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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 · Elsa Lanchester Was Born to Defy Heteronormativity. The reissue of autobiography Elsa Lanchester, Herself, brings forth an engaging woman who helped to queer Hollywood well beyond her role...
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.
Dec 27, 1986 · Actress Elsa Lanchester, a red-haired imp who failed to make it as a danseuse but succeeded in delighting audiences for 60 years with her bawdy cabaret songs and stage and film performances, died...
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.
Aug 30, 2016 · With the two decades from the 1960s to early 1980s, Lanchester was a fixture on episodic TV and an institution in Disney and G-rated fare — perhaps a bit ironic for the unconventional Lanchester. She wrote two autobiographies: Charles Laughton and I (1938) and Elsa Lanchester: Herself (1983), both recalling nearly 100 roles before ...
…animated their new creation (Elsa Lanchester), a grotesque beauty with a frizzled shock of hair, even she rejects the monster by screaming at him in horror. Dejected, the monster destroys Frankenstein’s laboratory, ostensibly killing himself, his mate, and Dr. Pretorius, while allowing the Frankensteins to escape.
An eccentric character player, long in Hollywood with husband Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester is now best remembered, wild-haired and hissing-voiced, as The Bride of Frankenstein (US, d. James Whale, 1935), or of his "monster", and as her creator, Mary Shelley.
