Isobel Elsom

Actor

About

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Also Known As

Isobel Reed

Birth Place

Cambridge, England, GB

Born

March 16, 1893

Died

January 12, 1981

Filmography

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The Pleasure Seekers (1964)

Doña Teresa Lacaye

My Fair Lady (1964)

Mrs. Eynsford-Hill

Who's Minding the Store? (1963)

Hazel, a dowager

The Errand Boy (1961)

Irma Paramutual

The Second Time Around (1961)

The Miracle (1959)

Reverend Mother

Photos & Videos

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Lust For Life (1956) -- (Movie Clip) What Do You Know About Pain?

Two Mrs. Carrolls, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Stimulating Exhibition

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Maurice Elvey

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Director.

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Pleasure Seekers (1964)

Doña Teresa Lacaye

My Fair Lady (1964)

Mrs. Eynsford-Hill

Who's Minding the Store? (1963)

Hazel, a dowager

The Errand Boy (1961)

Irma Paramutual

The Second Time Around (1961)

The Miracle (1959)

Reverend Mother

The Young Philadelphians (1959)

Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)

The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957)

23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)

Over-Exposed (1956)

Mrs. Payton Grange

Lust for Life (1956)

The King's Thief (1955)

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)

Adeline Palmer-Jones

Deep in My Heart (1954)

Désirée (1954)

The Secret Garden (1949)

The Paradine Case (1948)

Smart Woman (1948)

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)

Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

Escape Me Never (1947)

Love from a Stranger (1947)

The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)

Of Human Bondage (1946)

Two Sisters from Boston (1946)

The Unseen (1945)

Between Two Worlds (1944)

Mrs. Genevieve Cliveden-Banks

Casanova Brown (1944)

The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)

Forever and a Day (1943)

Lady Timble-Pomfret

My Kingdom for a Cook (1943)

First Comes Courage (1943)

Eagle Squadron (1942)

Dame Elizabeth Whitby

The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942)

Mrs. Laura Winters

Laugh Your Blues Away (1942)

You Were Never Lovelier (1942)

Seven Sweethearts (1942)

Ladies in Retirement (1941)

The Harbour Lights (1923)

Life Events

1911

Stage acting debut

Videos

Lust For Life (1956) -- (Movie Clip) What Do You Know About Pain? Amsterdam, 1881, failed painter Vincent Van Gogh (Kirk Douglas) visits his aunt and uncle (Isobel Elsom, Wilton Graff) demanding to see their daughter, his cousin, whom he loves, prompting an incident verified by the uncle, though forgotten by the artist, in Vincente Minnelli’s bio-pic Lust For Life, 1956.

Two Mrs. Carrolls, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Stimulating Exhibition Charles (Pat O'Moore), Mrs. Latham (Isobel Elsom) and her daughter Cecily (Alexis Smith) are visiting his ex-fianceè Sally (Barbara Stanwyck) and her flinty artist husband Geoffrey Carroll (Humphrey Bogart), in The Two Mrs. Carrolls, 1947.

Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Spellbound By My Own Country Discouraged at work, Anglo-Chinese doctor Han Suyin (Jennifer Jones) is escorted to a Hong Kong party by colleague Dr. Keith (Murray Matheson) where hostess Adeline (Isobel Elsom) seems benevolent if imperialistic, meeting her husband (Torin Thatcher) and journalist Elliott (leading man William Holden), early in Love Is A Many Splendored Thing, 1955.

Desiree (1954) -- (Movie Clip) She Is Without Guile First appearance for Marlon Brando as Napoleon Bonaparte, in Marseilles, 1794, with his brother (Cameron Mitchell) meeting the family (Richard Deacon, Isobel Elsom, Elizabeth Sellars) of precocious Jean Simmons (title character), early in Henry Koster's Desiree, 1954.

Ghost And Mrs. Muir, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) My Blasted In-Laws Widow and tenant Lucy and the haunting Captain Gregg (Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, title characters) are growing friendlier when the sister and mother (Victoria Horne, Isobel Elsom) of her late husband arrive from London to make trouble, in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's The Ghost And Mrs. Muir. 1947.

Between Two Worlds (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Perhaps An Exception? Introducing characters in this second movie version of the 1924 Sutton Vane play Outward Bound, John Garfield, Faye Emerson, Isobel Elsom, Gilbert Emery, George Tobias and Paul Henreid as the distraught hero pianist, adapted to wartime by Daniel Fuchs, as Between Two Worlds, 1944.

Ladies In Retirement -- (Movie Clip) Very Prettily Done Albert (Louis Hayward), having gained entry into the home of retired actress Miss Fiske (Isobel Elsom) by claiming to be the distressed nephew of her absent housekeeper, flirts with fetching maid Lucy (Evelyn Keyes) and receives his reward, in Ladies In Retirement, 1941.

Ladies In Retirement -- (Movie Clip) Your Sisters Must Leave Opening scene, Ellen (Ida Lupino), the housekeeper at the Thames valley home of retired actress Miss Fiske (Isobel Elsom), receives an alarming note regarding her two batty sisters, in Charles Vidor's Ladies In Retirement, 1941.

Ladies In Retirement -- (Movie Clip) My Treasures Housekeeper Ellen (Ida Lupino) with kooky sister Louisa (Edith Barrett), wondering about equally kooky and dependent sister Emily (Elsa Lanchester), arriving home to find she's had a row with employer and host Miss Fiske (Isobel Elsom), in Ladies In Retirement, 1941.

Miracle, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) To Our Very Gates Young postulant Teresa (Carroll Baker) and fellow Spanish nuns can't help noticing especially handsome dragoon Captain Michael (Roger Moore), en route to engage Napoleon, in The Miracle, 1959.

You Were Never Lovelier - (Original Trailer) Rita Hayworth is an Argentine heiress who thinks Fred Astaire is her secret admirer in You Were Never Lovelier (1942).

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - (Original Trailer) Eurasian doctor Jennifer Jones meets war correspondent William Holden and discovers Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing (1955).

Companions

Maurice Elvey

Companion

Director.

Bibliography

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