Elissa Landi
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Elissa Landi (December 6, 1904 – October 21, 1948) was an Italian born actress who was popular in Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s. Rumoured to be a descendant of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, she was noted for her aristocratic bearing.
Born Elisabeth Marie Christine Kühnelt in Venice, Landi was raised in Austria and educated in England.
Her first ambition was to be a writer, and she wrote her first novel at the age of twenty. She would return to writing during lulls in her acting career. She joined the Oxford Repertory Company at an early age, appearing in many British and American stage successes.
During the 1920s she appeared in British, French, and German films before travelling to the United States to appear in a Broadway production of A Farewell to Arms. She was signed to a contact by Fox Film Corporation (later 20th Century Fox) in 1931.
She played the heroine in Cecil B. De Mille's The Sign of the Cross (1932), but was overshadowed by Claudette Colbert who played the flashier role of Poppea. She was paired successfully with some of the major leading men, such as David Manners, Charles Farrell, Warner Baxter, and Ronald Colman in romantic dramas such as Body and Soul (1931) before appearing in the box office hit The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) with Robert Donat.
Her contract with Fox was abruptly cancelled in 1936 as a result of her refusal to accept a particular role. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer signed her to a contract and after a couple of romantic dramas she played the cousin of Myrna Loy in the very popular After the Thin Man (1936). After only two more films she retired, in 1943.
She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1943, and dedicated herself to writing, producing six novels and a series of poems.
She died from cancer in Kingston, New York, and was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
Elissa Landi has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 1615 Vine St.
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Como Actor/Actriz
The Count of Monte Cristo
Mercedes
El signo de la cruz
Mercia
After the Thin Man
Selma Forrest Landis
Enter Madame
Lisa Della Robbia
Corregidor
Dr. Royce Lee Stockman
Underground
Nell
Mad Holiday
Peter Dean
The Yellow Ticket
Marya Kalish
A Passport to Hell
Myra Carson
The Woman in Room 13
Laura Ramsey
Body and Soul
Carla
By Candlelight
Marie
The Masquerader
Eve Chilcote
The Warrior's Husband
Antiope
Koenigsmark
Princess Aurore
The Thirteenth Chair
Helen Trent
I Loved You Wednesday
Vicki Meredith
Man of Two Worlds
Joan Pemberton
Wicked
Margot Rande
Hollywood Party
Herself - the Hostess
London
Alice Cranston
Always Goodbye
Lila Banning
Without Regret
Jennifer Gage
The Amateur Gentleman
Lady Cleone Meredith
Devil's Lottery
Evelyn Beresford
Synd
Kersti
Bolibar
Françoise-Marie / La Monita
The Great Flirtation
Zita Marishka
The Price of Things
Anthea Mary Dayre
Knowing Men
Korah Hurley / Collette