Pals, I've never seen a felm with Elsa Lancaster in which she didn't somehow enhance the movie. I especially enjoyed the fact that, in this one, she helped foil one of her real-life husband's ploys.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
I agree! I've enjoyed her since I was a child, even her small roles as in The Razor's Edge and Mary Poppins.
(By the way, her surname is Lanchester, not Lancaster.)
I've always enjoyed Elsa Lanchester. She was great in this movie. I also loved her and real-life husband Charles Laughton in "Witness For the Prosecution". She was hilarious in an episode of "I Love Lucy" when Lucy and Ethel shared a ride with her to Florida.
shareI find it interesting that in her autobiography she revealed Charles was gay.Aside from that they were both great actors.
When there are two, one betrays-Jean-Pierre Melville
I have a morbid crush for her...
shareShe was quite beautiful, as well, as Mary Shelley in "Frankenstein".
shareBeauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder, but next to The Bride, yes she looked better. As to her husband being gay, this is extremely old news, well known at least in Hollywood in the day. He also had very strange sexual habits, which are gone into in detail in Full Service by Scotty Bowers. I have heard that somehow this twisted Elsa's habits and she routinely attempted to seduce young gay men who happened upon her home to see her husband, and apparently sometimes with success.
"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
You don't really believe Scotty Bowers' pornographic novel, do you?
share___Give me a good reason not to believe the Bowers book. He was there, were you? You can't go through life calling everyone a liar simply because you cannot accept the storyline! His information on Laughton certainly lines up with what others have said independently. Now, exactly what proof can you supply to backup your own pathetic theory.
shareShe was perfect in this film, really funny and one of the best things about the film.
shareshe was one of the many good things about this, so funny and charming
the scene where she's blackmailing Stroud over the portrait is hilarious
so many movies, so little time
Yes, she was great, and so was her son, Burt.
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