Isobel Elsom

Isobel Elsom

Nascimento : 1893-03-16, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Morte : 1981-01-12

História

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

Perfil

Isobel Elsom

Filmes

Em Busca do Prazer
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 Paul Barton while fighting off the advances of one of his employees. Singer Fran Hobson sets her sights on a handsome European doctor. And coed Susie Higgins receives an unexpected proposal from smooth-talking womanizer Emilio Lacaya.
Minha Bela Dama
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), um intelectual e professor de fonética, aposta que conseguirá, no período máximo de seis meses, transformar Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn), uma simples florista de rua que não sabe falar direito, em uma dama. Mas a tarefa se mostra muito mais difícil do que tinha sido imaginada originalmente.
Errado pra Cachorro
Hazel
Phoebe Tuttle (Agnes Moorehead) é a dona de uma cadeia de lojas de departamentos que descobre que Barbara Tuttle (Jill St. John), sua filha, está apaixonada por Norman Phiffier (Jerry Lewis), um rapaz pobre que ela não aprova. Phoebe decide então contratar o jovem para demonstrar que ele é um desmiolado, dando-lhe tarefas complicadas para humilha-lo, esperando assim que Barbara o deixe. Porém sua filha sai de casa, passando a trabalhar em uma das lojas da mãe usando o nome Fuller. Assim, Norman não imagina que se casará com uma rica herdeira, mas se souber disto desiste do casamento.
Mocinho Encrenqueiro
Irma Paramutual
Em um dos grandes estúdios de Hollywood, a Paramutual Pictures, o big boss da companhia, T.P. (Brian Donlevy), está muito irritado, pois a empresa dia a dia está perdendo dinheiro. Porém isto não acontece na bilheteria, e sim dentro do próprio estúdio. Durante uma reunião de diretoria, onde o assunto é levantado, T.P. apresenta para os diretores um técnico em eficiência, mas Irma (Isolbel Elsom), uma das sócias da companhia, se indispõe com ele, dizendo que isto não ira funcionar. O técnico se retira irritado, então T.P. e a diretoria concluem que precisam de uma pessoa totalmente desconhecida para fazer esta inspeção. Eles acabam escolhendo um colocador de cartazes, Morty S. Tashman (Jerry Lewis), que é uma pessoa muito boa e honesta, mas com uma incrível capacidade de arrumar confusões.
O Mensageiro Trapalhão
O filme começa com um executivo cinematográfico apresentando-o. Ele explica que o filme em si não tem uma história centrada, mas que simplesmente mostra Jerry Lewis como Stanley, um mensageiro, que se mete em absurdas situações, se safando delas de uma cena para outra. Stanley não fala, exceto por alguns segundos antes do desfecho do filme.
O Milagre
Mother Superior
A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.
Startime: Turn of the Screw
Mrs. Grose
The Turn of the Screw was episode 3 of the television program Startime, which aired 33 episodes between October 6, 1959, and May 31, 1960. It was an anthology show of drama, comedy, and variety, and was one of the first American television shows broadcast in color. The program ran on Tuesday nights in the United States on the NBC television network. In The Turn of the Screw, based on the short story by Henry James, a governess (Ingrid Bergman) put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor. The episode was directed by John Frankenheimer and first aired on October 20, 1959. Cast: Ingrid Bergman – Governess, Isobel Elsom – Mrs. Grose, Hayward Morse – Miles, Alexandra Wager – Flora, Paul Stevens – Peter Quint, Laurinda Barrett – Miss Jessel.
Bancando a Ama-Seca
Mrs. Van Cleeve
Clayton Poole (Jerry Lewis) mora em uma pequena cidade chamada Midvale e ainda é apaixonado por Carla Naples (Marilyn Maxwell), uma moça da cidade que se tornou uma grande estrela do cinema. Quando Carla engravida, seu empresário lhe diz que um filho pode arruinar sua carreira. Com medo das consequências e responsabilidades da maternidade, a atriz pede ajuda a Clayton e ele, ingenuamente, acaba aceitando cuidar dos trigêmeos de Carla. Clayton será obrigado fazer alguns sacrifícios se quiser ficar com a guarda das crianças. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Jane Eyre
Mrs Fairfax
Unusual adaptation of the classic novel.
O Renegado do Forte Petticoat
Mrs. Charlotte Ogden
Murphy deserta do Exército da União para avisar os vizinhos do Texas de iminentes ataques indígenas desencadeados por um massacre cometido pelo Exército. Ele supera a desconfiança inicial e convence os colonos (todas as mulheres cujos homens estão fora de combate no Exército Confederado) para se refugiar em uma missão abandonada. Ele as treina para lutar e atirar em antecipação ao ataque. O único outro homem na missão foge para se salvar e acaba levando os índios de volta para a missão.
Mayerling
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--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot her to death and killed himself. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with the facts.
23 Paces to Baker Street
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. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and his ex fiancée, attempt to track down the crooks.
Over-Exposed
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 ambitious clip-joint floozie turned photographer with flexible morals and a penchant for fast money.
Suplício de uma Saudade
Adeline Palmer-Jones
O jornalista americano Mark Elliott é correspondente de guerra em Hong Kong e está separado de sua esposa. Durante os últimos dias da guerra civil chinesa, ele conhece e corteja uma bonita doutora eurasiana, a viúva de um general nacionalista. Mas quando eles começam a se apaixonar, a pressão dos amigos dele e da família chinesa dela os faz interromper o relacionamento inter-racial.
O Ladrão do Rei
Mrs. Bennett
An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.
Bem no Meu Coração
Mrs. Harris
Um filme biográfico sobre o compositor musical e autor Sigmund Romberg, que escreveu obras como 'The Student Prince', 'The Desert Song' e 'The New Moon', entre outras. O título 'Bem no Meu Coração, querido' vem da música 'The student Prince' e é interpretada por artistas e cantores de todas as produções da MGM. Dentre eles estão Cyd Charisse, Rosemary Clooney, Vic Damone e muitos outros. Uma revisão da vida e obra de um dos maiores e mais importantes compositores musicais do cinema. Muitos dos filmes que podemos ver hoje têm alguns de seus temas entre as trilhas sonoras. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Désirée: O Amor de Napoleão
Mme. Clary
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.
The Eternal Melody
Madame Garzin
A group of struggling artists, poets, and musicians struggle to survive in squalor without giving up their artistic ideals.
The Secret Garden
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 encounters at her Uncle's remote estate.
Smart Woman
Mrs. Rogers
A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.
Agonia de Amor
Innkeeper
Anthony Keane (Gregory Peck) é um advogado que fora contratado para defender o caso da Sra. Paradine (Alida Valli), acusada de matar o própio marido. Só que ele acaba por se apaixonar por ela, colocando em risco sua carreira profissional e seu casamento. O que Keane não espera é que a Sra. Paradine tem um caso com outra pessoa, e isso poderá influenciar decisivamente o julgamento final.
Love from a Stranger
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 Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.
Quero-te Junto a Mim
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
Marie Grosnay
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin) é um assassino em série golpista. Ele casa com senhoras ricas e logo depois as mata para ficar com toda a herança. Esse dinheiro ele usa para sustentar sua verdadeira família, que se encontra em dificuldades financeiras desde que Verdoux se deu mal nos negócios.
Ivy
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, and her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.
O Fantasma Apaixonado
Angelica - Mother-in-law
Um ano após a morte do marido, Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) decide não mais viver com a sogra e a cunhada e aluga o "Chalé Gaivota", uma casa a beira-mar, e para lá se muda com sua filha e sua empregada. Porém, logo o fantasma de Daniel Gregg (Rex Harrison), o falecido proprietário da casa que morrera em um suposto suicídio, surge para a amendrontá-la, mas isto não surte efeito e entre os dois nasce gradativamente uma amizade. Assim, quando ela se vê em uma grave situação financeira, ele decide lhe narrar sua vida para ser transformada em livro e tirá-la deste aperto. Posteriormente, Lucy acaba conhecendo um escritor de histórias para crianças e pensa em se casar com ele. Apesar de não concordar com esta decisão, Daniel decide não mais aparecer e fazer com que Lucy acredite que todas as conversas que tiveram juntos foi produto da imaginação dela.
Inspiração Trágica
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. Suffering from mental illness, Geoffrey returns home where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He marries Sally but after a while he finds a strange urge to paint her as the angel of death too and history seems about to repeat itself.
Of Human Bondage
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
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 and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
Medo Que Domina
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 crash was no accident. Elizabeth Howard, the governess he hires to look after his children, makes it her mission to find out the truth. When other murders seem to be following David to his new town, Elizabeth investigates with the help of David's son Barnaby.
Casanova Júnior
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, Cass kidnaps the infant to keep her from being adopted. Isabel's parents hunt for the child and discover that Cass and Isabel are still hopelessly in love.
Between Two Worlds
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 common.
Evocação
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 whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
My Kingdom for a Cook
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
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 land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover.
Forever and a Day
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, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Bonita Como Nunca
Mrs. Maria Castro
O Acunas, uma rica família argentina, seguem a tradição de que as filhas têm de se casar em ordem, primeiro as mais velhas. Quando a irmã # 1 se casa, as irmãs # 3 e # 4, que já escolheram seus futuros maridos, fazem pressão sobre Maria a irmã # 2. Mas Maria ainda não conheceu um homem que goste. O pai Eduardo Acuna, acreditando que os homens não são românticos suficiente nos dias de hoje, envia para sua filha flores e cartas de amor anônimas, criando um "homem misterioso" para ela se apaixonar. Ele pretende escolher um rapaz apropriado para ela mais tarde, para ocupar o papel. Mas Robert Davis, um dançarino americano à procura de trabalho, surge em cena. Maria se apaixona por ele, mas o pai não aprova.
Seven Sweethearts
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 daughters marry in order, from eldest to youngest.
Laugh Your Blues Away
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.
Aço da Mesma Têmpera
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 selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.
Eagle Squadron
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
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 their sibling at Leonora's home, tensions soon lead to murder.
Illegal
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, she decides to use the money from a windfall to open an illegal after hours night club and gambling parlor, in order to provide her two daughters with a high society education. Eventually she gets caught, and the daughters take over the night club and legitimize it. But the daughters have conflicts, and the no-good husband shows up to complicate matters.
The Crooked Lady
Miriam Sinclair
An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.
Stranglehold
Beatrice
A drama film directed by Henry Edwards
Who Is the Man?
Genevieve Arnault
Daniel Arnault an impecunious sculptor, is in love with the beautiful Genevieve. Spurred on by her mercenary and socially ambitious mother , Genevieve consents to marry Daniel's wealthy brother Albert (Langhorn Burton). In despair, Daniel sinks into drug addiction. However the marriage is not a success,...
The Love Story of Aliette Brunton
Aliette Brunton
A faithless K.C.'s wife elopes with his opponent in a slum murder trial.
The Sign of Four
Mary Morstan
The final feature in the Eille Norwood Holmes series.
The Wandering Jew
Olalla Quintana
'The legend of the Wandering Jew, condemned to walk the earth until the Second Coming.' (British Film Institute)
A Debt of Honour
Hope Carteret
In India an engineer blackmails a girl over her gambling brother.
Dick Turpin's Ride to York
Esther Bevis
A highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper.
Aunt Rachel
Ruth
A jilted aunt refuses to let her niece marry a violinist's nephew.
The Man Who Won
Milly Cooper
A proud architect learns his vicar's daughter is adopted, so she weds a workman who inherits a fortune.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor
Isobel 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)