While best known as the Bride of Frankenstein, Elsa Lanchester (1902-1986) also played Anne of Cleves in The Private Life of Henry VIII, Katie Nanna in Mary Poppins, the eccentric painter in The Big Clock, and the British cleaning lady who tries to kill Hitler in Passport to Destiny. She was twice nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award and also enjoyed an extremely distinguished stage career. Mara Wilson is an actor, a playwright, and the author of Where Am I Now?
"A book every actor should read." --Mara Wilson, from her
foreword
"A very special person tells a special tale of an extraordinarily
special life and she tells it brilliantly in her own special way."
--Vincent Price
"A wise, witty and at times deeply touching autobiographical
account of the life of the English gamine who grew up to be one of
Hollywood's most delightful comediennes and the wife of one of its
greatest, and most tortured, actors. Elsa Lanchester tells without
fear or favor how she and Charles Laughton managed--and ultimately
came to rely upon and take refuge in--the uneasy marriage that
Charles' homosexuality placed in jeopardy almost from the day it
began. Here are all the fascinating people Elsa associated with in
the course of her fabulous career--and the unflinching record of
the unbreakable strength that permitted one who accurately
describes herself as 'a survivor' to create for herself an
individual life and career that have given her a permanent place in
the list of filmdom's greatest actresses." --Allen Drury, author of
Advise and Consent
"The story of a remarkable woman and even more remarkable marriage,
told in an engaging, straightforward, unaffected style."
--Publishers Weekly
"Reading Elsa Lanchester, Herself allowed me to have a renewed
interest and respect for the talented actress who will forever be a
part of the beloved Universal Monsters and their continuing
popularity." --Pop Culture Guy
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