#isobel elsom

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Charlie Chaplin & Isobel Elsom set of “Monsieur Verdoux” (1947)

She played a the role of Madame Grosnay, a part Edna Purviance was once considered for.

According to Chaplin biographer David Robinson: “Edna Purviance did read for the part – not badly, Chaplin conceded – and spent the next month at the studio, testing and rehearsing. Gradually, it became evident that it would not work: the sophistication of a Continental Grande Dame was not in her line. Her presence was too melancholy a reminder of the old times when everything still lay in the future”

Chaplin His Life and Art by David Robinson (2001) pg. 579

#charlie chaplin #isobel elsom #set of “monsieur verdoux” #1947

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Monsieur Verdoux (1947) Charlie Chaplin

January 2nd 2023

#monsieur verdoux #1947 #charlie chaplin #martha raye #marilyn nash #isobel elsom #marjorie bennett #mady correll #robert lewis #margaret hoffman #almira sessions #edwin mills #lois conklin #edna purviance #orson welles #a comedy of murders #the ladykiller #monsieur verdoux: a comedy of murders

[ozu-teapot]

The Two Mrs. Carrolls | Peter Godfrey | 1947

Patrick O'Moore, Barbara Stanwyck, Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Isobel Elsom

#Patrick O'Moore #Barbara Stanwyck #Humphrey Bogart #Alexis Smith #Isobel Elsom #Peter Godfrey #The Two Mrs. Carrolls #1947

[byneddiedingo]

Isobel Elsom and Ida Lupino in Ladies in Retirement (Charles Vidor, 1941)

Cast: Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Edith Barrett, Isobel Elsom, Emma Dunn, Queenie Leonard, Clyde Cook. Screenplay: Garrett Fort, Reginald Denham, based on a play by Denham and Edward Percy. Cinematography: George Barnes. Production design: Lionel Banks. Music: Ernst Toch.

Ladies in Retirement, a nifty little thriller included in the Criterion Channel's "Noir by Gaslight" series, centers on a steely performance by Ida Lupino. She plays Ellen Creed, a Victorian spinster trying to make a life for herself and her two eccentric sisters, Emily (Elsa Lanchester) and Louisa (Edith Barrett). The sisters have been living in London with a family that has become fed up with them, so Ellen is forced to persuade her employer to let them come live with her in a somewhat gloomy house on the edge of a marshland. The employer, whom Ellen serves as a kind of companion/housekeeper, is the imperious Leonora Fiske (Isobel Elsom), a retired "actress." (We later learn that she was only a fourth-from-the-right chorus girl, who managed to accumulate a small fortune from stage door johnnies and wealthy patrons.) Unfortunately, the sisters manage to alienate Leonora as well. Louisa is batty and hypersensitive, and Emily is brusque and a collector of things she picks up on her walks, like shells and birds' nests and even a dead bird, which she leaves scattered around the house that Leonora bullies the maid-of-all-work, Lucy (Evelyn Keyes), to keep immaculate. Ellen knows that she can't make a living for herself and her sisters, and she doesn't want them sent to an asylum, so she decides to take things, which means Leonora's neck, in her own hands. Curtain on act one. (The stage origins of the movie are apparent throughout.) Enter Albert Feather (Louis Hayward), a somewhat distant relative of the Creed women, who calls Ellen "Auntie" and charms the sisters. He also charms Lucy. Albert has been to the house before, while Ellen was in London collecting her sisters, and managed to flatter Leonora into giving him some money. But now he's on the lam, wanted for embezzlement from the bank where he worked. When he finds that Leonora is gone -- "on a trip," as the story goes -- he begins to suspect that Ellen is hiding something. And so the plot hinges on his quest to uncover Ellen's secrets, with the aid of the infatuated Lucy. It's a nicely paced movie, with fine performances, especially by Barrett and Lanchester as the weird sisters. Though remembered today more as a director than as an actor, Lupino, then in her early 20s, excels in a part that had been played on Broadway by the much older Flora Robson. Although Louisa and Emily are the more flamboyantly mad of the sisters, Lupino manages to hint that Ellen is the maddest of them all.

#Ladies in Retirement #Charles Vidor #Isobel Elsom #Ida Lupino

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#isobel elsom

[autumncottageattic]

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing 1955

The film was adapted from the 1952 autobiographical novel A Many-Splendoured Thing by Han Suyin.

#Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing 1955 #love is a many-splendored thing #vintage hollywood #old hollywood #classic hollywood #golden hollywood #hollywood golden age #old movies #vintage movies #drama film #dramatic love story #book adaptation #Han Suyin #William Holden #Jennifer Jones #Isobel Elsom

[genevieveetguy]

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself, even if it's people you love.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1947)

#Joseph L. Mankiewicz #Philip Dunne #Gene Tierney #Rex Harrison #George Sanders #Edna Best #Vanessa Brown #Anna Lee #Robert Coote #Natalie Wood #Isobel Elsom #Victoria Horne #Charles Lang #Bernard Herrmann #Dorothy Spencer #1947

[tarlosislove]

THEY JUST CANCELED ROSWELL NEW MEXICO IM GONNA RIOT

#lgbtq #queer #lgbtqa #gay couple #gay #bisexual #roswell new mexico #roswellnm #michael guerin #alex maines #liz ortecho #isobel elsom #max evans #echo #alex x michael #FUCK (and I mean this with the utmost disrespect) THE CW

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

#Ladies in Retirement #Ida Lupino #Louis Hayward #Evelyn Keyes #Elsa Lanchester #Edith Barrett #Isobel Elsom #Emma Dunn #Queenie Leonard #Clyde Cook #Charles Vidor #1941

[ulrichgebert]

Zum Schluss wird es dann doch etwas pathetisch, beklagt der Tobi an Charles Chaplins ansonsten reizender Gattinen-Serienmörder-Komödie Monsieur Verdoux. Aber wird es ja irgendwie immer.

#Monsieur Verdoux #Martha Raye #Isobel Elsom #Marilyn Nash #Mady Correll #Margaret Hoffman #Film gesehen #Charles Chaplin

[johngarfieldtribute]

JULIE DOING "STUFF WITH FAMOUS PEOPLE (16th post in the series)

Julie and Ida Lupino are two dreamers who connect in THE SEA WOLF shown above. She WILL be into his vibe.

With Brenda Marshall in a scene from EAST OF THE RIVER. Brenda is NOT into him! Ugh!

In a scene from BETWEEN TWO WORLDS with Isobel Elsom. She is not into him as he is beneath her! Hmmpphh!

See! We didn’t always use plastic bags! Julie’s with Priscilla Lane and some groceries in DUST BE MY DESTINY. She IS into him.

Julie poses with Gloria Dickson in THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL. Of course. She is SO into him.

Julie with Frances Farmer in FLOWING GOLD. She flows hot and cold about being into him.

Looking over a script on the HUMORESQUE set with Joan Crawford and director, Jean Negulesco. Joan’s character is SUICIDALLY into him.

Last one! He is NOT into him. Julie is being given an ultimatum from Burgess Meredith in CASTLE ON THE HUDSON.

Julie and director, Anatole Litvak discuss a scene from CASTLE ON the HUDSON.

Find Julie (near left side) in this crowd celebrating at the first anniversary party for the Hollywood Canteen. Among those assembled for the photo along with Julie are Mervin LeRoy, Kay Keyser, Gracie Allen, George Burns, Bob Hope, Jane Wyman, and Hedy Lamarr. Where’s Bette Davis? Guess she took the photo. 😜

#john garfield #hollywood canteen #joan crawford #brenda marshall #priscilla lane #frances farmer #Gloria Dickson #ida lupino #Julie doing “stuff” with famous people

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Ladies in Retirement (1941) Charles Vidor

September 4th 2023

#ladies in retirement #1941 #charles vidor #ida lupino #louis hayward #evelyn keyes #elsa lanchester #edith barrett #isobel elsom #emma dunn #clyde cook #queenie leonard

[goodeveningpodcast]

Episode 116 - The Three Dreams of Mr. Findlater

Hello, dear listeners, and happy holidays!

At long last, we’re pleased to present our coverage of “The Three Dreams of Mr. Findlater.” Although it might not be exactly holiday-themed, it does involve John Williams and Isobel Elsom reprising their roles of unhappily married couple from “Back to Christmas,” and that surely counts as a little festive? It’s a stretch, but no more of a stretch than some of Al’s burns. BURN. In any case, thank you again for your patience as we’ve worked to get this episode out!

We also announce on this episode that, due to currently jam-packed schedules, we will be taking an indefinite hiatus as we move into 2023. We will miss sharing new episodes with you, and we cannot tell you how grateful we are for your ongoing listenership, suggestions, and support. Some of you have been tuning in since we began this humble ‘cast five years ago, and we so appreciate you. It’s been a joy sharing our niche love of AHP with you, and we hope that sometime in the future, we’ll be able to return to your podcast feed. For now, we’re sending all our gratitude and wishing you the happiest new year!

And now for the ol’ episode description:

Ernest Findlater is an upper crust gentleman with a simple desire: he wishes to be whisked away to an island paradise where he can be doted on by a loving young woman named Lalage—a far cry from his actual stuffy reality and acrimonious marriage. For a time, Ernest’s desires are confined only to his daydreams, but when he finds a gun in an abandoned car, another dream begins to take shape: a dream of murder most foul. With the help of his imaginary girlfriend Lalage, Ernest begins to painstakingly plot both his wife’s demise and his own airtight alibi. But could it be that all of Ernest’s scheming is in vain?

Burn-o-Meter: N/A Overall Rating: 7.5 fake mustaches

[byneddiedingo]

Between Two Worlds (Edward A. Blatt, 1944) Cast: John Garfield, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Eleanor Parker, Edmund Gwenn, George Tobias, George Coulouris, Faye Emerson, Sara Allgood, Dennis King, Isobel Elsom, Gilbert Emery. Screenplay: Daniel Fuchs, based on a play by Sutton Vane. Cinematography: Carl E. Guthrie. Art direction: Hugh Reticker. Film editing: Rudi Fehr. Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Sutton Vane's old warhorse of a play Outward Bound made its debut on Broadway in 1924 and became a community theater staple for many years after. It's a fantasy about the afterlife, in which passengers on a ship gradually come to realize that they're dead and will be judged by a man known as the Examiner, who will send them to their just deserts. Warner Bros. filmed it in 1930 with Leslie Howard as the cynical newspaperman Tom Prior and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as the suicidal Henry, a role Howard had played on stage. In 1944 the studio decided it was time for a remake that would update the story to the war years: A group of people are desperate to get out of England during the Blitz and decide to risk sailing to America. Among them is Henry Bergner, a concert pianist who has been part of the Resistance in France but whose nerves have been shattered so that he can't take it anymore. When he's turned down because he doesn't have an exit permit, he decides to kill himself, so he returns to the flat he shares with his wife, Ann (Eleanor Parker), seals the windows shut, and turns on the gas. But Ann has pursued him to the steamship office, and when she finds out he has just left, she rushes into the street just in time to see a car carrying people who have successfully booked passage -- we have been introduced to them earlier -- blown to bits. She hurries on to the flat and discovers what Henry has done, so she decides to join him in death. Cut to the ship, where she and Henry join the people who have just been blown up. Henry and Ann realize that they're dead, but they're advised by the ship's steward, Scrubby (Edmund Gwenn), not to let the others know just yet. And so it goes, as the passengers gradually awake to the truth of their condition and undergo judgment by the Examiner, who was once an Anglican clergyman. Sydney Greenstreet plays him with his usual affably sinister manner -- in his scenes with Henreid it's a bit like watching Victor Laszlo being judged by Kasper Gutman. The bad people -- an arrogant capitalist played by George Coulouris and a snobbish society dame played by Isobel Elsom -- get dispatched to punishment; the sinful but worthy -- Garfield's raffish journalist and Faye Emerson's conscience-stricken playgirl/actress -- are provided with a measure of redemption. And then there are the suicides, Henry and Ann. It's revealed that their lot is to serve aboard these postmortem ships for eternity, like the steward Scrubby, who had killed himself. Since condoning suicide was taboo, especially under the Catholic-administered Production Code, the script has to provide an out for the attractive, repentant couple, and it does. There's a lot of stiff acting in the movie -- Garfield's is the only really naturalistic performance -- and the dialogue is full of heavy-handed exposition speeches. The capitalist and the socialite never rise above caricature, and there's a sentimental tribute to mother love. This is the first of only three films directed by Edward A. Blatt, and it's easy to see why there weren't more.

#Between Two Worlds #Edward A. Blatt #John Garfield #Paul Henreid #Eleanor Parkter #Sydney Greenstreet #Edmund Gwenn #Faye Emerson

[sporadiceagleheart]

Rest in peace Those Who died deserves this honor of their names that's why this is Thursday edit April 18th to remember the legacy of the Angels that died Jesus healed them and they went on to heaven home in the sky

Rebecca Jeanne Riley, Sally Ann Chesebro, Jane Eilish Preston January 3, 2017 - October 3, 2020, Calla Adelaide Andrus, Gabrielle Renae “Gabby” Barrett, Lauren Victoria “Tori” Windsor Whetzel, Gabrielly “Gabi” Magalhães de Souza, Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, Terence Pinder the 18 year old that was shot and killed in 1800 block of Hicks Street, Star Hobson, Saffie-Rose Brenda Roussos, Lily Peters, Olivia Pratt Korbel, Elizabeth Shelley, Sara Sharif, Charlotte Figi, Jersey Dianne Bridgeman, Charlotte Bacon, Charlotte Louise Dunn, Emily Grace Jones, Ava Jordan Wood, Olivia Engel, Josephine Gay, Emilie Parker, Jackie Cazares, Makenna Lee Elrod, Eliahna Torres, Nevaeh Bravo, Layla Salazar, Jayce Carmelo Luevanos, Jailah Nicole Silguero, Bianca Devins, Catherine Violet Hubbard, Taylor Jean Moore, Destiny Norton, Destiny Riekeberg, JonBenèt Ramsey, Kelly Ann Fleming, Judith and Maria Barsi, Heather Michele O'Rourke, Lucille Ricksen, Indie Rose Armstrong, Rachel Joy Scott, Skylar Annette "Sky " Neese, Tristyn Bailey, Olivia Dahl, Lily Rose Diaz, Riley Faith Steep, Rylie Nicholls, Ava Martin White, James Bulger, Amerie Jo Garza, Maite Rodriguez, Alexandria Rubio, Joan of Arc, Jimmy the Crow, Dickey Betts, Kinsleigh Welty, Gracie Perry Watson, Inez Clarke Briggs, Annie Kerr Aiken, Grace Budd, Sloan Mattingly, Audrii Cunningham, Happy Birthday Isabella Nardoni, Bella Claire Callaway, Calla Adelaide Woods, Rose Pizem, Riley Ann Sawyers, Riley Ann Fox, Anne and Margot Frank, Shan'ann, Bella&CeCe, Lallie Charles, Isobel Elsom, Jordan Rosales, Jeremiah, Ava Cole Nichols, Pauline Adelaar and Peter Fuchs, Anna D. Crnkovic, Irmgard Christine Winter, Olga Chardymova, Eliza Adalynn Moore, Lois Janes, Louis XVII, Sarah Payne, Alicia Lynn Clark, Mercedes Losoya, Norah Lee Howard, Sandra Cantu, Jessica Lunsford, Sierra Lynn Newbold, Samantha Bree Runnion, Samantha Davis, Dr. Jeremy and Avielle Richman, Beatriz Mota, Danielle Van Dam, Baby LeRoy, Shirley Temple and more kids

[therileyandkimmyshow]

Podcast Actress Isobel Elsom Golden Age of Radio Tribute

#podcast #radio #nostalgia #audio #otr #talk #golden age #old time radio