. Suff...

Of Human Bondage

Of Human Bondage

1946

as Mrs. Betty Athelny

6.0
Acting

A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for help...

Two Sisters from Boston

Two Sisters from Boston

1946

as Aunt Jennifer

6.0
Acting

Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house ...

The Unseen

The Unseen

1945

as Marian Tygarth

4.5
Acting

David Fielding, who has recently lost his wife, moves into a new neighborhood under a cloud of suspicion. Many feel that his wife's death in a car cra...

Casanova Brown

Casanova Brown

1944

as Mrs. Ferris

6.3
Acting

Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, C...

Between Two Worlds

Between Two Worlds

1944

as Genevieve Cliveden-Banks

7.0
Acting

Passengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got onboard or where they are going. Soon it becomes apparent that they all have something in commo...

The White Cliffs of Dover

The White Cliffs of Dover

1944

as Mrs. Bancroft (uncredited)

6.7
Acting

American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whir...

My Kingdom for a Cook

My Kingdom for a Cook

1943

as Lucille Scott

Acting

While visiting Massachusetts, a famous English author (Charles Coburn) faces the wrath of a socialite (Isobel Elsom) after stealing her chef.

First Comes Courage

First Comes Courage

1943

as Rose Lindstrom

6.6
Acting

Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies la...

Forever and a Day

Forever and a Day

1943

as Lady Trimble-Pomfret

7.4
Acting

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, ...

You Were Never Lovelier

You Were Never Lovelier

1942

as Maria Castro

7.1
Acting

An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

Seven Sweethearts

Seven Sweethearts

1942

as Miss Abagail Robbins

6.0
Acting

Little Delft, Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival. The owner of the hotel insists that his seven dau...

Laugh Your Blues Away

Laugh Your Blues Away

1942

as Mrs. Westerly

Acting

Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up her son with the daughter of a wealthy Texas rancher.

The War Against Mrs. Hadley

The War Against Mrs. Hadley

1942

as Mrs. Laura Winters

5.2
Acting

Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishnes...

Eagle Squadron

Eagle Squadron

1942

as Dame Elizabeth Whitby

Acting

An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.

Ladies in Retirement

Ladies in Retirement

1941

as Leonora Fiske

6.5
Acting

Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen's eccentric sisters visit ...

The Thirteenth Candle

1933

as Lady Sylvia Meeton

Acting

Investigation into the murder of a village squire.

Illegal

Illegal

1932

as Mrs. Evelyn Dean

5.7
Acting

This is the story of a woman who kicks out her no-good second husband after he wastes all her money. Since gambling and drink had taken all her money,...

The Crooked Lady

1932

as Miriam Sinclair

Acting

An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.

Stranglehold

1931

as Beatrice

Acting

A novelist living in a boarding house imagines a murder that involves his fellow boarders.

Human Law

Human Law

1927

as Louise Radcliffe

Acting

A jealous husband leaves jail to find his wife loves his lawyer.

The Tower of London

1926

Acting

In the surviving fragment of this film, over a game of chess, a man tells his wife the story of the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey, who reluctantly accepts ...

Glamis Castle

1926

Acting

British horror drama short from 1926.

Who Is the Man?

1924

as Genevieve Arnault

Acting

Daniel Arnault an impecunious sculptor, is in love with the beautiful Genevieve. Spurred on by her mercenary and socially ambitious mother , Genevieve...

The Love Story of Aliette Brunton

1924

as Aliette Brunton

Acting

A faithless K.C.'s wife elopes with his opponent in a slum murder trial.

The Sign of Four

The Sign of Four

1923

as Mary Morstan

5.0
Acting

The final feature in the Eille Norwood Holmes series.

The Wandering Jew

1923

as Olalla Quintana

Acting

'The legend of the Wandering Jew, condemned to walk the earth until the Second Coming.' (British Film Institute)

The Harbour Lights

The Harbour Lights

1923

as Dora Nelson

Acting

A lieutenant saves an heiress from a wicked squire and is framed for murder.

A Debt of Honour

1922

as Hope Carteret

Acting

In India an engineer blackmails a girl over her gambling brother.

Dick Turpin's Ride to York

Dick Turpin's Ride to York

1922

as Esther Bevis

Acting

A highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper.

The Game of Life

1922

as Alice Fletcher

Acting

Aunt Rachel

1920

as Ruth

Acting

A jilted aunt refuses to let her niece marry a violinist's nephew.

Mrs. Thompson

Mrs. Thompson

1919

as Enid Thompson

Acting

The Edge o' Beyond

1919

as Joyce Grey

Acting

The Man Who Won

1918

as Milly Cooper

Acting

A proud architect learns his vicar's daughter is adopted, so she weds a workman who inherits a fortune.

The Elder Miss Blossom

The Elder Miss Blossom

1918

as Sophie Blossom

Acting

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor

1918

as Isabel Bunter

Acting

'1860-1910. Life of a mayor's daughter if she married (a) a rich baronet; (b) a poor shopkeeper; (c) nobody.' (British Film Catalogue)

Milestones

1916

Acting

Family saga about several generations of shipbuilders. Believed to be a lost film.