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
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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.
You 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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