Isabelle Keith

Isabelle Keith (born Isobel Keep; May 27, 1898 – July 20, 1979) 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 (1921).

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 (1934).

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.

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.