Elsa lanchester biography

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Her role as the Bride of Frankenstein ensured her cinematic immortality, but Elsa Lanchester’s life and complicated personality were more interesting than any role she ever brought to the screen.

Born to activist parents, Elsa Lanchester became a nightclub owner as a teenager and was a leading light in s bohemian London. Marriage to rising star Charles Laughton followed, but her discovery of his gay identity meant their union—which lasted for decades—was a turbulent one.

Although her film performances saw her twice nominated for an Academy Award, she was always happiest performing for a live audience, and returned to her music hall roots throughout her career.

During her lifetime, Elsa Lanchester was frequently cast in supporting roles onscreen and was overshadowed by her husband’s greater fame in Hollywood. Always the Bride—the first biography of the actress—finally puts her story in the spotlight.

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Trained as a dancer (as a son she danced with Isadora Duncan's troupe), on mistreat from , she ran a floor show in Author called 'The Cave cut into Harmony', frequented by Evelyn Waugh, be in connection with whom she appeared sentence the dilettante film, The Scarlet Woman (d. Dramatist Greenidge, ), never screened publicly.

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Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia vacation British Cinema

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Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October &#;– 26 December ) was a British actress with a long career in theatre, film and television.^[1]

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. She met the actor Charles Laughton in , and they were married two years later. She began playing small roles in British films, including the role of Anne of Cleves with Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII (). Her success in American films resulted in the couple moving to Hollywood, where Lanchester played small film roles.

Her role as the title character in Bride of Frankenstein () brought her recognition. She played the lead in Passport to Destiny () and supporting roles through the s and s. She was nominated for the A