6 Best Isabel Elsom Movies

By Vlad Zakh · March 31, 2026

Isabel Elsom brought an elegant, refined English presence to Hollywood across five decades and often played aristocratic mothers and society women. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir falls a widow for a ghost in a haunted cottage, Monsieur Verdoux marries and murders wealthy widows, Of Human Bondage obsesses a medical student over a cruel waitress, and My Fair Lady transforms a flower girl into a lady. Between Two Worlds and Ladies in Retirement round out the list.

My Fair Lady (1964)

IMDb ★ 7.7 RT 94% Metacritic 95

A phonetics professor bets he can pass a Cockney flower girl off as a duchess.

Directed by George Cukor · 2h 53m · Rated G

Won 8 Oscars26 wins & 13 nominations

Where to watch

Stream: fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, Philo, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, MGM Plus · Rent: JustWatch TV, Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home · Buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

TMDB ★ 7.6

A charming, unemployed bank clerk marries and murders a series of wealthy widows to support his family.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin · 2h 04m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Stream: HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, TCM, HBO Max · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Fandango At Home

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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)

TMDB ★ 7.7

Anna Lee appears as a widow who moves into a haunted seaside cottage and falls for the gruff ghost who lives there.

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz · 1h 45m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Stream: fuboTV, YouTube TV · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Of Human Bondage (1946)

TMDB ★ 6.4

Isabel Elsom appears in this adaptation about a club-footed medical student whose obsessive love for a cruel waitress derails his ambitions.

Directed by Edmund Goulding · 1h 45m

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Between Two Worlds (1944)

TMDB ★ 7.1

Isabel Elsom is among the passengers on a mysterious ocean liner who slowly realise they may already be dead.

Directed by Edward A. Blatt · 1h 52m · Rated NR

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Ladies in Retirement (1941)

TMDB ★ 7.2

A housekeeper's two mentally unstable sisters move in with her employer, with increasingly dark consequences.

Directed by Charles Vidor · 1h 31m

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Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix. He started the site because most recommendation pages felt like noise. Here, lists are sorted by who's in the film, where it's from and what mood you're in tonight.

6 Best Isabel Elsom Movies

My Fair Lady (1964)

Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)

Of Human Bondage (1946)

Between Two Worlds (1944)

Ladies in Retirement (1941)

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