Isobel Elsom
Also Known As: Isabel Elsom, Isabelle Reed
Biography: Isobel Elsom (March 16, 1893 — January 12, 1981) was an English screen, stage, and television actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: March 15, 1893
Age: 132 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: January 12, 1981
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Monsieur Verdoux
Overview: The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-26
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The Paradine Case
Overview: Attorney Anthony Keane agrees to represent Londonite Mrs. Paradine, who has been fingered in her husband's murder. From the start, the married lawyer is drawn to the enigmatic beauty, and he begins to cast about for a way to exonerate his client. Keane puts the Paradine household servant on the stand, suggesting he is the killer. But Keane soon loses his way in the courtroom, and his half-baked plan sets off a stunning chain of events.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-31
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Over-Exposed
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-01
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Between Two Worlds
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-20
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The Two Mrs. Carrolls
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-04
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Ladies in Retirement
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-09
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You Were Never Lovelier
Overview: An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-19
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Ivy
Overview: 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. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-26
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The Unseen
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-12
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23 Paces to Baker Street
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-18
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Love from a Stranger
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-15
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Overview: A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-18
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First Comes Courage
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-29
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Escape Me Never
Overview: A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-07
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The King's Thief
Overview: An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.
Genres: Adventure History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-05
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The Second Time Around
Overview: 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 gambler and a rancher become rivals for her affections.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-22
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The Miracle
Overview: A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-12
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Illegal
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-26
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Of Human Bondage
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-05
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Overview: A young British widow rents a seaside cottage and soon becomes haunted by the ghost of its former owner.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-25
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Casanova Brown
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-23
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Rock-a-Bye Baby
Overview: 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 suffer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-23
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Désirée
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-16
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My Fair Lady
Overview: A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-21
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The Man Who Won
Overview: A proud architect learns his vicar's daughter is adopted, so she weds a workman who inherits a fortune.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-01
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The Pleasure Seekers
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-25
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Startime: The Turn of the Screw
Overview: A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-20
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The Bellboy
Overview: 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 facial expressions and a comedic slapstick style. And anything that can go wrong, does go wrong when Stanley is involved. One day, Jerry Lewis arrives at the hotel and some of the staff notice the striking resemblance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-20
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Deep in My Heart
Overview: Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-09
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The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-07
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Eagle Squadron
Overview: An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-16
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Human Law
Overview: A jealous husband leaves jail to find his wife loves his lawyer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-28
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The Eternal Melody
Overview: A group of struggling artists, poets, and musicians struggle to survive in squalor without giving up their artistic ideals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-12-02
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The Tower of London
Overview: 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 the crown of England but insists on wielding power alone.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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Glamis Castle
Overview: British horror drama short from 1926.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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Jane Eyre
Overview: Unusual adaptation of the classic novel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-16
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Aunt Rachel
Overview: A jilted aunt refuses to let her niece marry a violinist's nephew.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-02
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Milestones
Overview: Family saga about several generations of shipbuilders. Believed to be a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-01
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Who Is the Man?
Overview: 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,...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-01
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The Love Story of Aliette Brunton
Overview: A faithless K.C.'s wife elopes with his opponent in a slum murder trial.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-01
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A Debt of Honour
Overview: In India an engineer blackmails a girl over her gambling brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-01
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Dick Turpin's Ride to York
Overview: A highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-01
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The Crooked Lady
Overview: An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-16
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Stranglehold
Overview: A novelist living in a boarding house imagines a murder that involves his fellow boarders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-01
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The White Cliffs of Dover
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-11
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My Kingdom for a Cook
Overview: While visiting Massachusetts, a famous English author (Charles Coburn) faces the wrath of a socialite (Isobel Elsom) after stealing her chef.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-27
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Smart Woman
Overview: A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-30
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Who's Minding the Store?
Overview: 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 dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in an attempt to humiliate him enough that Barbara leaves him. Will she ruin their love, or will he ruin her store?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-28
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The Errand Boy
Overview: 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 mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-28
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Laugh Your Blues Away
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-12
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Two Sisters from Boston
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-06
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The Sign of Four
Overview: The final feature in the Eille Norwood Holmes series.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-01
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Forever and a Day
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-21
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The Secret Garden
Overview: 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.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-30
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The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Overview: 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 Texas. He knows that the attack will send all of the tribes on the warpath and he wants to forewarn everyone. He gets a chilly reception back home however. With most of the men away having enlisted in the Confederate army Frank, a Union officer, is seen by the local women as a traitor. He convinces them of the danger that lies ahead and trains them to repel the attack that will eventually come.
Genres: Western Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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Seven Sweethearts
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-13
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Mayerling
Overview: 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.
Genres: TV Movie Romance War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-04
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The Wandering Jew
Overview: 'The legend of the Wandering Jew, condemned to walk the earth until the Second Coming.' (British Film Institute)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-01
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor
Overview: '1860-1910. Life of a mayor's daughter if she married (a) a rich baronet; (b) a poor shopkeeper; (c) nobody.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-01
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The Thirteenth Candle
Overview: Investigation into the murder of a village squire.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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The Game of Life
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Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-01
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Mrs. Thompson
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-01
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The Edge o' Beyond
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-01
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The Elder Miss Blossom
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-01
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Lust for Life
Overview: An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-15
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