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British actress (1893–1981)
Isobel Elsom
Born
Isabelle Reed
(1893-03-16 ) 16 March 1893Died 12 January 1981(1981-01-12) (aged 87 ) Occupation Actress Years active 1915–1964 Spouses
(m. 1942; died 1958)
Isobel Elsom (born Isabelle Reed ; 16 March 1893 – 12 January 1981) was an English film, theatre, and television actress. She was often cast as aristocrats or upper-class women.
Early years [ edit ]
Born in Chesterton , Cambridge, Elsom attended Howard College, Bedford, England.[1]
She debuted on stage in London as a member of the chorus of The Quaker Girl (1911).[2] Gilbert Miller promoted her to stardom in The Outsider .[3]
Over the course of three decades, she appeared in 17 Broadway productions,[4] The Ghost Train (1926).[2] Ladies in Retirement The Innocents Romeo and Juliet silent film era (she frequently co-starred with Owen Nares ) and appeared in nearly 100 films throughout her career.
Elsom appeared as the leading lady for the Elitch Theatre summer season of 1928. At Elitch, she appeared in the role she created in the play The Outsider
If there is anybody in this man's town who doubts that Isobel Elsom, leading woman at the Elitch Gardens Theatre, is an actress of the highest rank, let that doubting Thomas see her work in The Outsider ... She not only is scoring a brilliant personal triumph, but is demonstrating to local playgoers exactly why she was one of the most popular actresses London ever knew![5]
She met her first husband,[6] Maurice Elvey , when he cast her in his 1919 film Quinneys The White Cliffs of Dover The Unseen Of Human Bondage The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Monsieur Verdoux The Paradine Case The Two Mrs. Carrolls The Secret Garden Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Lust for Life 23 Paces to Baker Street The Pleasure Seekers My Fair Lady
She appeared opposite Jerry Lewis in four of his late 1950s/early 1960s films. Elsom's television credits included Armstrong Circle Theatre Hallmark Hall of Fame Lux Video Theatre My Three Sons Alfred Hitchcock Presents Playhouse 90 Hawaiian Eye Straightaway Dr. Kildare
Personal life [ edit ]
Elsom's second husband was actor Carl Harbord , married from 1947 until his death in 1958.[2]
Elsom died of heart failure at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, aged 87.[2]
National Portrait Gallery [ edit ]
Five portraits of Elsom are included in the Photographs Collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.[7]
Partial filmography [ edit ]
Milestones (1916) - Lady Monkhurst
The Way of an Eagle (1918) - Mariel Roscoe
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor (1918) - Isobel Bunter
God Bless Our Red, White and Blue (1918) - The Wife
The Man Who Won (1918) - Milly Cooper
Onward Christian Soldiers
Quinneys
Linked by Fate
Hope (1919) - Jenny Northcote
Edge O' Beyond
A Member of Tattersall's
The Elder Miss Blossom
Mrs. Thompson
Nance
Aunt Rachel
For Her Father's Sake
The Game of Life
Dick Turpin's Ride to York
A Debt of Honour
The Harbour Lights
The Wandering Jew
The Sign of Four
The Love Story of Aliette Brunton
Who Is the Man?
The Last Witness
Le réveil (1925) - Thérèse de Mégèe
Tragedy of a Marriage
Dance Magic
The Other Woman
Stranglehold
The Crooked Lady
Illegal
The Thirteenth Candle (1933) - Lady Sylvia Meeton
The Primrose Path
Eagle Squadron
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Laugh Your Blues Away
Seven Sweethearts
You Were Never Lovelier
Forever and a Day
First Comes Courage
My Kingdom for a Cook
The White Cliffs of Dover
Between Two Worlds
Casanova Brown
The Unseen
Two Sisters from Boston
Of Human Bondage
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
Monsieur Verdoux
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Ivy
Escape Me Never
Love from a Stranger
The Paradine Case
Smart Woman
Addio Mimí! (1949) - Madame Garzin
The Secret Garden
Désirée
Deep in My Heart
The King's Thief
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Over-Exposed
23 Paces to Baker Street
Lust for Life
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Rock-A-Bye Baby
The Young Philadelphians
The Miracle
The Turn of the Screw
The Bellboy
The Errand Boy
The Second Time Around
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Who's Minding the Store?
My Fair Lady
The Pleasure Seekers
References [ edit ]
^ "Isobel Elsom, Coming in 'Ghosts', Stated Career as Chorus Girl" . The Gazette . Canada, Montreal. 6 March 1946. p. 3 . Retrieved 13 November 2020 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Isobel Elsom" . Internet Broadway Database . The Broadway League. Archived from the original on 24 October 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2020 .
^ Borrillo, Theodore A. (2012). Denver's historic Elitch Theatre : a nostalgic journey (a history of its times) ISBN 978-0-9744331-4-1 OCLC 823177622 .
^ This is probably the wrong film for their first meeting. More likely 1923. See Maurice Elvey
^ National Portraits Gallery website
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