Movies by Isobel Elsom

Startime: The Turn of the Screw
A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.

Two Sisters from Boston
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.

Laugh Your Blues Away
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.

First Comes Courage
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.

The Miracle
A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.

Escape Me Never
A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.
Stranglehold
A novelist living in a boarding house imagines a murder that involves his fellow boarders.
The Crooked Lady
An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.

My Kingdom for a Cook
While visiting Massachusetts, a famous English author (Charles Coburn) faces the wrath of a socialite (Isobel Elsom) after stealing her chef.