Sneha Girap (Editor)

Isobel Elsom

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Full Name  Isabelle Reed
Role  Television actress
Name  Isobel Elsom

Years active  1915–1964
Occupation  Actress
Resting place  Cremation
Isobel Elsom wwwnndbcompeople215000078978isobelelsom5s

Born  16 March 1893 (1893-03-16) Chesterton, Cambridge, England
Died  January 12, 1981, Woodland Hills, California, United States
Spouse  Carl Harbord (m. 1942–1958), Maurice Elvey (m. 1923)
Movies  My Fair Lady, Love Is a Many‑Splendored Thing, Monsieur Verdoux, The Ghost and Mrs Muir, You Were Never Lovelier
Similar People  Maurice Elvey, Carl Harbord, Roland Totheroh, Henry King, William A Seiter

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

Contents

Isobel Elsom Isobel Elsom Wikipedia

Career

Born Isabelle Reed in Chesterton, Cambridge, Elsom usually was cast as an aristocratic lady of the upper class. She attended Howard College, Bedford England. Over the course of three decades she appeared in 17 Broadway productions, beginning with The Ghost Train in 1926. Her best-known stage role was the wealthy murder victim in Ladies in Retirement (1939), a role she repeated in the 1941 film version. Her other theatre credits included The Innocents and Romeo and Juliet. Elsom made her first screen appearance during the silent film era (she frequently co-starred with Owen Nares) and appeared in nearly 100 films throughout her career.

Isobel Elsom Stage Beauty

She met her first husband, director Maurice Elvey, when he cast her in his 1919 film Quinneys. He went on to direct her in eight more films before they divorced. Elsom's other screen credits included The White Cliffs of Dover (1944), The Unseen (1945), Of Human Bondage (1946), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Monsieur Verdoux, The Paradine Case, and The Two Mrs. Carrolls (all 1947), The Secret Garden (1949), Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), Lust for Life and 23 Paces to Baker Street (both 1956), and The Pleasure Seekers and My Fair Lady (both 1964).

Isobel Elsom Who is Isobel Elsom dating Isobel Elsom boyfriend husband

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 (at least 4 appearances), Playhouse 90, Hawaiian Eye, and Dr. Kildare.

Family/death

Isobel Elsom Isobel Elsom The Movie Database TMDb

Elsom's second husband was actor Carl Harbord, from 1942 until his death in 1958. She had no children.

Death

Isobel Elsom Isobel Elsom Biography and Filmography 1893

She died in Woodland Hills, California, aged 87.

Five portraits of Elsom are included in the Photographs Collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.

References

Isobel Elsom Wikipedia