Biography: Isobel Elsom |
A stage actress of long standing in her native England, aristocratic leading lady Isobel Elsom made her first Broadway appearance in 1926. Her biggest stage hit was in the role of the wealthy murder victim in 1939's Ladies in Retirement, a role she... more
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Length: 80min
This forgettable piece of 1950s sleaze stars Cleo Moore as a voluptuous blonde who becomes a successful commercial photographer. Richard Crenna, making a major break from his TV image as Our Miss Brooks' Walter Denton, plays a reporter who takes a...
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
Cast: William Holden Henry King Jennifer Jones
Tags: Melodrama Romance Romantic Drama Drama
Length: 102min
Based on the autobiographical novel by Han Suyin, Love is a Many Splendored Thing was evocatively location-filmed in Hong Kong. Jennifer Jones plays Ms. Suyin, a Eurasian doctor and the widow of a Chinese general. She falls in love with American news...
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Cast: Natalie Wood Joseph L. Mankiewicz Bernard Herrmann Rex Harrison George Sanders Gene Tierney
Tags: Romantic Fantasy Fantasy Romance
Length: 104min
Like its TV-sitcom counterpart of the 1960s, the original film version of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir was based on the novel by R.A. Dick. Gene Tierney plays turn-of-the-century widow Lucy Muir, who escapes her impossible in-laws by moving into an old...
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller
Length: 81min
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie and play by Frank Vosper, Love From a Stranger isn't quite as good as the 1937 version of the same property. This time, Sylvia Sidney and John Hodiak play the roles originally filled by Ann Harding and Basil...
Cast: Charles Chaplin
Tags: Crime Comedy Comedy Drama Black Comedy
Length: 125min
"Von Clausewitz said that war is the logical extension of diplomacy; Monsieur Verdoux feels that murder is the logical extension of business." With his controversial "comedy of murders" Monsieur Verdoux, Charles Chaplin makes his final, definitive...
Cast: Humphrey Bogart Barbara Stanwyck
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller Paranoid Thriller
Length: 99min
Humphrey Bogart plays a psychotic killer who disposes of his wives through slow ingestion of poison in The Two Mrs. Carrolls, made in 1945 but shelved for two years because of its similarity to Gaslight. Bogart is Geoffrey Carroll, an artist who...
Cast: Joan Fontaine Cedric Hardwicke
Length: 98min
In this period drama, Joan Fontaine stars as Ivy Lexton, a woman with an unusual hunger for men. Though she already has a husband, Jervis (Richard Ney), and is having an affair with Roger Gretorex (Patric Knowles), Ivy becomes obsessed with Miles...
Cast: Errol Flynn Gig Young Ida Lupino
Length: 101min
Based on a play and novel by Margaret Kennedy, Escape Me Never is a remake of the same-named 1935 British film. Largely set in Italy, the story concerns the relationship between poverty-stricken musician Sebastian Dunbrok (Errol Flynn) and unwed...
Length: 65min
Jinx Falkenburg supplies the music and beauty and Bert Gordon provides the chuckles in Columbia's Laugh Your Blues Away. In his standard "Mad Russian" characterization ("How do you doooooo!"), Gordon plays an unemployed actor who poses as one Count...
Cast: Herbert Marshall Joel McCrea
Tags: Mystery Psychological Thriller
Length: 81min
This follow-up to the classic Hollywood ghost story The Uninvited doesn't quite measure up to its predecessor. Joel McCrea stars as widower Davie Fielding, who has long been suspected of bringing about his wife's death. It helps not at all when a...
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