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Elsa Sullivan Lanchester was a British actress with a long career in theatre, film and television.
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entertainment · British-American actress (1902–1986) · stage actor · film actor · television actor · actor · dancer · musician · also Elsa Lanchester, Lanchester, Elsa Laughton
Born 28 October 1902 · Died 26 December 1986 · Q233009
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s interment, during the course of his regular research into historic death certificates, he decided she would be his next memorial project. Her seven-minute, dialogue-free appearance alongside Boris Karloff as the Bride was legendary – she deserved to have her legacy remembered. She was, after all, basically the only female star of the Universal Horror cast, he says.
Stardom is all hard work, aspirins and purgatives.
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“s interment, during the course of his regular research into historic death certificates, he decided she would be his next memorial project. Her seven-minute, dialogue-free appearance alongside Boris Karloff as the Bride was legendary – she deserved to have her legacy remembered. She was, after all, basically the only female star of the Universal Horror cast, he says.”
Tribute: Elsa Lanchester Biography & Movies
Los Angeles Magazine: Fans Gather to Mark the Grave of “Bride of Frankenstein” Actress Elsa Lanchester
However, it was discovered that her cremated remains were instead interred by Herschel Green, her agent, at Valhalla Memorial Park under her married name, Elsa Lanchester Laughton
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BroadwayWorld: Spotlight: ELSA LANCHESTER: SHE'S ALIVE! at Venus Cabaret Theater
BroadwayWorld: Elsa Lanchester: SHE'S ALIVE! at Venus Cabaret
Time Out: Elsa Lanchester: She's Alive!
Released album “Sings Bawdy Cockney Songs”.
Died 1986-12-26.
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“Stardom is all hard work, aspirins and purgatives.”
In 1984, Lanchester's health deteriorated.
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Lanchester's health deteriorated
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In March 1983, she released an autobiography, titled Elsa Lanchester Herself.
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“s burial plot in Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills cemetery – Laughton died in 1962. She wrote she would prefer to be cremated with no funeral service, which is partly why everyone assumed for decades she had her ashes scattered. An interest in death began early for Mr Michaels, who was born and grew up in Detroit. He recalls seeing the tented graveside set-up at a family funeral and asking his mom”
Lanchester resumed her career with appearances in such Disney films as Mary Poppins (1964), Pajama Party (1964), That Darn Cat
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for Witness for the Prosecution (1958).
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And in episodes of NBC's The Eleventh Hour (1964) and The Man From U
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Published a book about her relationship with Laughton, Charles Laughton and I
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Was Peter Pan to Laughton's Captain Hook in J
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Lanchester married Charles Laughton in 1929.
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Appeared in three silent shorts written for her by H
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In the amateur production The Scarlet Woman, which was written by Evelyn Waugh who also appeared in two roles himself
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Born 1902-10-28.
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s burial plot in Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills cemetery – Laughton died in 1962. She wrote she would prefer to be cremated with no funeral service, which is partly why everyone assumed for decades she had her ashes scattered. An interest in death began early for Mr Michaels, who was born and grew up in Detroit. He recalls seeing the tented graveside set-up at a family funeral and asking his mom
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