Trivia of Elsa Lancaster

 Trivia of Elsa Lancaster (28 October 1902 - 26 December 1986)

*As a child, Elsa had a great desire to become a classical dancer. When she was 10 years old, her mother enrolled her at the famed Isadora Duncan’s Bellevue School in Paris.Later, Elsa Lanchester started her career as a Dance Teacher at 12 in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England.

*She made her stage debut in 1922 in the West End play Thirty Minutes in a Street.Her first film appearance was in 1925 in an amateur movie by friend and author Evelyn Waugh called The Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama.

Her formal film debut was in the British movie One of the Best (1927).

*Met future husband Charles Laughton while acting in the play "Mr. Prohack" in 1927.Elsa and Charles were married in 1929 and remained married until his death in 1962.She came to Hollywood with Laughton in 1932, but not permanently until 1939. MGM offered her a contract in 1932.

*At least ten days, she was wrapped in yards of bandage and covered in heavy makeup for her role in Bride of Frankenstein (1935). The iconic hairdo was accomplished by combing it over a wire mesh cage! Her eyes were kept taped wide open for long takes.

*She was a trendsetter in her nightclub days. She's the one who introduced the androgynous ballet tights, top hat and high heels combination. Lanchester later claimed that Marlene Dietrich stole her look and used it without crediting her.

*Lanchester received top billing in Passport to Destiny (1944) for the only time in her Hollywood career.She play as leading role named Ella Muggins who travels from London to Berlin and manages to obtain a job as a cleaning woman at Adolf Hit*er's headquarters.

*Lanchester was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress twice in her career. Once was for Come to the Stable (1949) and the second time was for Witness for the Prosecution (1957). Although she did not win an Oscar, she did win a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in 'Witness for the Prosecution'.