Elsa Lanchester Biography
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Celebrating the extraordinary life and career of Elsa Lanchester. Definitive biography 'Bride of the Hunchback' coming in 2025 from @FAB_Press.
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On Sunday 13th July, at 2pm, a plaque honouring Elsa & Biddy Lanchester will be unveiled at 27 Leathwaite Road, Battersea. Come and meet me, my pal Charlotte Booker, Dillie Keane from Fascinating Aida, & other Elsa fans. Hot weather expected. I may not even wear a waistcoat.
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Holy moly! This is RARE. Before Laserdisc, there was Discovision. This is a shrink-wrapped 1978 video disc of Bride of Frankenstein (transferred from an original 1935 nitrate print, according to . I can't play it, but it would be a lovely thing to own.
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Hie thee over to eBay folks if you want to get your hands on this signed Turnabout Theatre program. They don't turn up all that often and I've never seen an autographed one before.
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Fab behind-the-scenes photo of Elsa and Keenan Wynn rehearsing (or pretending to rehearse!) on The Glass Slipper (1955).
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RT @jeanne_rathbone: Elsa and Edith Lanchester Bride of Frankenstein plaque unveiling by Dillie Keane on Sunday 13th July at 2 at 27 Leathw….
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Wow - what an incredible photo. Never seen this before.
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Huge thanks to @StevenMcBrien for finding this fantastic two-minute clip of Elsa at home in 1951. There's no indication of where this footage originates from, but it's terrific!
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RT @jeanne_rathbone: Elsa Lanchester #EdithLanchester @BattersseaSociety plaque unveiling at 27 Leathwaite Road on Sunday 13th July at 2….
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Elsa played different characters in two episodes of a show unlikely to be repeated, The Bill Cosby Show. 'The Elevator Doesn't Stop Here Any More' (with Henry Fonda!) is a terrific half-hour of character comedy, but 'The Power of a Tree' is kind of weak and silly.
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Charles and Elsa, in a still from The Beachcomber, on the cover of Family Circle magazine, 30th December 1938.
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Elsa on a Mexican lobby card for the 1967 Elvis picture Easy Come, Easy Go. It is not one of The King's finest moments.
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Tantalisingly, there is no image of this on but goodness, wouldn't we all snap up this this signed photo of James Whale sight unseen if any of us had £10,832.28 burning a hole in our pocket?
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'My Dog. the Thief' is a pretty terrible 1969 Disney film that was made for TV in America but was released theatrically in Europe, and Japan evidently.
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Come and meet Jeanne Rathbone, Charlotte Booker - and, fingers crossed, moi - on Sunday 13th *July* at one of the Lanchester family's old addresses, 27 Leathwaite Road, Battersea.
Love it, reminds us she was a redhead. She and her mother Edith will be receiving a Battersea Society plaque funded by the O’Pray family on Sunday 13th May at 2pm at 27 Leathwaite Road Battersea with Charlotte Booker and Elsa fans. @battersea_arts @LoveBattersea1 @batterseasoc
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100 years ago today: 'The Gentlewoman' magazine reviewed an exhibition at the @royalacademy, calling Doris Zinkeisen's portrait of Elsa "a brilliant essay in the neo-medieval manner".
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Elsa gives Lloyd Corrigan a comforting hug, watched by Ray Milland and Maureen O'Sullivan, in a publicity still for The Big Clock (1948).
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Here's another interestung one, showing the four principals plus, for some reason, Peggy Lipton (later on The Mod Squad). As far as I can tell from the scant info available, Lipton was only ever in one episode.
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Most posed promo photos for The John Forsythe Show just show John, Elsa and Ann B Davis. This is the first one I've ever seen that also includes the fourth regular cast member, Guy Marks.
May 5, 1965 - Elsa Lanchester (left) will be a co-star of “The John Forsythe Show,” a comedy series to be televised by NBC next season. She will portray the principal of a girls school that is inherited by Mr. Forsythe. In other T.V. news, more plans for color television were
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