Isabelle Keith
Isabelle Keith was an American actress.
Keith was born Isobel Keep on May 27, 1898, in Nebraska. She initially was billed under her birth name, but she changed her professional name to Isabelle Keith after she had a bit part in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
She appeared in 42 films between 1919 and 1936, most of them from the MGM studio, and on two occasions with Laurel and Hardy. She played the wife of both Laurel and Hardy, in Perfect Day and Be Big!, respectively.
Keith changed her professional name to Claudelle Kaye for some films, including Manhattan Melodrama.
Keith married Richard Weil, a writer. When she died on July 20, 1979, she was living in Mill Valley, California, and was known as Isabel K. Fowler.
Partial filmography
No Mother to Guide Him as The Maid - a Household Necessity Hearts and Flowers as Bathing Beauty Trying to Get Along as Cabaret Girl Uncle Tom Without a Cabin as Audience Spectator Up in Alf's Place as Bathing Girl A Lady's Tailor as Dancer The Gingham Girl as The City Aunt's Daughter By Golly! as Society Girl Striking Models The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as German Woman She Sighed by the Seaside as Bathing Girl The Desert Flower as Inga HulversonThe Greater Glory as Anna Birbach, Pauli's WifeThe Clinging Vine as House Guest You'd Be Surprised as Party Guest The Night of Love as Wedding Banquet Guest The King of Kings Very Confidential as Adelaide MelbourneHer Wild Oat as Hotel Guest Riley the Cop as French Woman on Pier Anne Against the World as TeddyLeaping Love as Betty Haley / MotherPerfect Day as Mrs. LaurelBarnum Was Right as Phoebe O'DareTheir Own Desire as Isabelle, Polo Player / Snooty Dinner Guest Spring Is Here as Blonde Party Guest with Bess Viennese Nights as Franz's Rejected Girlfriend Be Big! as Mrs. HardyMata Hari as Party Guest -But the Flesh Is Weak as Party Guest Rasputin and the Empress as Party Girl The Barbarian as Train Passenger Broadway to Hollywood as Jenny Carter, Girl in Movie Clip Dancing Lady as Miss Allen, secretary The Women in His Life as Nurse Air Fright as Passenger You Can't Buy Everything as Nurse at clinic Men in White as Nurse Manhattan Melodrama as Miss Adams, Jim's secretary Stamboul Quest as 2nd Nun Evelyn Prentice as Prentice's secretary, Miss Meade The Gay Birdie as MacPherson's Secretary Society Doctor as Nurse The Unwelcome Stranger as Mrs. Forbes Reckless as Woman in Audience Who Throws Purse The Flame Within as Nurse Carter Calm Yourself as Mrs. Gloria Lansell Woman Wanted as Telephone Operator Anna Karenina as Wife - First Couple It's in the Air as Guest at money auction Doughnuts and Society as Miss Bradley How to Behave as Alfred's Wife, Party Hostess Speed as Nurse Between Two Women as Nurse
Trivia
Keith, as Claudelle Kaye, played William Powell's secretary in Manhattan Melodrama, the picture John Dillinger watched in Chicago's Biograph Theater just before walking out into the FBI's fatal ambuscade in July 1934.