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

The Pleasure Seekers
1964
as Dona Teresa Lacayo
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
1964
as Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
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?
1963
as Hazel
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
1961
as Mrs. Rogers
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
1961
as Irma Paramutual
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
1960
as Hotel Guest (uncredited)
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
1959
as Mother Superior
A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.

Startime: The Turn of the Screw
1959
as Mrs. Grose
A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.

Rock-a-Bye Baby
1958
as Mrs. Van Cleeve
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
1957
as Mrs Fairfax
Unusual adaptation of the classic novel.

The Guns of Fort Petticoat
1957
as Mrs. Charlotte Ogden
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
1957
as Baroness Vetsera
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
1956
as Mrs. Stricker
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
1956
as Lady Syrett
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
1956
as Mrs. Payton Grange
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
1955
as Adeline Palmer-Jones
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
1955
as Mrs. Bennett
An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.

Deep in My Heart
1954
as Mrs. Harris
Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.

Désirée
1954
as Mme. Clary
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
A group of struggling artists, poets, and musicians struggle to survive in squalor without giving up their artistic ideals.

The Secret Garden
1949
as Governess
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
1948
as Mrs. Rogers
A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.

The Paradine Case
1947
as Innkeeper
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
1947
as Auntie Loo-Loo Gerard
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
1947
as Mrs. MacLean
A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.

Monsieur Verdoux
1947
as Marie Grosnay
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
1947
as Miss Chattle
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
1947
as Angelica Muir
A young British widow rents a seaside cottage and soon becomes haunted by the ghost of its former owner.

The Two Mrs. Carrolls
1947
as Mrs. Latham
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
1946
as Mrs. Betty Athelny
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
1946
as Aunt Jennifer
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
1945
as Marian Tygarth
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
1944
as Mrs. Ferris
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
1944
as Genevieve Cliveden-Banks
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
1944
as Mrs. Bancroft (uncredited)
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
1943
as Lucille Scott
While visiting Massachusetts, a famous English author (Charles Coburn) faces the wrath of a socialite (Isobel Elsom) after stealing her chef.

First Comes Courage
1943
as Rose Lindstrom
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
1943
as Lady Trimble-Pomfret
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
1942
as Maria Castro
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

Seven Sweethearts
1942
as Miss Abagail Robbins
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
1942
as Mrs. Westerly
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
1942
as Mrs. Laura Winters
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
1942
as Dame Elizabeth Whitby
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
1941
as Leonora Fiske
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
Investigation into the murder of a village squire.

Illegal
1932
as Mrs. Evelyn Dean
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
An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.
Stranglehold
1931
as Beatrice
A novelist living in a boarding house imagines a murder that involves his fellow boarders.

Human Law
1927
as Louise Radcliffe
A jealous husband leaves jail to find his wife loves his lawyer.
The Tower of London
1926
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
British horror drama short from 1926.
Who Is the Man?
1924
as Genevieve Arnault
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
A faithless K.C.'s wife elopes with his opponent in a slum murder trial.

The Sign of Four
1923
as Mary Morstan
The final feature in the Eille Norwood Holmes series.
The Wandering Jew
1923
as Olalla Quintana
'The legend of the Wandering Jew, condemned to walk the earth until the Second Coming.' (British Film Institute)

The Harbour Lights
1923
as Dora Nelson
A lieutenant saves an heiress from a wicked squire and is framed for murder.
A Debt of Honour
1922
as Hope Carteret
In India an engineer blackmails a girl over her gambling brother.

Dick Turpin's Ride to York
1922
as Esther Bevis
A highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper.
The Game of Life
1922
as Alice Fletcher
Aunt Rachel
1920
as Ruth
A jilted aunt refuses to let her niece marry a violinist's nephew.

Mrs. Thompson
1919
as Enid Thompson
The Edge o' Beyond
1919
as Joyce Grey
The Man Who Won
1918
as Milly Cooper
A proud architect learns his vicar's daughter is adopted, so she weds a workman who inherits a fortune.

The Elder Miss Blossom
1918
as Sophie Blossom
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor
1918
as Isabel Bunter
'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
Family saga about several generations of shipbuilders. Believed to be a lost film.