Of course, everyone knows Elsa Lanchester's iconic (and surprisingly brief, for all it's impact) turn in BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. The monster desired a mate, all right, but she had other ideas! With a hiss and a cracked screech, Elsa's Bride entered the top echelon of classic Universal monsters. She also puttered around a spiral staircase, hobnobbed with glamourous modern-day witches and returned from the dead as a plant woman. Elsa Lanchester's romp through the field of horror:
- THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935)
- THE GHOST GOES WEST (1935)
- THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE (1945)
- BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE (1958)
- BLACKBEARD'S GHOST (1968)
- WILLARD (1971)
- NANNY AND THE PROFESSOR (1971)
- NIGHT GALLERY "Green Fingers" (1972)
Glamour puss!
as the author Mary Shelley
puttering around THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE
with Colin Clive, Boris Karloff & Ernest Thesiger
publicity shot for BELL BOOK AND CANDLE
she returns in NIGHT GALLERY's "GREEN FINGERS"
a new movie poster designed by Martin Ansin
conjuring with fellow witches Kim Novak & Jack Lemmon in BELL BOOK & CANDLE
and I ask you very confidentially "Ain't she sweet"
TODAY'S "WOMEN OF HALLOWEEN" SONG ON MY AUDIO BLOG "BATHED IN THE LIGHT FROM ANDROMEDA" IS "SPOOKY" BY DUSTY SPRINGFIELD
Have you read her biography? Her parents were really quite unconvential - she tells stories of her parents's involvement in the early suffragette movement, her affairs with Parisian dancers, I think she was a nanny for a time? That's before we even hit her film career. And she has such a wonderful voice, like she's telling you this all over drinks. She is a treasure.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I've heard bits and pieces of her story and have always wanted to read her biography. Now I'm gonna have to seek it out!
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