Elsie Ames (May 18, 1902 – May 3, 1983) was an American comic dancer and film actress. Between 1937 and 1974 she acted in 15 films. She is best known as the female film partner of Buster Keaton. Ames was half of the vaudeville team Ames and Arno, doing a slapstick adagio routine. Theirs was a good, standard vaudeville act, as Variety reported in 1938: "Elsie Ames and Nick Arno make every second of their knockabout routine count for laughs. Nothing seems left to chance. Also, a mid-center walloper is the encore." Ames and Arno performed their act on film in the Bing Crosby musical Double or Nothing (1937).