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Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986) was a British actress with a long career in theatre, film and television. Lanchester studied dance as a child and after the First World War began performing in theatre and cabaret, where she established her career over the following decade.
Elsa Lanchester. Actress: Witness for the Prosecution. Elsa Sullivan Lanchester was born into an unconventional a family at the turn of the 20th century.
Oct 31, 2018 · Oscar-nominated for Supporting Actress in Billy Wilder’s Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Elsa Lanchester might also be remembered as pranking witch Aunt Queenie in Bell, Book and...
Elsa Lanchester, distinguished by an elfin face and a mop of frizzy copper-colored hair, was the daughter of Edith Lanchester and James Sullivan, a pair of radical socialists who refused to marry, thus placing the burden of illegitimacy on their two children.
Dec 27, 1986 · Elsa Lanchester, the stage and screen actress perhaps best known for eccentric and comic roles such as the monster's wife in ''The Bride of Frankenstein,'' died of pneumonia...
Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (October 28, 1902 – December 26, 1986) was a British actress with a long career in theatre, film and television and former dancer. Lanchester studied dance as a child and after the First World War began performing in theatre and cabaret, where she established her career over the following decade.
Gifted character actress, often in eccentric yet wistful parts, in the US from 1934. Perhaps best remembered for her dual roles in "The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935), as both the monster's mate and his "creator," author Mary Shelley, Lanchester also brought her slightly dizzy, perennially...
…met his future wife, actress Elsa Lanchester. He went to New York City in 1931, where he repeated his London stage success in Payment Deferred (1932), and was signed by Paramount Pictures the following year. Cast as a raving lunatic in his first American picture, Devil and the Deep (1932),… Read More “Witness for the Prosecution”
Elsa Lanchester | Rotten Tomatoes. Highest Rated: 100% David Copperfield (1935) Lowest Rated: 33% Pajama Party (1964) Birthday: Oct 28, 1902. Birthplace: Lewisham, London, England, UK. Gifted...
Mar 6, 2024 · Both Burton and Depp say there are major nods to Peter Lorre's 'Mad Love' performance in Sweeney. Oh, and that shock of white in Depp's hair? A sign of Todd's trauma — and possibly a nod to Humphrey Bogart's skunk stripe in his lone horror picture, 'The Return of Dr. X.,' a Burton favorite.
