The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
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Best remembered for her title role in The Bride of Frankenstein, Elsa Lanchester will always be the ultimate woman in horror. But as a British turned American actor who worked on stage, film, and television, there is so much more to Lanchester than the Bride.
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Her role as the title character in Bride of Frankenstein (1935) brought her recognition. She played the lead in Passport to Destiny (1944) and supporting roles through the 1940s and 1950s.
A central joke of the movie build-up was the tag lines: "WHO will be The Bride of Frankenstein? WHO will dare?" Indeed, it was no honeymoon for her. For some ten days, Lanchester was wrapped in yards of bandage and covered in heavy makeup. The stand-on-end hairdo was accomplished by combing it over a wire mesh cage.
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British-born actress whose Bride of Frankenstein has become a cult classic. Born on October 28, 1902, in Lewisham, England; died in December 1986; only daughter and one of two children of Edith Lanchester and James Sullivan (a laborer); attended Mr. Kettle's School, London; married Charles Laughton (an actor), in 1929 (died 1962); no children.
The sequel features Elsa Lanchester in the dual role of Mary Shelley and the bride. Colin Clive reprises his role as Henry Frankenstein, and Ernest Thesiger plays the role of Doctor Septimus Pretorius. Oliver Peters Heggie plays the role of the old blind hermit.
The Bride of Frankenstein is a fictional character first introduced in Mary Shelley 's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus and later in the 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein. In the film, the Bride is played by Elsa Lanchester.
Jan 3, 1999 · Elsa Lanchester plays Mary Shelley and also has the unbilled role of the Bride--where she provides one of the immortal images of the cinema with lightning-like streaks of silver in her weirdly towering hair.
