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Seems fitting being Halloween weekend that The Queen of the monster the Bride of Frankenstein should celebrate a birthday.
Elsa Lanchester (October 28, 1902–December 26, 1986), was a British-born American character actress, perhaps best-known as the long-suffering wife of Charles Laughton. Her birth name was Elizabeth Sullivan.
Lanchester married Laughton in 1929, and one of her first screen appearances was opposite him in The Private Life of Henry VIII (as a highly comical Anne of Cleves). This and other appearances in British films helped her gain the title role in Bride of Frankenstein (1935). She continued to appear with her husband, for example in Rembrandt (1936), but never made a name as a female lead, mainly due to her lack of conventional beauty.
Following Laughton's death in 1962, Lanchester continued to act, making occasional film appearances such as the departing nanny, Katie Nanna, in the opening scenes of Mary Poppins, and a sleuth based on 'Jane Marple' in the 1976 murder mystery spoof, Murder by Death.
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Listen to samples of her Bawdy Cockney Songs here
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Quotes
"She looked as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth-or anywhere else."
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips."
"I thought she was a Method Actress. Afterwards somebody informed me that she was merely a manic-depressive."
Elsa Lanchester (October 28, 1902–December 26, 1986), was a British-born American character actress, perhaps best-known as the long-suffering wife of Charles Laughton. Her birth name was Elizabeth Sullivan.
Lanchester married Laughton in 1929, and one of her first screen appearances was opposite him in The Private Life of Henry VIII (as a highly comical Anne of Cleves). This and other appearances in British films helped her gain the title role in Bride of Frankenstein (1935). She continued to appear with her husband, for example in Rembrandt (1936), but never made a name as a female lead, mainly due to her lack of conventional beauty.
Following Laughton's death in 1962, Lanchester continued to act, making occasional film appearances such as the departing nanny, Katie Nanna, in the opening scenes of Mary Poppins, and a sleuth based on 'Jane Marple' in the 1976 murder mystery spoof, Murder by Death.
www.cultsirens.com/lanchest...ester.htm
www.screenonline.org.uk/people...486033/
movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movi...aphy.html
www.imdb.com/name/nm0006471/
Listen to samples of her Bawdy Cockney Songs here
www.amazon.com/exec/obido...863-1968831
Quotes
"She looked as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth-or anywhere else."
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips."
"I thought she was a Method Actress. Afterwards somebody informed me that she was merely a manic-depressive."
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